Dr Mohammed Abbas  FRCPsych, M.Med, Sci.,MB ChB

Medical Director

Mo is Consultant Psychiatrist and Honorary Associate Professor, Leicester University.

His Research interests include Suicide: The development of  a new scale of eliciting the meanings (motives) of suicidal/self-harming behaviour, the first author of the first report of the Iraqi National Study of Suicide. Schizophrenia: co-authored a new evolutionary theory of schizophrenia (Abed and Abbas, 2011) Case formulation (CF) in psychology and psychiatry: led the development of a new model of psychiatric CF.  Published more than 28 papers in pier reviewed journals, list is found here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Abbas-5/research

Mo received awards and recognitions including Winner of the Royal College of Psychiatrist’ award: Psychiatrist Volunteer of the Year 2015;  Shortlisting of University of Leicester (in collaboration with Kufa Medical School) to the Times Higher Education Awards in 2017 (international impact award); Tedx Leicester Talk ( change is a journey ) in 2016https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPQNfBKzjVg