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The Calipso
concept of delivering training and self-help materials via interactive
CD-ROM was developed by a team of medical experts from one of the
UK's leading medical schools.
The founding
members, from the University of Leeds School of Medicine*, are Dr
Chris Williams, Professor David Cottrell, Dr Pat Harkin and Dr Sue
Aubin. They are experts in mental health training and teach university
medical students. Dr Williams and Professor Cottrell are also practitioners
and each manage a caseload of patients with mental health conditions.
Profiles
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Dr
Chris Williams is a UKCP accredited Cognitive Therapist
with many years specialist experience providing Cognitive
Behaviour
Therapy. He is immediate Past-President of the lead body
for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in the United Kingdom,
the British
association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
(BABCP).
Now based
at University of Glasgow as Senior Lecturer in Psychological
Medicine, he remains very closely involved in Calipso and
authors the majority of new course content material.
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Professor
David Cottrell is Professor of Child & Adolescent
Psychiatry & Director
of
Learning and Teaching at the School of Medicine in Leeds.
He is also a
UKCP Registered Family Therapist. He has many years specialist
experience as
a therapist and in delivering innovative learning and
teaching packages. He
has served as a contributing member of the Calipso Management
Team for over
5 years.
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Dr
Pat Harkin graduated from Leeds School of Medicine in 1981
and entered pathology the following year. Histopathology,
like many laboratory disciplines, has always had a strong
IT element and he soon became involved in developing the
UK’s first computer-based learning suite for undergraduate
pathology. His
pathology software was taken up by many other medical schools
in Britain and abroad, and he has also helped develop education
material for use in paediatrics, psychiatry, veterinary
medicine and dentistry. He now works full time in the School
of Medicine administration, taking responsibility for the
integration of C & IT into the curriculum and is involved
in developing the University’s e-learning strategy.
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Dr
Susan Aubin graduated from Leeds Medical school in 1988.
After six years training in psychiatry she joined the Calipso
team in 1995.
Her
role in the team includes authoring content and
beta testing of CD-ROMS currently in development. |
Professor Cottrell
and Dr Aubin are based at the Division of Psychiatry and Behavioural
Sciences in Relation to Medicine, University of Leeds which is one
of the UK's principal centres for undergraduate and postgraduate
teaching in clinical psychiatry, clinical psychology, behavioural
sciences and psychotherapy.
* The University
of Leeds School
of Medicine is internationally renowned for it's provision
of high quality medical education to both undergraduate and
postgraduate
students completing their professional medical training at the
School each year.
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