Professor of the Day- Professor Jonathan Green, Psychiatry, University of Manchester

Professor Jonathan Green did his general medical training in Cambridge and University College London, then trained in Paediatrics and Developmental Paediatrics at Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Nuffield Hearing and Speech centre and the Thomas Coram Foundation; before Child Psychiatry in Oxford and Manchester.

He has a long standing clinical and research interest in autistic spectrum disorders. He runs a Regional Specialist Social Development Clinic undertaking assessment and treatment innovation with ASD and other impairments of social development.

He co-led the UK’s first study in to ICD Asperger Syndrome and has published on social and language development in autism, co-morbidity and treatment intervention. Currently Professor Green leads a number of clinical trials into child and adolescent mental health interventions; including the MRC Preschool Autism Communication Trial (PACT), which is a large early intervention RCT for autism. His other interests are in the methodology of treatment trials, in which he works in an MRC study to develop better methods of measurement and causal analysis; therapeutic alliance and treatment process, in which he investigates non specific aspects of treatment effectiveness; and developmental studies into the consequences of early parent child relationships for child social development.

He serves on the Editorial Boards of Advances in Psychiatric Treatment and European Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and on the NW advisory Board of the Mental Health Research Network.

For more information please head to the University of Manchester, School of Medicine website.