Professor Peter Hill

Peter is a Professor and Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry who now works in private medical practice, having previously held senior academic and clinical posts at St George’s, University of London, and at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. He is a medical doctor who is a fellow of three Royal Medical Royal Colleges.

He has written or published a range of books, chapters and papers on the assessment and treatment of mental health problems in the young, particularly issues to do with neurodiversity and selective neurodevelopmental conditions. Additionally, he has advised senior politicians and the House of Commons Health Select Committee on on the development of mental health services for the young. He has been an invited commentator or expert on such issues in all continents, most recently on psychopharmacology in the young. 

He has, at some stage been a specialist advisor to the British Army, The Mental Health Foundation, The Audit Commission, The Health Advisory Service and held a number of important posts in the Royal College of Psychiatrists. His main work now is the provision of expert reports on mental health issues affecting individual young people.