Dr Kathryn Abel  MA MBBS MRCP MRCPsych PhD

Kathryn Abel is a Senior Lecturer & Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the University of Manchester and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. She is lead researcher for the Centre for Women's Mental Health Research Manchester.  She has a particular interest in women with schizophrenia and the outcomes of their offspring; the effects of sex on risk for neurodevelopmetnal disorder; the effect of prenatal exposures on fetal, childhood and adult mental health outcomes. She was an author of Into the Mainstream:a policy document for the Department of Health addressing the mental health needs of women. She has developed a practical guide to the implementation of woen only day services for LITs and PCTs.

Kathryn is a member of the Psychosis Interest group. Her interests include:

• The mortality and morbidity of offspring exposed to parental mental illness in a population database usisng the Danish Research Registers.
• Reassessing birth weight in schizophrenia; a longitudinal examination of the effects of sex, seasonality, migration and urbanicity in the Danish population.
• Risk of obstetric, neurodevelopmental, forensic and adult psychiatric outcomes in the offspring of women explosed to periconceptional death of a first degree relative using the Danish population databases
• The effect of maternal age at first birth on maternal and offspring outcomes using the Danish National Databases.
• Women who kill: homicidal and infanticidal women and their pathways to care 
• Women in prisons
• RESPOND (Randomised Evaluation of antidepressants and Support for women with POstNatal Depression); A comparison of antidepressant and psychological therapy for PND in the community.

1983 BA (Oxon.) 2:1 (Neurosciences/Biophysics)
1986 MB BS (London)
1986 ECFMG (American Board Examination)
1989 MRCP Part I (UK)
1990 MRCP Part II (UK)
1992 MRCPsych Part I
1993 ECFMG renewal
1994 MRCPsych Part II
1996 Institute of Family Therapy Certificate
2001 Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training General Adult Psychiatry
2003 PhD: Exploring non-dopaminergic mechanisms in schizophrenia (University of London)
2005 Postgrduate Teaching Certificate part I (U of Manchester)