The Team

The Editorial Base at The University Of Nottingham acts as the hub for a worldwide group of Professors, Doctors, Researchers and Assistants.

Clive Adams - Clive.Adams@Nottingham.ac.uk

Professional background Born in rural Ulster, educated in Belfast. Qualified in medicine in Queens University, Belfast in 1983, after two years of casualty and surgery began psychiatry in Bradford. Completed training in the Guys, London. After a research year undertook epidemiology MSc in the London School of Hygiene in Tropical Medicine. Founded the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group entity whilst at Oxford University, has seen successful periods both at Oxford, Leeds and is now residing in Nottingham. Proud partner to Leila and father to Sam and Beth.

Job duties: The work of the Coordinating Editor is to keep everything in the group moving. I help reviewers, editors, Administration/Coordinators and Trial Search Coordinators and any of those doing research with the group in order that they complete their tasks as sufficiently and smoothly as possible. This generally involves working alongside the Trial Search Co-ordinator to ensure that the searches are comphrensive and as efficiently undertaken as is possible, helping the trial locator physically acquire studies. Seeking funding is essential in order to keep the group going, working alongside reviewers and the other editors to help steer the group. Another part of my job is to help disseminate this work partly by academic papers and also oral presentations.

Claire Irving - Managing Editor (ME) - Claire.Irving@nottingham.ac.uk (Please note Claire is not based at the Editorial Base)

Responsibilities include: •The monthly compilation and submission to The Cochrane Library of the CSG module containing all titles, protocols and reviews. •Co-ordination of the CSG editorial process. •Development and implementation of the operating guidelines of the group, keeping abreast of changes in Cochrane policy and communicating these to editors, review authors and collaborators. •Maintaining good working relationships with organisations that contribute to the work of the group. •Facilitation at training programmes/workshops for review authors and training authors/editors/staff in review production and Cochrane-specific software. •Attendance at national and international meetings/colloquia as the representative of the group. •Planning /monitoring grant income and expenditure; Producing annual reports and funding bids to The Cochrane Collaboration and Department of Health

Angelique Bodart - Editorial Assistant and Website Administrator

Position Vacant - Trials Search Coordinator (TSC)

Jun Xia - Research Assistant - Jun.Xia@nottingham.ac.uk

Stephanie Sampson - Systematic Reviewer - Stephanie.Sampson@nottingham.ac.uk

Editors

Editors' Role

A key editor, assigned to the review team from the very start of their work, works alongside those reviewers. He supports them as they produce the protocol, the review, replies to comments and criticisms. He also helps them maintain their review in light of new evidence.

The exception to this the role of the criticism editor who specifically works on incoming written appraisal of the reviews. She works with the authors of the comments in order to structure their work for publication on The Cochrane Library. The criticism editor also liaises with the relevant key reviewer and editor to make sure that the comment(s) are adequately addressed.

Evandro Coutinho - esfcoutinho@ensp.fiocruz.br

Evandro is a researcher working in the Department of Epidemiology at the National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Besides his work with the CSG, he is carrying out studies on risk factors for falling among the elderly (which includes the use of psychotropic drugs) and the use of capture-recapture methodology to estimate incidence of several diseases using incomplete datasets.

Lorna Duggan - lornaduggan@yahoo.co.uk

Lorna works as a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist in Developmental Disabilities in a charitable hospital (St Andrew's) in Northampton. She runs a 16-bedded medium secure unit for men with mild/borderline learning disability.

Stefan Leucht - Stefan.Leucht@lrz.tu-muenchen.de

Stefan studied medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilian Universität München. Since then he has worked as a doctor at the Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie of the Technische Universität München, Germany. Besides his contributions to the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group he is carrying out randomised controlled trials about clinical aspects of schizophrenia treatment and pharmacogenetics.

Prathap Tharyan - prathap@cmcvellore.ac.in

Prathap Tharyan is Professor of Psychiatry at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, and Coordinator of the South Asian Cochrane Network. Is an editor with the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group, a reviewer and co-reviewer with other Cochrane collaborative review groups, and Coordinator of the South Asian Cochrane Network. These are not paid posts, but he has received funding from the Cochrane Collaboration and from John Wiley and Sons to host a meeting of the South Asian Cochrane Network and from the Cochrane Collaboration to attend annual colloquia. He also has a great singing voice. 

John Davis - jmdavis@psych.uic.edu

John's research interests include the Drug treatment of schizophrenia, mania, depression, premenstrual dysphoric disorder; biology of major mental illnesses and meta-analysis. He is at present the Gilman Professor of Psychiatry and Research Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is widely involved with many Editorial Boards and National Advisory Committees in the United States and his achievements include being a Tele Award Finalist 1976 for an educational video on Movement Disorders. (Somewhat similar to an Emmy award for TV or Academy Award for Film but for the category of educational-industrial film.) It is a great honour to have John involved with CSG.

Chunbo Li - licb@mail.tongji.edu.cn

Chunbo studied medicine at Shanghai Tiedao Medical College, Shanghai, China. He obtained his M.D. at Shanghai Second Medical University. He works as a psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry, Tongji Hospital of Tongji University in Shanghai. Besides his work with Cochrane Schizophrenia Group, he is carrying out research on successful basic and clinical studies of ageing and anxiety disorder. His other interests include clinical epidemiology, outcome measure of psychiatry service, etc.

Mahesh Jayaram - Maheshbj@gmail.com

Mahesh is a consultant psychiatrist working with the Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust, Leeds. Apart from his clinical work as a community general adult psychiatrist and work with the CSG, he is involved in developing collaborative trials of SMS message prompting to reduce non-attendance rates in outpatient clinics, pilot study of reducing readmissions to hospital, appraising rapid tranquillisation guidelines across English speaking countries and working on a project looking at gender differences for age of first onset of schizophrenia. He also continues to be actively involved in developing mental health services in Zambia and co-ordinates medical student electives in low and middle income counties.

Active Reviewers