Dr Holan Liang
Assistant Research Professor and Consultant Paediatric Neuropsychiatrist
Holan Liang is an assistant research professor and Consultant Paediatric Neuropsychiatrist with honorary Consultant contracts at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Northeast London Foundation NHS Trust (NELFT). She is also the Department of Health and Social Care GIRFT Children and Young People’s Mental Health Neurodevelopmental Lead working nationally with NHS teams to improve service delivery.
She has been Honorary Associate Professor at UCL GOS Institute of Child Health and Clinical Research Fellow at The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. She was formerly psychiatry lead of the national specialist tic service at Great Ormond Street Hospital and has over 15 years’ consultant experience in specialist child and adolescent psychiatry. She was Workforce Lead on the Royal College of Psychiatrists Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Faculty Executive Committee between 2019-2023.
Her interest is in neurodevelopmental disorders including autism, ADHD, Tourette’s syndrome and intellectual disability, their overlap and their co-occurrence with physical health conditions. She is involved in clinical research including clinical trials (SATURN Study, STAR-AIMS, ATTENS), national and international genetics studies (TS2000, TicGENETICS) and international collaborations (Functional Tic Like Behaviours European Collaborative Group).
She has taught undergraduate and postgraduates in neurodevelopmental disorders for over 15 years at King’s College London and University College London and peer reviews proposals and papers for NIHR and the BMJ. She has written for The Guardian, The Telegraph and RED Magazine. Her current research relates to autism presentations in the paediatric hospital setting.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6650-9449
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