In this episode, Jane meets Professor Henrietta Bowden Jones OBE, a medical doctor and neuroscience researcher working as consultant psychiatrist in addictions. Professor Jones is the current President of the Royal Society of Medicine (2022-2025) and was appointed as the UK’s first National Clinical Advisor on Gambling Harms in 2022. Jane and Henrietta talk about Henrietta’s childhood at boarding school in Italy and moving to the UK, her career at Chelsea and Westminster hospital and research fellowship at Imperial College and her advice for aspiring medical leaders. 

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Date of episode recording: 2023-04-20
Duration: 00:43:34
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Professor Dame Jane Dacre
Guests: Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones OBE
Producer: Matt Aucott