Dr Lade Smith CBE

Dr Shubulade Smith is a consultant psychiatrist with 27 years’ experience in psychiatry, and a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London. She is a highly skilled clinician with expertise in a broad range of mental health problems from common disorders such as anxiety and depression to more complex problems such as psychoses. She has many years’ experience working with people with co-morbid disorders e.g. bipolar illness complicated by substance use, depressive illness with PTSD.

Dr Smith currently holds positions at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM), where she is the Clinical Director for the Forensic service. She previously ran the forensic intensive care unit at SLaM and prior to that the general intensive care unit at the Maudsley Hospital. Her ward was shortlisted for Psychiatric Team of the Year (2011). Dr Smith was voted a BMA pioneering consultant and nominated as a Woman of the Year in 2002 for the development of her “One Stop Shop”, a medication review and physical monitoring clinic for people with mental health problems. 

She is recognised nationally and internationally for her work in the hormonal and reproductive effects of antipsychotic medications, and has published over 60 journal articles, research letters and book chapters in the field of psychiatry. She continues to do research at the IoPPN. Dr Smith is also a clinical supervisor, trains junior psychiatrists, and teaches regularly on the Maudsley MRCPsych training course, the IoPPN Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course and at Guys, Kings and St Thomas’ (GKT) Medical School. 

She was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to psychiatry in June 2019 and won the prestigious Royal College of Psychiatrists Psychiatrist of the Year award in November 2019. She was elected President of the College in 2022.