Rate My Professor Najma Siddiqi

Najma Siddiqi is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of York, in a joint appointment with the Department of Health Sciences and the Hull York Medical School, where she serves as a member of the Centre for Health and Population Sciences. She holds qualifications including MBChB from the University of Birmingham, MRCP, MRCPsych, and PhD from the University of Leeds. Previously recognized as a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, she now leads the Mental Health and Addiction research group within the Department of Health Sciences. Her research specializations encompass physical and mental illness comorbidity, with particular emphasis on diabetes in severe mental illness via the DIAMONDS programme (Diabetes and Mental Illness Improving Services and Outcomes), funded by NIHR Yorkshire & Humber CLAHRC, and delirium prevention in care homes through projects such as the PITSTOP study, a pilot cluster randomised trial funded by NIHR Research for Patient Benefit. Additional focuses include the development and validation of the 4AT delirium triage tool (NIHR HTA), investigation of the Delirium Observation Screening Scale for care home staff (NIHR Research for Patient Benefit), and culturally appropriate mental health interventions for black and minority ethnic populations, exemplified by the ROSHNI-D trial for postnatal depression in British mothers of South Asian origin (NIHR HTA).