David Taylor (professor)

[3] Taylor was guitarist in New Wave group The Thought Police, who supported Theatre of Hate on their 1981 UK tour.

A keen rugby player, Taylor played three seasons for Loughborough Grammar School first team and was later captain of Old Pauline FC 1st XV, for whom he made over 300 appearances, many alongside fellow Old Loughburian Patrick MacLarnon.

In 2021 he was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych Hon) in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to the profession and the cause of mental health".

In 2008, Taylor was awarded a chair in psychopharmacology at King’s College, London and also made honorary professor at the Institute of Psychiatry.

[5] Taylor was chairman of the UK Psychiatric Pharmacy Group (1997-1999) and the foundation president of the College of Mental Health Pharmacists, a role recognised by the award of a lifetime fellowship (FCMHP).

Taylor is widely recognised as an expert witness on the effect of drugs on behaviour and has given testimony on over two hundred civil and criminal cases.

Taylor has pioneered the use of point-of-care capillary testing for clozapine[23][24] Taylor was the originator of the idea of an evidenced-based mental health prescribing guideline along with the late professor Robert Kerwin and has made a major and unique contribution by writing the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines[25] for over 25 years.

Professor Taylor has lectured throughout the world, including tours of New Zealand (2011), Hong Kong (2016), Australia (2019) and Japan (2019).