Henrietta

Bowden-Jones

Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones OBE is a medical doctor and neuroscience researcher working as a consultant psychiatrist in Addictions leading two national clinics in the UK. She was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year’s Honours for Services to Addiction Treatment and to Research. She is Vice President of the Royal Society of Medicine (since Oct 2022), National Clinical Advisor on Gambling Harms (since Oct 2022), and Immediate Past President of Psychiatry, Royal Society of Medicine (2020-2022). She is Past President of the Medical Women’s Federation (2017-2019) and Honorary Professor at the UCL. She is also Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University. She is a Spokesperson on Behavioural Addictions at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and an Elected member of Board of Science Committee, British Medical Association. She is also a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Expert Group on Gaming Disorders and a member of the  Howard League Commission on Crime and Gambling Harm. She is the founder and Director of both, the National Problem Gambling Clinic, UK and of The National Centre for Gaming Disorders, UK.