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Professor David Taylor
Professor David Taylor is the Director of Pharmacy and Pathology at the Maudsley Hospital, Professor of Psychopharmacology at King’s College, London, UK and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology.
He has been the lead author of the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines since their inception in 1993. The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines have sold over 300,000 copies in fourteen editions and twelve languages.
David is the Co-author of the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines (2024) and Author of around 450 clinical papers in journals such as the Lancet, BMJ, British Journal of Psychiatry and Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. These papers have been cited over 25,000 times.
He is a member of the UK Department of Transport expert panel that introduced drug-driving regulation and currently a member of the UK government’s Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs.
David is the only pharmacist to have been made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Professor David Taylor is the Director of Pharmacy and Pathology at the Maudsley Hospital, Professor of Psychopharmacology at King’s College, London, UK and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology.
He has been the lead author of the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines since their inception in 1993. The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines have sold over 300,000 copies in fourteen editions and twelve languages.
David is the Co-author of the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines (2024) and Author of around 450 clinical papers in journals such as the Lancet, BMJ, British Journal of Psychiatry and Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. These papers have been cited over 25,000 times.
He is a member of the UK Department of Transport expert panel that introduced drug-driving regulation and currently a member of the UK government’s Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs.
David is the only pharmacist to have been made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
