Ted Dinan

Biography

  Professor Ted Dinan is a clinical psychiatrist with an extensive research background, and is one of co-founders of Atlantia Food Clinical Trials. He is Professor of Psychiatry at University College Cork, and a Principal Investigator in the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, where his main research interests are in the biology of depression, psychological stress and functional bowel disorders, cognition and mood. He is a medical graduate from UCC and obtained his PhD in Pharmacology from the University of London.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Psychiatrists and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.  Before returning to Cork, Ted was Chair of Clinical Neurosciences and Professor of Psychological Medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London.  Prior to that, he was a Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin. 

Research Interest

 health system and global health