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Professor Ian Everall was appointed Executive Dean of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) in September 2017. He has been the forefront of research into cellular, molecular and genetic changes in the brain in major psychiatric disorders for more than 20 years.

Professor Everall trained in psychiatry at the Bethlem and Maudsley hospitals. Previously Cato Chair of Psychiatry and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, he obtained his MBChB at Leicester University School of Medicine.

In 1989 he obtained membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a MRC clinical research training fellowship, followed in 1992 by an advanced MRC clinician scientist fellowship in the Department of Neuropathology, Institute of Psychiatry.

Professor Everall gained his PhD in 1992 and in 1993 was appointed as a senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry and an honorary consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital. He was appointed Professor of Experimental Neuropathology at the Institute of Psychiatry in 1999 and in 2004 became Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego.