Dean's Grand Rounds
What are the Dean's Grand Rounds?
The 萝莉视频 Dean's Grand Rounds is a free webinar series that brings together clinicians, academics, and people with lived experience to explore challenges in clinical practice. The Dean's Grand Rounds aim to bridge the evidence-practice gap through an evidence-based, data-informed, and experience-driven approach.
Aims
The Dean's Grand Rounds aims to:
- Narrow the gap between education and practice;
- Empower clinicians to use data to understand and address challenges in their communities;
- Embed lived experience in clinical education and learning;
- Promote Quality Improvement (QI) approaches that are systematic, data-driven, and collaborative.
Together, these sessions help participants see how a problem-focused, data-informed approach can lead to meaningful change in mental health care.
Session Structure and Format
The Dean's Grand Rounds focuses on understanding a problem or opportunity for change through three lenses:
- Experience - insights from people with lived experience, carers and staff.
- Evidence - what research and best practice tells us.
- Data - contextual information that shows what's happening in practice.
By combining these perspectives, we explore how to bridge the evidence-practice gap and embed improvement.
Format: 90 minute webinar with Q&A and interactive discussion.
Audience: Open to all.
Collaboration and Values
The Dean's Grand Rounds is guided by Collaboration, Inclusion, and Learning.
Each session is developed jointly by 萝莉视频 Faculties, Special Interest Groups (SIGs), Regional and International Divisions and partner organisations (where possible).
We place a strong emphasis on:
- The voice of lived experience;
- Problem-focused inquiry;
- Data-driven understanding;
- Shared learning from both success and challenge.
Our Team
Contact us here.
Professor Subodh Dave
Professor Subodh Dave was elected as Dean of the 萝莉视频 in 2021 and will hold the role until 2026. He has overall responsibility for setting standards for and facilitating the effective delivery of psychiatric education and training. He works as Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist in Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation Trust and is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Bolton. He is passionate about ensuring that training, assessment structures and CPD (Continuing Professional Development) programmes lead to improvements in patient care and clinical outcomes.
Dr Deepa Bagepalli Krishnan
Dr Deepa Bagepalli Krishnan is a Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist and Medical Quality Improvement (QI) Lead at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. She is also a part-time PhD student at the University of Nottingham. Deepa’s professional interests lie in quality improvement, leadership development, and medical education. Passionate about embedding QI principles into clinical practice, she has coached and led multiple award-winning projects that have delivered sustainable improvements at both regional and national levels.
Bethany Shaheir
Bethany Shaheir works in the Events Team at the 萝莉视频. As the lead for the Grand Rounds within her team, she coordinates the planning and delivery of the series.
Submit an Expression of Interest
If you are interested in delivering a Dean's Grand Rounds webinar, please submit a proposal
The team will be in touch with you if we wish to take your proposal forward, and we can meet to discuss next steps.
If you have any questions, please email Bethany Shaheir.
Past Feedback
99% of attendees said that their 'Overall experience' at a Dean's Grand Round was 'Good' or 'Excellent', with 69% saying it was 'Excellent'.
Read more comments from attendees:
"Rich panel perspectives which I could have listened to for a long time. Given me some good ideas to support colleagues as well as patients. Very good."
"The testimony from a patient was [a] good idea to hear directly from service users."
"I loved how the cases made learning vivid, how the voices across disciplines enriched the dialogue, and how the interaction turned it into a true exchange of wisdom."
"Very thought provoking...Will look to learn from the webinar to change my practice."
Upcoming Sessions
Human rights concerns around addressing mental health of refugees and people seeking asylum: gaps, perspectives, and actions - Thursday 15 January 2026, 4.00pm - 5.30pm
Special Committee on Human Rights in collaboration with the RCPsych Working Group on Mental Health and Forced Migration explore the human rights implications of addressing the mental health needs of refugees and people seeking asylum.
In the UK, people seeking asylum and refugees make up around 13% of the immigration population. this group experiences higher rates of psychological disorders which are exacerbated by unmet social needs. Mental health and social care services are however poorly equipped to provide appropriate care for this population. A national survey of UK-based psychiatrists showed that less than half the psychiatrists who responded considered themselves to possess adequate knowledge to trat patients from this group.
The Grand Round will aim to explore the human rights implications of this treatment gap, hear directly from advocates and service users, and offer actions to support psychiatrists in developing and maintain the necessary skills to address the treatment gap.
Past Sessions
This symposium provides a practical overview of Gambling Disorder, including recent advances in research, policy, and practice.
Chair: Dr Lade Smith, speakers: Professor Sam Chamberlain, Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Mr Steve Watts, Dr Konstantinos Ioannidis
This webinar describes the epidemiology of rising ketamine misuse and explain the consequences. It also outlines clinical responses and how to develop services. Talks cover: psychopharmacology, prevalence & adverse effects; Ketamine use in the community – case series including psychiatric vulnerabilities; Ketamine detoxification and severe dependence; developing a community ketamine service; and, developing an integrated service for ketamine users.
Speakers: Saul, Dr Emily Finch, Dr Irene Guerrini, Dr Faye Graver, Dr Stephen Kaar, Dr Tracey Myton.
The webinar, as part of the Dean's Grand Rounds, will explore the essential role of spirituality in mental health care. Recognising that spiritual beliefs and practices often shape patients' experiences of illness, suffering, and recovery, we will aim to equip clinicians with practical tools to take a compassionate, culturally sensitive spiritual history.
Smoking rates remain greatly elevated among people who use mental health services and is a [historically-neglected] source of profound health inequality. The NHS Plan correctly prioritises smoking cessation and this is a great opportunity to do something about this.
Researchers from the University of the York led the largest ever trial of a smoking cessation intervention in mental health services [the SCIMITAR trial]. In Bradford we have used evidence about ‘what works’ to drive culture change and to reduce health inequalities. Helping people who use mental health services to quit safely and effectively is central if we are to close the gap that exists in life expectancy.
Hear from research leaders and change agents working in the City of Culture 2025 [AKA Bradford]. Learn how we can move smoking cessation from ‘rhetoric to reality’.
Exposure to and engagement in psychotherapeutic practice is central to person-centred compassionate good medical care and essential for psychiatric practice within the bio-psycho-social model and NICE guidance for the treatment of mental health problems and burn-out prevention.
This webinar discusses the results of a survey carried out to capture the views of our members about their experiences in everyday clinical practice and the opportunities available to employ and develop their psychotherapeutic knowledge and skills.
The desired outcome is reconnecting psychiatry to the bio-psycho-social model. In the long term, the hope is to deepen training, research and practice of psychotherapeutic and relational models within psychiatry. This is essential for future-proofing psychiatry, improving patient outcomes and retaining psychiatry by enhancing the meaningful aspects of their roles.
How should psychiatrists successfully advocate to impact policy and instigate change?
Although the context of the presentation is on people with intellectual disability, the challenges related to multi-morbidity is relevant for all mental health professionals.
The grand round started with a presentation by an expert by experience and then explored the evidence base for the management, population level challenges as well as discussion of a currently ongoing research project on multi-morbidity which uses artificial intelligence in improving our knowledge and management of these conditions.
This webinar took place on Zoom from 4.00pm-5.30pm on Thursday 30 November 2023.
Overview
Mental health services for the elderly are not readily available in many developing countries, and there is a shortage of geriatric psychiatrists. This is a growing concern as the number of ageing people in these countries is increasing, and non-communicable risk factors associated with dementia, such as diabetes, uncontrolled hypertension, and obesity, are on the rise. Although general psychiatrists, neurologists and family physicians are available, their numbers are small, and they cannot provide comprehensive care for patients with dementia. In this regard, primary care services are better placed to deliver dementia services in low- and middle-income countries. The primary care workforce, including general practitioners and nurses, can be trained to offer holistic care for dementia patients and refer them to psychiatrists. This task-shifting is necessary to triage, treat, and address co-morbid medical and psychiatric disorders among patients with dementia. Moreover, it can provide links to community public health services to reduce risk factors, raise awareness and help communities to take care of patients with dementia.
In collaboration with the World Network of Psychiatric Trainees.
Speakers
- Dr Djibril Moussa MD Msc, Atlantic fellow in global brain health, memory and aging center, department of neurology, UCSF, San Francisco, USA Department of psychiatry, Borama Hospital, Borama, Somaliland.
- Dr Chandrima Naskar, Associate Specialist, Psychiatry, Tata Main Hospital; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Manipal Tata Medical College, Jamshedpur, India.
