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Henrietta Bowden-Jones

Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones OBE (born 27 April 1964) is a medical doctor, Psychiatrist, Honorary Professor at University College London[8] and Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow, Dept of Psychiatry at Cambridge University.[9]

Henrietta Bowden-Jones
Alma materUniversity of Pavia
Doctorate in Medicine Imperial College London
Senior House Officer Rotation: Charing Cross Training Scheme (Imperial)
Specialist Registrar Rotation: Charing Cross and St Mary’s Training Scheme (Imperial)
AwardsOBE (2019)
Winner of the Royal College of Psychiatrists ‘Psychiatrist of the Year’ Award.[1]
National Health Service Women Leaders Award[2]
National Council on Problem Gambling Joanna Franklin Gambling Treatment Award[3][4]
Women of Achievement Award Health[5]
Royal College of Psychiatrists Public Educator of the Year Award (finalist)[6]
The Times Best Doctors in Britain[7]
Scientific career
InstitutionsHonorary Senior Visiting Research Fellow in Psychiatry 2020 - ongoing, Cambridge University
Honorary Professor 2019 - ongoing, University College London
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer 2008-2019, Imperial College London

In 2008 she founded and became Director of the National Problem Gambling Clinic, the first centre to treat gambling disorder. This clinic remained the only centre of its kind for 12 years and has been inundated by thousands of referrals since its opening in 2008. Now it holds an extensive national database on pathological gambling.

In 2019 she was advisor to NHS England on the 10 year Long Term Plan for Gambling Disorder. The original clinic she had founded and run for over a decade was commissioned as the template for another 15 NHS funded clinics designated to the treatment of gambling Disorder. One of these became the Young People's Gambling services also run from the same central site under Henrietta's leadership.

In 2019 with NHS funding, she founded the National Centre for Gaming Disorders, the first NHS centre to treat Gaming Disorder following the inclusion of this addiction in the new International Classification of diseases (ICD 11). The National Centre for Gaming Disorders, part of CNWL NHS Trust, treats people as young as 13 and in its first year significantly over-performed the planned commissioning targets set by NHS England.

In 2019 Henrietta Bowden-Jones was also appointed as Honorary Professor at University College London Division of Psychology and Language Sciences.[8]

In 2020 she became Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow, Dept of Psychiatry at Cambridge University.[9] Henrietta co-founded the National UK Behavioural Addictions Research Group, based in the Dept of Psychiatry. The group has brought together researchers with expertise in different spheres of behavioural addictions ranging form neurobiology to epidemiology and clinical research.

She is now the Director of the newly established NHS funded Centre for Behavioural Addictions overseeing the work of both the National Problem Gambling Clinic and the Centre for Internet and Gaming Disorders.[10][11][12][13][14][15]

Immediate President of the Medical Women's Federation ( 2018–2020).[16]

Current President of the Royal Society of Medicine Psychiatry Section.[17] 2020-2022 and Royal Society of Medicine Trustee 2021–2024.

Royal College of Psychiatrists Spokesperson for Behavioral Addictions.

Henrietta Bowden-Jones was appointed as a board member of the Howard League Crime and Problem Gambling Commission [18] 2019–2022

Bowden-Jones appointed as a board member on the Board of Science Committee British Medical Association. (2021–2024)

Early life and education

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Bowden-Jones was born in Turin, Italy to an Italian mother and British father.[19] She studied medicine at the University of Pavia.[19] Bowden-Jones specialised in psychiatry on the Charing Cross Hospital Psychiatry Rotation at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. She earned a Doctorate of Medicine in neuroscience at Imperial College London.[19] Her postgraduate research focuses on the ventromedial prefrontal cortex of alcohol dependency, using computerised neuropsychological assessments including the Cambridge gamble task.[19]

Career

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Bowden-Jones has worked in Addiction Psychiatry for all of her NHS consultant career, starting with running the Soho Rapid Access Clinic for homeless opiate addicted patients to running the NHS addictions inpatient facility in central London for alcohol and all drug addictions for many years before moving to the field of Behavioural Addictions and opening the two national centres.

