Dr Dele Olajide, PhD, FRCPsych, FRSA is a biopsychosocial psychiatrist who until his recent retirement was Associate Medical Director and Consultant Psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust one of the Academic Health Science Centres in the United Kingdom. He is an academic clinical psychopharmacologist and adult psychiatrist with special interests in the management of psychosis, anxiety and affective disorders. As Associate Medical Director (clinical informatics) he led in the digitisation of the health records in one of the largest psychiatric health services in Europe.
He graduated from the University of Ibadan Medical School before coming to the UK to undertake his postgraduate psychiatric training at the renowned Maudsley Hospital followed by his academic research training at the world class Institute of Psychiatry in London. It was an honour to serve as a consultant psychiatrist and senior lecturer in both institutions.
Dr Olajide is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Royal Society of Medicine, Royal Society of Arts and an International Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
He has vast experience in the field of mental health with special interest in the health of ethnic minorities in the UK. He has worked extensively with churches and mosques in southeast London in developing mental health promotion strategies and providing training in early recognition and referral of mental illness for barbers, hairdressers and faith leaders. He developed the curriculum for cultural competence and taught this at medical undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
He has also been involved in health policy as a Senior Medical Adviser in the UK Department of Health where he advised ministers from both Labour and ConservativeGovernmentss in his capacity as the lead for Ethnic Minority Mental Health Policies as well as liaising with the Medical Royal Colleges, GMC and Royal College of Nursing.
He has also served as honorary Senior Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for Transport.
He has contributed to and developed numerous services for ethnic minority mental health. He has given many public lectures, made media appearances and published two books and numerous articles. In particular, Dr. Olajide developed the award-winning Cares for Life project which became the model on which the National Improving Access to Psychological Therapies was based.
Dr Olajide beliefs in the therapeutic efficacy of the arts and has collaborated with actors and artists in co creating innovative programmes for mentally ill patients.
Dr Olajide supports several charities and is currently, chair of the Board of trustees of The Advocacy Project a charity providing advocacy for people suffering from mental illness and learning disability in London.
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