Alan Currie

Dr Currie is a Consultant Psychiatrist in the Regional Affective Disorders Service in the North East of England and visiting professor at the University of Sunderland in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences. He is Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Sports and Exercise Psychiatry Special Interest Group (SEPSIG) and a member of the International Society for Sport Psychiatry (ISSP) and chair of the ISSP Scientific Committee. Over a 20-year period he has acted as a consultant to United Kingdom Anti-Doping in Sport (UKAD) and other national sports organisations and supported them in developing practice guidelines and educational materials. He has published on a range of sports psychiatry topics including editing an award winning handbook of Sports Psychiatry for clinicians and overseeing the 2007 UK Sport guidelines on eating disorders.