Academic Work

Dr Neil Hunt is an Associate Lecturer at the clinical school of the University of Cambridge. He lectures on the clinical course in psychiatry for medical students, particularly about effective treatment for mental disorders. He also teaches students on the wards and in the clinics and examines them in their end of course assessments.

http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/pages/bchirs5.html

Dr Hunt teaches and supervises doctors who are training in psychiatry. He also teaches on the courses for Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. His particular expertise is on dealing with violence, the management of acute behavioural disturbance and the Mental Health Act. However his main contribution is on teaching about Bipolar disorder.

He also teaches at local academic conferences for General Practitioners on management of depression, bipolar illness and also violence. He lectures at Postgraduate meetings for Psychiatrists on Bipolar disorder.

Here is a powerpoint presentation for a recent lecture.

Dr Hunt has a close link with the Cambridge Manic Depressive Fellowship and contributes to their meetings as well as a regular ‘Ask the doctor’ article in their local newsletter, some of these articles are reprinted in the national magazine - Pendulum.

http://www.mdf.org.uk/index.php

He has recently had a book published (by Elsevier) for General Practitioners in the ‘Your Questions Answered’ series entitled ‘bipolar disorder’
http://intl.elsevierhealth.com/catalogue/title.cfm?ISBN=0443100705