Professor Golam Khandaker
PhD, MRCPsych, MPhil, MBBS
Current positions
Professor of Psychiatry
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
Golam Khandaker is Professor of Psychiatry at Bristol Medical School, Head of Immunopsychiatry and Experimental Medicine Programme at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Parthership NHS Trust. Golam's research focuses on identifying and validating novel immunological mechanisms and potential treatment targets for major psychiatric disorders particularly depression and schizophrenia using epidemiological cohort studies, genetic analysis, and early-phase clinical trials. The key impetus for this work is to move immunotherapies closer to psychiatric practice through innovative translational research. He is also interested in life-course epidemiology of mental disorders, physical and psychiatric multimorbidity especially aetiology, early detection, and prevention of cardiometabolic disease in people with schiozophrenia and depression, and use of routine clinical data for health research.
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Professor of Psychiatry
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Publications
Recent publications
01/02/2021Dissecting the Association Between Inflammation, Metabolic Dysregulation, and Specific Depressive Symptoms
JAMA Psychiatry
Longitudinal Trends in Childhood Insulin Levels and Body Mass Index and Associations With Risks of Psychosis and Depression in Young Adults
JAMA Psychiatry
Association between common early-childhood infection and subsequent depressive symptoms and psychotic experiences in adolescence
Psychological Medicine
Association between prenatal maternal infection and disordered eating behaviours in adolescence
Psychological Medicine
Assessment of the Role of IQ in Associations Between Population Density and Deprivation and Nonaffective Psychosis
JAMA Psychiatry