She is a co-opted member (Behavioural Addictions) of the Faculty of Addictions at the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

She was a Trustee of Sporting Chance Clinic 2007 - 2015 and a Trustee of Action on Addiction 2017–2020

In 2008 she established the Problem Gambling Consortium, a UK-wide collaboration that investigates the neurobiology and the clinical underpinnings of gambling disorder, the research published from the group is available on Researchgate.[20][21]

Her approach has been described as "innovative and experimental" as she trialed the use of Naltrexone and Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.[22] The National Centre for Behavioural Addictions also supports family members who struggle with the results of problem gambling and gaming disorder.[22]

In the 2019 New Year's Honours List she was made an Officer of the British Empire for her work in addiction treatment and research.[23]

In 2021 she has been called on as an expert in the field to advise the All Party Group on Reducing Harm Related to Gambling in Northern Ireland and the Welsh Task and Finish Group on Gambling Harm.[24]

In December 2023, Henrietta Bowden-Jones was appointed by the Crown to support the Lord Lieutenant of Greater London Sir Kenneth Olisa OBE and assigned to serve in the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Awards

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Books

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References

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  1. ^ "RCPsych Awards 2020: Lifetime achievement award".
  2. ^ a b "Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones receives #NHS70 Award for powerful women - CNWL NHS". Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Trust psychiatrist wins prestigious US award - CNWL NHS". Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Award History | National Council on Problem Gambling". www.ncpgambling.org. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones". Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  6. ^ a b "News - CNWL NHS". Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  7. ^ a b Grainger, Lisa (13 November 2010). "Britain's top doctors: Mental health". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  8. ^ a b "Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones". Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  9. ^ a b "Cambridge University beckons for the National Problem Gambling Clinic's Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones". Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  10. ^ "NHS to help gambling addicts as young as 13". 24 June 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  11. ^ Ford, Jonathan (19 July 2019). "The troubling legacy of Britain's gambling experiment". Financial Times. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  12. ^ Hymas, Charles; Wright, Mike (27 February 2019). "Gaming giants should be forced to provide "self-exclusion" for addicts to take time out, says Royal College of Psychiatrists". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  13. ^ Bowden-Jones, Henrietta (11 January 2019). "Turning the tables on gambling tech". Financial Times. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  14. ^ "Why young people worry about internet addiction". acast. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  15. ^ Marsh, Sarah (22 June 2018). "NHS to launch first internet addiction clinic". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  16. ^ "Who's who?". Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  17. ^ "Psychiatry Section". Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  18. ^ "Commissioners". Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  19. ^ a b c d "Interview: substance misuse and addiction psychiatrist Henrietta Bowden-Jones «". Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  20. ^ "Home - Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones FRCPsych, BA(Hons), DOccMed, MD(Imperial)". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  21. ^ "Research and Books". Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  22. ^ a b Gentleman, Amelia (6 June 2016). "Inside the NHS's only specialist gambling clinic". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  23. ^ "New Year Honours – Dedicated NHS Staff at CNWL recognised - CNWL NHS". Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  24. ^ "Bacta Contributes to APPG Discussion". Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  25. ^ "Deputy Lieutenant Commissions | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  26. ^ "RCPsych Awards 2020: Lifetime achievement award". www.rcpsych.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  27. ^ Raffray, Nathalie. "New Year's Honours: Brent health chief and hospital's gambling addiction expert made CBE and OBE". Kilburn Times. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  28. ^ "New Year Honours – Dedicated NHS Staff at CNWL recognised - CNWL NHS". Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  29. ^ a b "Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones". Imperial College London. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  30. ^ "Harm Reduction for Gambling: A Public Health Approach, 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  31. ^ "Gambling Disorders in Women: An International Female Perspective on Treatment and Research, 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  32. ^ Are We All Addicts Now?: Digital Dependence: Amazon.co.uk: Vanessa Bartlett, Henrietta Bowden-Jones: 9781786940810: Books. ASIN 1786940817.
  33. ^ A CLINICIAN'S GUIDE TO WORKING WITH PROBLEM GAMBLERS. Routledge. 2015. ASIN 0415732859.
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