About
Dr Himanshu Tyagi PhD FRCPsych is a medical psychotherapist and neuropsychiatrist in the field of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. His main clinical and research focus is on obsessive-compulsive & related disorders in neuropsychiatric settings. He coordinated the first UK trial investigating Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in severe and treatment refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) between 2012-2016 at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. He holds a CCT in Psychotherapy (CBT), a PhD in neuroscience from UCL and was the recipient of Higher Psychiatric Trainee of the Year award from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK in 2012 and British Neuropsychiatric Association’s Alwyn Lishman prize in 2017. He is also a co-founder and co-chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists network for Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (OCARD).
At present he runs a specialist national clinic for OCD comorbid with Tourette syndrome at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square and leads one of two specialist inpatient OCD services in England which is based in North London. He is also a co-investigator on the Op-TICS trial, looking at deep brain stimulation in patients with severe Tourette Syndrome. He routinely tweets about the latest OCD research and clinical practice tips at @himanshutyagi
He has been an early advocate of the use of technology and AI to revolutionise healthcare delivery and eradicating technical and psychological obstacles in wider adoption of healthcare tech. Previously he served as editor of Connect, Journal of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Mental Health Informatics Group, written on the topic of healthcare tech strategies for the commonwealth health secretariat and presented an working AI model for generating literature reviews on medical topics at the American Psychiatric Association’s International Meeting at Philadelphia.
He has published several books for medical students and was a co-founder of RxPG, the largest educational network for worldwide medical students.
Affiliations
- UCLH — Tourette / OCD Clinic
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG
- UCLH — Neurorehabilitation Unit
- Consultant Psychiatrist in Neurorehabilitation, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- UCL — Academic
- Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Co-chair, Network for Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders (OCARD)
- Private practice
- Occasional; limited to OCD & related disorders and complex neuropsychiatric assessments. Queen Square Private Healthcare, 23 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR
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