BAP Co-Opted Member Details
Co-Opted Council Member: Dr Sasha Gartside, PhD
Newcastle University. sasha.gartside@newcastle.ac.uk
Council Member until 2011
Since 1999 Sasha Gartside has been a Lecturer in Biological Psychiatry at Newcastle University. She graduated in Pharmacology from the University of Liverpool in 1986. She moved to Oxford University where she worked under Phil Cowen, first as a research technician and later as a MRC Research Student. Following the completion of her DPhil (1991), she was awarded an MRC Training Fellowship to work with Trevor Sharp in Oxford. In 1999 she moved to Newcastle University to take up a position as lecturer.
Much of her research career has been devoted to addressing issues at the clinical/basic interface of psychopharmacology. For the last 10 years her work has had two general themes: i) understanding factors which influence the neurochemical responses to acute and chronic antidepressant treatments; and ii) understanding the neurobiology of aetiological factors (e.g. early life stress and HPA axis abnormalities) in the pathophysiology of depression.
She is active in several teaching programmes. As well as teaching pharmacology and physiology to undergraduates at Newcastle University, she also teaches neurosciences and psychopharmacology to trainee psychiatrists as part of the Northern Deanery MRCPsych course. Since 2004 she has contributed to the BAP ‘Fundamentals of Psychopharmacology’ courses, and last year helped to revise the accompanying book. She also contributes to the new BAP ‘Masterclasses in Psychopharmacology’.
She has been a member of the BAP for over 20 years and has been a regular at summer meetings presenting many short oral communications and posters. In 1999, she was delighted to be awarded the BAP Preclinical Prize for Psychopharmacology. She has published several papers in the Journal of Psychopharmacology and frequently acts as a referee for the journal. She has always encouraged her students and junior colleagues to become active members of the BAP. She is committed to the BAP’s mission to foster research and teaching in the field of psychopharmacology and believes that as a member of Council she can contribute to the delivery of these goals.
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In 2009, BAP contributed to the Medical Research Council’s Review of Mental Health Research. The Report has recently been published. A summary report may be found here; MRC Mental Health Research Summary Report. Professor Barbara Sahakian, who will become BAP President-elect later this month, has written an article in the Lancet “A UK strategy for mental health and wellbeing”, also available here; Lancet article