André Tylee

André Tylee holds the Chair of Primary Care Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. He oversees the primary care research program for the Institute and for the Maudsley Hospital in London. As a general practitioner in Sutton, Surrey, his main research interest is the management of clinical depression in primary care.

He is also chair of the primary care program of the National Institute of Mental Health in the UK and holds an honorary chair in the Department of General Practice at Monash University.

Tylee is the founder of "Trailblazers," a training and leadership program in which general practitioners, nurses, and other primary care workers join a partner from a specialist mental health team to work on a project to improve their local mental health services. [http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/departments/?locator=367&context=790 "Trailblazers"] , King's College, London.] The program has over than 600 graduates in England and is being extended to the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand. [http://www.anu.edu.au/aphcri/Domain/PHCPerformance/PIDGP/Reviewers.php "Expert reviewers: André Tyler] , Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute.]

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