Emeritus Professor Philip Graham delivered this Keynote lecture ‘Sixty-Five Years Working With Children’, on Thursday 7 November at the 2024 ACAMH Awards. Professor Graham was the recipient of ACAMH’s Michael Rutter Medal for Lifetime Contribution to Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
The ACAMH Awards aim to recognise high-quality work in evidence-based science, both in publication and practice, in the field of child and adolescent mental health.
Philip is Emeritus Professor Child Psychiatry, UCL, London. He was Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Institute of Child Health, London and Honorary Consultant in Child Psychiatry at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, London. He has published a number of books in the specialty, including Child Psychiatry: A Developmental Approach, Oxford University Press, now in its fourth edition and Where There Is No Child Psychiatrist, Cambridge University Press. Recently he has published peer-reviewed papers on trans children and brain changes in adolescence as well as a number of books, including Men and Sex and Going Gentle, a guide to a better terminal illness.
In the distant past, he was Coordinating Consultant to the WHO Child Mental Health Programme and Adviser in Child Psychiatry to the Chief Medical Officer. He served twice as Chair of the ACPP, then ACAMH.