Dr Sean Cross
Consultant Psychiatrist
Sean Cross is a consultant psychiatrist with interests in self-harm and suicide prevention, trauma and the complex interplay between mental and physical wellbeing. He has a number of roles in the NHS:
- Employed by the Maudsley and works clinically at King’s College hospital in the mental health liaison team
- Clinical Director for the Mind and Body programme in King’s Health Partners, the aim of which is to enhance integration across mental and physical healthcare: kingshealthpartners.org/our-work/mind-and-body
- Managing Director of Maudsley Learning: maudsleylearning.com and Director of the national award winning BMJ Education Team of the Year 2018, Maudsley Simulation: maudsleysimulation.com
- Visiting Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, at King’s College London
He graduated from medical school at the University of Edinburgh, completed his training in Edinburgh, Sydney and London; attended grad school to study International Relations at the University of Cambridge and completed his doctorate in social and cultural psychiatry at the IoPPN, King’s College, London. In 2012 he won the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ national ‘Trainer of the Year’ award