- Dr Margaret Isioma, Consultant Psychiatrist, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Plateau State, Nigeria.
- Co-chair - Dr Victor Pereira-Sanchez, MD, PhD, Director of Global Fellowships, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Global Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the Child Mind Institute.
- Co-chair - Dr Sanya Virani, Assistant Professor, Associate Programme Director- Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship, Department d Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts, USA.
Overview
The webinar aimed to offer the opportunity to present a case of severe catatonia in an intensive care unit with a rapid and complete response to ECT, and to incorporate the service user's views. The webinar hoped to provide delegates with an European overview of the awareness and knowledge of catatonia among psychiatrists, a review of the literature of ECT as treatment for psychiatric conditions including catatonia, and to also discuss current attitudes towards ECT.
Programme
- Introduction and welcome to the webinar
- 'Patient experience/ Case presentation' - Dr Myles Doyle
- 'Awareness and knowledge of catatonia and how to recognise it among psychiatrists' - Professor Gabor Gazdag
- 'National UK data in usage and outcomes of ECT for catatonia' - Professor Linda Van Diermen
- 'Attitudes towards ECT in Norway and current trends and updates on ECT' - Dr Eivind Aakhus
- Q&A
The second webinar in our series of free #DeansGrandRounds webinars was titled 'Memory Clinics: Where are we with timely, accurate diagnoses? Are we ready for emerging new treatments in Dementia?' and took place on Thursday 24 November 2022.
The Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry and the Northern and Yorkshire Division teamed up to explore:
- Patient/Carer perspective - why we need early diagnosis of dementia?
- Current data and how that can help drive change
- Local initiatives
- QI question: timely accurate diagnosis; access to neuroimaging and high-quality reports; and access to post diagnostic support
There was a Q&A session at the end.
The first webinar in our series of free #DeansGrandRounds webinars was titled 'Improving the management of alcohol dependence for patients admitted to Mental Health Inpatient Units' and took place on Thursday 16 June 2022 from 4.00pm – 5.30pm.
The Faculty of Addictions Psychiatry and the West Midlands Division teamed up to examine the loss of addiction expertise in psychiatry. The issue is particularly timely as the requirement of the new GMC curriculum (starting August 2022) is for all CT1-3 trainees to demonstrate competence in the assessment and management of addiction.
The webinar explored the project in detail and included a presentation of PoMH data from 14 a,b,c) management of alcohol withdrawal in IP units and trends since 2014. An overview of local data sets was also presented.
Speakers and panellists included: Professor Subodh Dave, Professor Julia Sinclair, Dr Ed Day and Gemma, Dr Zafar Iqbal, Dr Renarta Rowe, Dr Rowena Jones and Kerry Webb, Dr Alina Braicu, Dr Deepa Bagepalli Krishnan, Dr Derrett Watts, Dr Muhammad Gul, and Dr Abdul Raoof.
Staff working in healthcare settings experience significant work-related mental health distress. An interplay of a number of personal, occupational and socio-environmental factors results in high rates of burnout and mental health problems amongst physicians.
This session of Dean’s Grand Rounds focused on exploring and understanding this problem through physician experience, case studies and local data. The session also focused on some unique challenges in low and middle income countries and barriers to seeking mental health support amongst physicians.
We heard about an innovative approach developed in the , India to enhance physician wellbeing.
In South Africa, the prevalence of perinatal depression is as high as 32%, meaning that almost 1 in 3 pregnant women have some form of perinatal mental illness. Despite this alarming statistic, there are still limited perinatal mental health services available and there is poor screening during the antenatal period for common perinatal mental health problems.
Pregnant women with mental illness go on to have poor maternal, obstetric, and neonatal outcomes; however, this experience is not unique to South Africa. Globally, racially and ethnically minoritized women disproportionately experience poor perinatal mental health care as a result of various factors, including stigma and psychosocial determinants of mental illness. Overall, this results in increased morbidity and mortality for the mother and baby, which is poorly documented and researched.
Public health awareness, education, and screening is often skewed towards ensuring physical safety outcomes, without consideration of integrating mental health supports in perinatal services and well-baby spaces. This webinar focuses on how to address the challenges of providing integrated perinatal and infant mental health services in resource-constrained settings by highlighting clinical, educational, and research opportunities in South Africa.