Dave Curtis
Medical information
Please note that I am unable to provide advice or information regarding
the treatment or investigation of any medical or psychiatric conditions
- please consult your own doctor for this purpose. Any email from or concerning
my own patients should be addressed not to me but to my secretary:
sheila.laane@eastlondon.nhs.uk.
Previous career
Undertook preclinical medical training with social psychology option at
St. John's College, Cambridge, then clinical
training at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School (now part of UCL). Trained in psychiatry at the
Middlesex and UCL hospitals, where I began my research in psychiatric
genetics with Hugh Gurling in the Unit of
Molecular Psychiatry. Worked as lecturer in psychiatry at St Mary's
Hospital Medical School, part of Imperial
College, and was awarded MD for thesis titled "Genetic Linkage
Studies of the Functional Psychoses". Next worked as senior lecturer at
the Institute of Psychiatry
and obtained PhD in genetics from Cambridge University.
Healthcare costs survey
This survey on costs of healthcare to the patient is no longer recruiting. Thanks to all who participated.
You can still view the survey questions here.
The full text of the paper based on the results of this survey can be viewed here.
Research interests
I am or have been involved in studying the
genetics of a number of disorders, especially those with complex
patterns of inheritance. These include:
- manic depression and schizophrenia
- Gilles de la Tourette syndrome
- alcoholism
- pyloric stenosis
- juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
- coeliac disease
- diabetes
- ischaemic heart disease
- DIDMOAD (Wolfram) syndrome
I am also interested in developing improved methods for the genetic analysis of
diseases with complex modes of inheritance.
You can see a list of my main publications here.
Software
I have written a number of programs for assisting in the management and
analysis of genetic data available from
this page.
Teaching
I deliver a number of lectures on genetics to medical students and psychiatrists,
and if you like you can check out the lecture notes.
I used to teach a course on genetic linkage analysis in London and Aarhus, Denmark. You can browse or download the exercises for the course
here.
Blog
More ephemeral and/or opinionated stuff can be found
here.
Send me some email.
David Curtis (david.curtis@qmul.ac.uk)