Kapil Sayal

Biography

After completing undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Medicine, Kapil undertook a combined clinical and academic training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry. He was awarded a Health Services Research Training Fellowship investigating pathways to care for children at risk of ADHD and was subsequently appointed as a Clinical Lecturer. He completed his PhD during this period and received 3 awards marking a significant achievement in research for work based on his PhD, including the 2003 Royal College of Psychiatrists Research Prize. He was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 2005 and promoted to Reader in 2012 and Professor in 2014.

Research Interest

Dr Sayal's research interests include developmental epidemiology, Health Services Research, and child and adolescent mental health in schools and primary care. He carries out epidemiological research in ADHD and the neuro-developmental consequences of prenatal alcohol exposure. His programme of Health Services Research includes intervention research that aims to improve the identification of and outcomes for children and young people with mental health problems in primary care and school settings. He led a DH-funded follow-up of an RCT investigating the impact of school-based interventions for attention and hyperactivity problems on children's outcomes and access to services. He was the Nottingham lead on an NIHR HTA-funded RCT (PROMISE) of a school-based CBT intervention to prevent depression in high-risk adolescents. Currently, he is leading the e-DASH study in the NIHR CLAHRC East Midlands (http://www.clahrc-em.nihr.ac.uk/clahrc-em-nihr/research/enhancing-mental-health/edash-study.aspx) and is a co-investigator on the 'Listen-Up' study' funded by the Department of Health (www.listen-up.ac.uk)