Anthony David (neuropsychiatrist)

Anthony David FMedSci is a British neuropsychiatrist based at University College London.

Previously tenured as professor of cognitive neuropsychiatry and Vice Dean at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, since 2018 he has been Director, University College London, Institute of Mental Health.

Professor David studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, from which he graduated in 1980.

He has a wide range of professional and research interests and has published on schizophrenia, neuropsychiatry, medically unexplained syndromes and neuroimaging – both structural and functional – and specialises in research into insight (awareness of illness) in schizophrenia and other disorders.

He is also an Emeritus Senior Investigator at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).