Tamsin Ford
British psychiatrist
Tamsin Jane Ford (born 17 September 1966) is a British psychiatrist specialising in children's mental health. Since 2019 she has been based at the University of Cambridge, where she is now professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, head of the Department of Psychiatry and fellow of Hughes Hall. She has been heavily involved with the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management (TCM) programme, created by Carolyn Webster-Stratton, which aims to raise and improve children's mental health in primary schools across Devon. Her work also ties in with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), created by UK psychiatrist, Robert Goodman.
Education
Ford received a MB BS from United Medical Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's, University of London in 1990. As a junior doctor in 1991–1992, she held posts at Guy's and Lewisham Hospital (surgery), Orpington Hospital (medicine), King's College Hospital (A&E) and Royal London Hospital (eldercare). She began her core professional training in psychiatry in 1992, passing her MRCPsych examination in 1995. She was then appointed senior registrar in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with the Bethlem and Maudsley NHS Trust, obtaining a CCST in 1998.
Between 1995 and 2005, Ford did her fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London while working in the Clinical Research Worker Department at King's, as well as holding clinical posts at Great Ormond Street Hospital (Tourette's Clinic and Epilepsy Surgery Clinic) and Maudsley Hospital (National and Specialist OCD Clinic). Ford received a MSc (distinction) in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2000, followed by a PhD in 2004 with the thesis "Services for Children with mental health disorders: rates and predictors of specialist service use".
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