Dr Toby Pillinger
NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow, IoPPN KCL | Clinician, Maudsley Hospital SLaM
Dr Toby Pillinger is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, and a clinician at the Maudsley Hospital, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He is a member of both the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, with a strong focus on the overlap between physical and mental health.
Toby studied Medicine at the University of Oxford, graduating with distinction, before undertaking medical training at the Hammersmith and Royal Brompton Hospitals, where he obtained Membership of the Royal College of Physicians. He later completed a PhD at King’s College London, focusing on cardiometabolic health in serious mental illness and the physical side‑effects of psychiatric medication.
He has published extensively on strategies to improve the physical health of people with psychosis and was awarded the British Association for Psychopharmacology Award (2019) for outstanding research in clinical psychopharmacology. Alongside Professor David Taylor and Dr Fiona Gaughran, he co‑edited The Maudsley Practice Guidelines for Physical Health Conditions in Psychiatry (Wiley Blackwell, 2020), a sister volume to the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines.
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