Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry
Imperial College of Medicine
University of London
Stuart A. Montgomery, MD, is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the Imperial College School of Science and Medicine, University of London and holds numerous university and international society appointments. He has great breadth of experience in the field of psychotropic medicine with seminal work in depression, anxiety disorders, suicide prevention and schizophrenia.
His reputation was established early with his work on improving the methodology of clinical trials. His numerous placebo-controlled studies in the long-term treatment of depression and anxiety have set the standard for investigations in the field. The Montgomery & Asberg Depression Rating Scale is now recognized as the most sensitive measure of efficacy.
He has published 26 books and more than 400 papers. Dr Montgomery is editor of International Clinical Psychopharmacology and editor of European Neuropsychopharmacology. He also serves on the editorial board of 18 other scientific journals.
Prof. Montgomery completed his undergraduate and postgraduate training in Medicine at University College, University of London. He carried out further postgraduate training at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, where he was awarded his research MD.