Andrew M. McIntosh

Andrew M. McIntosh   is a UK academic psychiatrist. He is Professor of Biological Psychiatry at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, and is an affiliate member of the Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. The main focus of his research is using genomic and neuroimaging approaches to better understand the causes and causal consequences of Major Depressive Disorder.

Education
He completed his BSc and MBChB (medical qualification) at the University of Aberdeen and his psychiatric training in South East Scotland, and at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, before gaining MRCPsych in 2000. He has an MPhil (Psychiatry) and MD (Psychiatry, 2004) from the University of Edinburgh and a MSc in Applied Statistics from Edinburgh Napier University. He has held an MRC Clinical Training, Health Foundation/Academy of Medical Sciences Clinician Scientist and Scottish Funding Council Senior Clinical Fellowships

Career
McIntosh is co-chair of the Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. with Cathryn Lewis. He is Chief Scientist of the Health Data Research UK Mental Health Hub DATAMIND and chair of the Generation Scotland Mental Expert Working Group and was founding Chair of the MQ Mental Health Data Science Group. McIntosh is a Wellcome Trust Investigator and is an investigator on many studies of depression, including DepGenAfrica.

Selected publications