Kathryn Abel
Kathryn M. Abel FRCP FRCPsych is a British clinical psychiatrist, specialising clinically in resistant schizophrenia and gender-specified service developments. She is a clinical academic, professor of psychological medicine and Director of both the Centre for Women's Mental Health and the CAMHS.Digital research unit at the University of Manchester.
She is a European Research Council Fellow and National Institutes of Health Research Senior Investigator. She is the NIHR National Lead for Mental Health Lead and a member of the Academic Faculty Executive at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She served as a member of the NICE Appraisal Committee C between 2008-2018.
Her research focusses on maternal condition, maternal early environment and how it influences brain development and later cognitive ability of offspring. She focusses on sex differences and gender-specific approaches in research and in service development.
She is co-editor of a number of textbooks including 'The Female Mind' and Comprehensive Women's Mental Health.
