Welcome to the United Kingdom and Ireland Marcé Society site (or UKIMS)

Annual Meeting, September 19th 2013 The Athenaeum Club, 107 Pall Mall, London, SW1Y 5ER. Click here to Read More.

Click Here to view the January 2013 UKIMS Meeting Minutes

The Best of Perinatal Mental Health Research and Clinical Practice

· Join us in our new central London venue to hear about the latest developments in perinatal mental health research and practice
· Free registration and lunch for Marcé Society members – visit www.marcesociety.com to join (only £40). You can also join on the day.
· Key-note speaker Naomi Eistenstadt (first director of Sure Start)
· New research session and clinical updates
· A great opportunity to present your research or clinical service developments - even if at an early stage
· Places are limited and need to be booked in advance
· To book your place or to submit a request for a presentation slot please email as soon as possible to:
Prof Vivette Glover: v.glover@imperial.ac.uk

 

Please vote for the charity: Families Need Fathers Both Parents Matter Cymru. We work to help both parents have meaningful involvement in their children's lives if the parents separate. We believe children have the right to know that both parents love them. ( It's one of the UN rights for children )

We reckon that roughly one breakdown in three that we see has been caused by the mother having a post-natal illness which has not been identified.

We intend to raise awareness of the problem so hopefully more medical professionals, more social workers, more people involved in the family judiciary system and more importantly more ordinary family members, husbands, grandparents, aunts and uncles are able to recognise that mum could be ill and actually needs medical help not a divorce or separation.

This scheme would be a pilot one but hopefully will lead to every post-natal team in Britain having trained expertise in post-natal illnesses and what support is needed in the team.

Although the voting procedure is a pain, please spend the time voting because this project should deliver more happy children which has to be good news. We'd also be grateful if you could pass this e-mail on to your friends and family and ask them to vote too.

http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/4074

takes you to a page with our project and at the top of the page you have to click register.

Follow the instructions and register. Make sure you write down the password you've put in when registering.

You get sent an e-mail to confirm you have registered properly. You have to click on the link to confirm you are you!

Trot back to the page
http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/4074

at the top of the page you can now click log in

Once you have logged in you will be allowed to vote.

 

ABOUT US

UKIMS was formed in 2004 when it was decided that although the Marcé Society was represented across the globe there was no actual British and Ireland Society. The first President, Dr Alain Gregoire created a multi-agency Executive Committee, with members from non-government organisations, midwifery, psychiatry, psychology and health visiting. Regional co-ordinators were also appointed to represent the views of members throughout the UK and Ireland.

 

Since its conception UKIMS has gone from strength the strength and the membership is steadily increasing. The differing levels of fees means there is the opportunity to subscribe to the scientific journal ‘The Archives of Women’s Mental Health’, which has proved a valuable resource for both researchers and practitioners.  The Newsletter Perinatal Perspectives is produced twice yearly and contains the news and views of members.

There have been UKIMS conferences South Wales, Devon, Cornwall, Nottingham and joint conferences in the South of England. Future conferences are planned for Sheffield and Southampton. There is an annual scientific meeting in London and the venue provides a safe and assuring platform for young, new academics and researchers to present their work.

The major strengths of UKIMS and the Marcé Society are the friendliness and camaraderie which pervades throughout. Eminent psychiatrists debate and discuss their work with novices; professors share their thoughts with clinicians and practitioners. Everyone is passionate about perinatal mental health and wants to make the difference  which will improve the mental health for mothers, their infants and their families.

