EPI Developmental Lab
The lab includes a multi-disciplinary team of child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychiatrists, psychologists, engineers, experts in machine learning and artificial intelligence, and statisticians.
The lab is led by Professor Samuele Cortese.
EPI Members
Professor Samuele Cortese, NIHR Research Professor
Dr Miguel Garcia Argibay, Senior Research Fellow
Dr Alessio Bellato, Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Sulagna Roy, Senior Research Assistant
Joshua Hyde, Senior Research Assistant
Dr Anoop Kaden
Dr Christos Christogiannis
External Members
Marco Solmi, MD, psychiatrist, PhD, is Associate Professor and Director of Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Canada, Medical Director of On Track First Episode Psychosis program and of the Eating Disorders program, The Ottawa Hospital, Scientist, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine Berlin, visiting academic at University of Southampton, School of psychology and King's College, IoPPN, Psychosis Department, UK, and affiliate at the Stanford University METRIC center. He is Chair of ECNP Physical And meNtal Health (PAN-Health) Thematic Working Group (TWG), and member of the others European and Canadian psychiatric associations. He is interested in meta-research and epidemiology, to study prevention/early interventions, psychopharmacology, and physical health in those with mental disorders.
Corentin Gosling
Corentin Gosling is an Associate Professor of Neuropsychology at Université Paris Nanterre. He is also a visiting researcher at University of Southampton. One of his research interests focuses on the diagnosis and clinical interventions for people with neurodevelopmental disorders, as well as on developing new methodological and statistical tools for evidence synthesis.
Dr Gonzalo Arrondo
Gonzalo Arrondo has experience in neuropsychology, functional neuroimaging, evidence-based medicine, and more generally in empirical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. His current interests are wide, but they pivot around the study of decision-making processes, evidence-based psychology and psychiatry, and, on a more theoretical level, epistemology of psychiatry. He is in charge of some of the projects of the Mind-Brain group, and also lends support to the design and execution of empirical studies.
Dr Anneka Tomlinson BSc (Hons), MPhil, BM BCh, PhD is a Clinical Academic Psychiatry Fellow working at the University of Oxford with an interest in adult ADHD. Dr Tomlinson completed Graduate Medicine at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford and currently works in Thames Valley. She began her career by completing undergraduate studies in Clinical Sciences (BSc Hons) at the University of Bradford and went on to complete a PhD at the University of Manchester in Adult ADHD. Her PhD focused on the on the neurocognitive and emotional processing deficits in adults with ADHD and the effects of ADHD treatment. She has also held a position as Honorary Lecturer at the University Manchester for over 5 years, assisting with supervision and teaching students. Dr Tomlinson’s research interest is targeted individualised treatment in mental health, particularly ADHD and mood disorders. She is passionate about developing treatment algorithms incorporating patient preferences to personalise treatment for mental health disorders. Dr Tomlinson manages the Oxford Precision Psychiatry Lab (OxPPL) with Professor Andrea Cipriani and has published widely in the field of mental health. She teaches doctors, academics and clinicians and assists in the supervision of graduate students.
Dr Katherine McGinn BSc, MB BS, MA, MRCPsych is a research fellow funded by NIHR ARC Wessex and supervised by Professor Cortese. She is currently working on a meta-analysis on registered clinical trials of unlicensed pharmacological products for adult psychiatric indications. This follows publication of her previous systematic review with Professor Cortese on registered clinical trials for unlicensed CAMHS products. Katherine is a higher trainee in Medical Psychotherapy and General Adult Psychiatry.
Katherine has longstanding interests in pharmacology and evidence synthesis. For several years she worked for the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Her work there included assessment of licensing and pharmacovigilance procedures across the full product life cycle, specialising in paediatric medicines and borderline products (medical devices with a pharmacologically active component). After leaving MHRA, Katherine held several director roles in the software industry.
Affiliate Members
Visitors
Lucie Jurek
Lucie Jurek, MD, PhD, is an academic visitor at the University of Southampton, a lecturer at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France, and a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Hospital Le Vinatier, Lyon, France. She is also affiliated with RESHAPE (RESearch on HeAlth PErformance), INSERM U1290, Lyon, France. Her main clinical and research interests are neurodevelopmental disorders. She has worked on the usefulness of qualitative research and qualitative evidence synthesis for evaluating complex interventions. Her current research projects are primarily focused on evaluating interventions and their implementation in the fields of autism and ADHD using mixed-methods research.
Mikail Nourredine
Mikail Nourredine, MD, PhD student in biostatistics, is currently working at the University Hospital of Lyon in the Biostatistics and Clinical Pharmacology departments, where he designs clinical trials. His primary research interests include clinical trial design and causal inference, with a current focus on developing external control groups using routinely collected data for clinical trials.
Former Members
Dr Lucrezia Arturi
Dr Lucrezia Arturi, Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist is a PhD candidate in Neuroscience and conducts her clinical and research activities at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry service of the University Hospital “Tor Vergata” of Rome, Italy (Chief: Professor Luigi Mazzone), with a specific attention to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Her main research interests are around neurodevelopmental disorders, with a particular focus on the study and application of non-invasive brain stimulation techniques (tDCS, tACS, tNS) in the context of different neuropsychiatric conditions such as ASD and ADHD.
Dr Irem Ece Eraydin, Research Fellow
Contact us
Contact Tanya Palmer BA (Hons), MA
EPI Research Administrator at [email protected].