Gabriel Ivbijaro MBE JP

Professor Ivbijaro is a specialist in Integrated Care and Primary Care Mental Health, with expertise in service re-design. He co-edited Integrating Mental Health Into Primary Care: A Global Perspective in collaboration with World Health Organization and World Organization of Family Doctors in 2008 and has participated in a range of mental health transformation projects including being the Royal College of General Practitioners representative on the Royal College of Psychiatrists Intercollegiate SOC Committee that produced the Good Practice Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Gender Dysphoria in 2013. He was a Member of the European Platform for Mental Health from 2008 to 2009, London Regional General Practice Adviser for the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme from 2010 to 2012, Chair of the Long Term Mental Health Conditions Clinical Expert Panel for NHS London from 2010 to 2012 and Clinical Chair for Waltham Forest Federated GP Commissioning Consortium from 2011 to 2013. Professor Ivbijaro has presented papers and original thinking on primary care mental health integration and collaborative care at many local and international conferences and has published a range of articles in peer reviewed journals. He was editor of the Companion to Primary Care Mental Health, an international collaboration of 110 authors from all continents of the world which received a five star 100% Doodys Review and aims to promote access and delivery of evidence based practice in primary care. His contribution to the UK National Health Service was recognised by her Majesty the Queen in 2012 when he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire. Professor Ivbijaro is an International Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Wonca Fellow, a member of the American College of Psychiatrists, Chair of the World Dignity Project 2015 to 2017 and President of the World Federation for Mental Health.