 

OFFICERS

Michael Craig – Chair UKIMS 2012-Current

Dr Michael Craig, BSc(Hons), MB BS, PhD, MRCOG, MRCPsych
Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London
Consultant Psychiatrist, Female Hormone Clinic, Maudsley Hospital

Dr Craig is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London and visiting Professor at Edge Hill University (www.edgehill.ac.uk). He is also an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist within the National Services Directorate at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. In addition to a broad training in general adult psychiatry he has specialist experience in the management of mental health problems of women across the reproductive spectrum and is Clinical Lead of the Female Hormone Clinic at the Maudsley Hospital. He is a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists & Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was previously awarded a Clinical Training Fellowship by the MRC(UK) to fund his PhD into the effects of female sex hormones on the brain. He is currently using brain imaging to study the effects of maternal stress and mental illness on infant brain development.

http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/staff/profile/default.aspx?go=11134&local=True

Dr Ian Jones – Past Chair UKIMS 2010 - 2012

BSc, MBBS, MSc, MRCPsych, PhD
MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University

 

Dr Ian Jones is Senior Lecturer in Perinatal Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in the Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University. Graduating from St Georges Hospital Medical School, London, he trained in general medicine and psychiatry in South Wales and on obtaining membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists began research training in the Neuropsychiatric Genetics Group at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Training Fellowship to study the genetics of Puerperal Psychosis in Birmingham and spent a year as a visiting research fellow at the Medical College of Virginia, USA. Prior to his appointment in Cardiff he was Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. His main research interest is molecular genetic approaches to the study of affective disorders in general and puerperal psychosis in particular. He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications and book chapters in the fields of mood disorder genetics and perintatal psychiatry. His main clinical interest is developing services to identify women at risk of severe postpartum episodes.

 

http://medicine.cf.ac.uk/en/person/dr-ian-richard-jones/

 

Sue Smith - Vice Chair UKIMS

 

Sue Conroy -  Treasurer UKIMS

Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London

Sue originally qualified as a social worker and undertook several studies of social work practice in the field of child protection, before moving on to study mothers and babies in the community. She began work as a researcher in the Section of Perinatal Psychiatry at the IOP in 1997, when the section was led by Professor Channi Kumar, a key figure in the development of perinatal psychiatry. It was a privilege and an inspiration to work as a researcher in his team at the IOP and on the Mother & Baby Unit at the Bethlem Royal Hospital and to meet his many collaborators and colleagues from around the world.

 

Since joining the section, Sue has undertaken studies of parenting assessments and the effects of perinatal psychiatric disorder on the social and emotional development of babies and children. Her main interest is in the development and provision of effective perinatal psychiatric services.

 

 

 

Vivette Glover – Executive Committee Member UKIMS

Vivette Glover is currently Professor of Perinatal Psychobiology at Imperial College London. She was trained as a biochemist at Oxford and did her PhD in neurochemistry at University College London. She then moved to Queen Charlotte?s Maternity Hospital, London. In more recent years she has applied her expertise in biological psychiatry to the problems of mothers and babies. In 1997 she set up the Fetal and Neonatal Stress Research Group. The aims are to study fetal and neonatal stress responses, methods to reduce them, and long term effects. The effects of psychopathology in the mother, both on the developing fetus and longer term on the child are also being studied. This is a new field for study, and one which involves linking obstetrics, paediatrics, psychology and psychiatry.

 

Recent projects of interest include studies characterising the stress responses of the fetus, and the first trial of analgesia in the fetus; studies showing that maternal antenatal stress or anxiety increases the risk for a range of emotional, behavioural and cognitive adverse outcomes for the child; and studies showing possible mechanisms by which maternal stress or anxiety may affect the development of the fetus. This work is showing the importance of the fetal period, and the emotional state of the mother during pregnancy, for the later neurodevelopment of the child. She has published over 400 papers.

 

Ian Jones - Executive Committee Member UKIMS

 

Susan Pawlby - Executive Committee Member UKIMS

 

Alain Gregoire - Executive Committee Member UKIMS

 

 

Louise Howard – Executive Committee Member UKIMS

Louise Howard is Professor of Women’s Mental Health and Head of the Section of Women’s Mental Health in the Health Service and Population Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. She also works as a consultant perinatal psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley Foundation NHS Trust.

Her PhD focussed on the outcome of pregnancy in women with severe mental illness, using epidemiological methods as part of a Wellcome Trust Training Fellowship. She has been Principal Investigator for several RCTs evaluating the effectiveness of interventions for women with mental illness, including an HTA funded trial of treatments for postnatal depression. Her current research includes NIHR funded studies investigating domestic violence and mental health, and the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of perinatal psychiatry services.