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It’s time for the final keynote speaker of the 2025 CANDDID Conference! We’d like to say a huge thank you to all attendees, speakers, and organisers for another brilliant conference #CANDDIDConf25

Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities: A Focus on Mental Health Matters my parting words as EIC it was a privilege to lead the journal thank you to our AEs onwards and upwards! ⁦JMHRID⁩ ⁦NADD⁩ ⁦Marce Tenoria⁩ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New paper!! On risk assessment for violence. Super thread 👇 - interesting and novel findings on what clinicians made of risk score and why. Relevant to suicide risk assessment, esp in psychosis.

🆕 Long-term segregation and seclusion for people with an intellectual disability and/or autism in hospitals: critique of the current state of affairs: commentary, Quinn et al w/ ⁦Angela Hassiotis ([email protected])⁩ ⁦Psychiatry of ID⁩ JMHRID ⁦NADD⁩ cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Why segregation can not be s therapeutic option for mental ill health & behaviours of concern in #ID and #autistic ppl

Sophie Levitt will be presenting the results of the VIG-LD trial testing the feasibility for an effectiveness evaluation with parents of children with a learning disability in CAMHS Angela Hassiotis ([email protected]) CTRCardiffUni Michael Absoud The Challenging Behaviour Foundation

We have now recruited over 150 dyads of adults with learning disability and their carers to the PETAL main trial! 1⃣5⃣0⃣🎉We are grateful to everyone who has decided to join us. Noclor NHS Research Office Angela Hassiotis ([email protected]) Priment Clinical Trials Unit

Nice!!!!! Thank you ⁦Kate Oulton⁩ for including me in this ⁦National Institute for Health and Care Research⁩ funded study! ⁦UCL Psychiatry⁩

Upcoming 1 day online event ☀️RADiANT Research Consortium ☀️ and The Royal Society of Medicine event 8/5/25 Great speakers: Dheeraj Rai Centre for Developmental and Complex Trauma Rory Sheehan Dr Kamalika Mukherji Angela Hassiotis ([email protected]) Jana_DeVilliers ayomipo AMIOLA Regi Alexander rsm.ac.uk/events/intelle…

Excellent The BMJ article on the future of academic medicine some of which is applicable to mental health/#psychiatry bmj.com/content/bmj/38…

🆕 What works, how and in which contexts when using digital health to support parents/carers to implement intensive speech and language therapy at home for children with speech sound disorder? A realist review 👉🏻well done to PhD student #NaomiLeafe 👏👏 journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

W/ colleagues from Ulster University & Queen's University Belfast 🎓 Jill Titterington Naomi Leafe

Brilliant achievement and thanks to Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)🌈 for continuing to consolidate the workforce pipeline. The quality of our current resident doctors is also the best I can remember. Our challenge is to improve their work conditions so that more than 50% complete to CCT. Let’s do it!

Full article: Pharmacists’ Perspectives on Deprescribing Psychotropic Medicines in People with Intellectual Disabilities tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🆕 Congrats to my colleague Bhathika Perera UCL Psychiatry for successfully leading a ROK-UK funded collab to develop smart clinical trial solutions for ppl w/ ID and #autistic ppl National Institute for Health and Care Research Vaso Totsika limnk 👉🏻 nihr.ac.uk/news/7-uk-repu…

🆕 Hear Our Voice: A Photo‐Elicitation Study to Explore the Social Participation of Older People With Mild/Moderate Intellectual Disability ⁦Gill Livingston⁩ ⁦⁦Angela Hassiotis ([email protected])⁩ ⁦Zuyu Wang⁩ ⁦Andrew Sommerlad⁩ ppl onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ja…

Very interesting to hear the voices of people with intellectual disability and see the photos they took of social participation. They told Zuyu Wang they enjoy social participation but avoid and fear people without intellectual disability because of past experiences of abuse.

Mysterious heart syndrome targets post-menopausal women – and doctors don’t know why -men & women need to know more abt this ⁦National Institute for Health and Care Research⁩ has funded a treatment trial apple.news/AbW_S7dqgQbKs6…

👉🏻 🆕 The Mental Health Bill (2025) for England and Wales re #id and #autism here we go again ⁦Angela Hassiotis ([email protected])⁩ ⁦Professor Rohit Shankar⁩ ⁦Bhathika Perera⁩ ⁦✨alexandra✨⁩ et al thank you ⁦Peter Joseph Beazley⁩ for coordinating this important statement cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Congrats to all!! Well deserved!