Professor Matthew Hotopf appointed Deputy Executive Director at King's Health Partners and Chief Academic Officer for South London and Maudsley

Professor Matthew Hotopf CBE has been appointed Deputy Executive Director at King's Health Partners (KHP) and Chief Academic Officer for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

Matthew is a Professor of General Hospital Psychiatry, a consultant liaison psychiatrist, and Executive Dean at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London. He has been awarded a CBE for services to Psychiatric Research and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine's 2016 Wayne Katon Research Award. He is also a NIHR Senior Investigator and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Through his new roles as Deputy Executive Director at KHP and Chief Academic Officer for South London and Maudsley, Matthew will play a critical role in working with Professor Graham Lord, KHP's Executive Director and Chief Academic Officer for King's College London, to create opportunities for effective clinical academic integration across KHP's partners. He will also play a vital role in ensuring mental health and an integrated mind and body approach to healthcare remains front and centre in senior leader decision-making.

I am pleased to undertake this role and will work to ensure that KHP delivers on its promises to integrate mental and physical healthcare and ensure we deliver the best for our patients and communities across all programmes.

Professor Matthew Hotopf, Executive Dean at IoPPN

We are delighted to have Matthew take on the critical role of Deputy Executive Director in our senior leadership team, helping to strengthen clinical academic integration across our partners while ensuring equal value is placed on mental and physical health. Matthew joins King's Health Partners at a critical time too, as we develop our KHP 2030 strategy. His new positions within KHP and South London and Maudsley will help us achieve more - and have greater impact for those in need. I look forward to our working together.

Professor Graham Lord, Executive Director at King's Health Partners

We're delighted to have Matthew help us shape the KHP 2030 strategy, working with partners to ensure we draw on the latest evidence, and strengths of all our partners, to make a real difference to the outcomes for the communities we serve.

Dr Catherine French, Director of Strategy at King's Health Partners

Matthew's exceptional clinical and academic knowledge of mental health will ensure the integration of mental and physical healthcare throughout the work of the partnership so together we can drive innovation, education and collaboration to improve holistic patient care.

David Bradley, Chief Executive of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust