Dr Rachel Thomasson is a consultant Neuropsychiatrist based at the Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences, one of the largest tertiary neurosciences centres in the UK.

Rachel graduated from UCL’s MB-PhD programme in 2007. Her PhD research was focused on visual cognitive function after epilepsy surgery. Her psychiatry training was based in London and Manchester, with specialist posts in liaison psychiatry and neuropsychiatry. She has a broad based practice with collaborative links across clinical neurosciences (neurology, neurorehabilitation, neurosurgery, neurometabolic medicine, genomic medicine and neuro-oncology). Her specialist interests are centred on neurocognitive disorders, organic hallucinosis and psychiatric symptoms in rare disease.

She is the vice chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists faculty of neuropsychiatry and current initiatives centre on embedding neuropsychiatry teaching in psychiatry training programmes across the UK, developing training fellowships and improving access to neuropsychiatry in neuroscience centres.

Extracurricularly, fine wine, cake of any description and trail running provide some semblance of work:life balance.