Professor Tom Sensky
BSc PhD MB BS FRCPsych
Consultant Psychiatrist

Tom has recently retired as Professor of Psychological Medicine at Imperial College. He continues to work part-time as a member of the Health at Work Team within West London Mental Health NHS Trust, assessing healthcare professionals and other staff presenting with mental health problems. He regularly contributes to Fitness to Practise panels at the General Medical Council, as specialist advisor on psychiatry, and has also carried out psychiatric assessments for fitness to practise for the General Medical Council, the General Dental Council, the Bar Council, and the General Chiropractic Council.

The main focus of Tom’s clinical work is currently in stress and mental illness associated with employment, but he also has extensive clinical and research experience in the psychological aspects of chronic illness, both physical and mental. He has approximately 160 publications.

Tom has applied cognitive therapy in his clinical practice for more than 25 years, having been in the first cohort of clinicians trained in cognitive therapy at the Institute of Psychiatry in London.  For his clinical and research work in cognitive therapy, he was elected a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He is also past President of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine.

He is a member of the Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board, and has worked with colleagues at the Department of Work and Pensions on numerous aspects of mental well-being and employment.

Tom has been very actively involved in teaching at all levels, from teaching undergraduate medical students to the continuing professional development of consultants. He has been Deputy Director of Continuing Professional Development of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has a particular interest in evidence based medicine, and for some years contributed to the Oxford evidence based medicine workshops. He is also a member of the International Network of Person-Centred Medicine, a group of clinicians and medical academics working to modify the currently common focus on biomedicine and aiming to put the person at the centre of the medical consultation.

Tom has also had considerable involvement in clinical governance.  He has been Director of Clinical Excellence of the London Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and has contributed serious incident inquiries, including three independent inquiries into homicides by people under the care of mental health services. He has also contributed to the analysis and interpretation of national audits of prescribing by psychiatrists. 

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