Sir Desmond Arthur Pond (2 September 1919 – 29 June 1986) was a British psychiatrist.
His primary interest was in psychiatry and from 1948 to 1952 he was Senior Lecturer in the Department of Neurophysiology at Maudsley Hospital.
[2] Pond served on the Neurosciences Board of the Medical Research Council from 1968 to 1972 and President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 1978 to 1981.
Finally he served as Chief Scientist at the Department of Health and Social Security from 1982, until his retirement in 1985.
He delivered the Goulstonian Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians in 1961 on the subject of the Psychiatric Aspects of Epileptic Brain-damaged Children.