The PETAL Team

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Chief Investigator (CI)

Prof Angela Hassiotis – Professor in intellectual disability in the Division of Psychiatry at UCL and honorary consultant Psychiatrist at the Camden Learning Disability Service

Co-Chief Investigator

Dr Afia Ali – Senior Clinical Lecturer in intellectual disability at the Division of Psychiatry at UCL and an honorary consultant psychiatrist at the Waltham Forest community learning disability team

Co-investigators

Prof Sally-Ann Cooper – Professor in Intellectual Disabilities and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist (University of Glasgow and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde)

Prof Umesh Chauhan – Professor in Primary Care Medicine at University of Central Lancashire

Mrs Vivien Cooper OBE – Chair of The Challenging Behaviour Foundation

Prof Richard Hastings – Professor of Psychology and Education and Cerebra Chair of Family Research in the Centre for Educational Development Appraisal and Research at the University of Warwick

Miss Rachael Hunter – Principal Research Associate in Primary Care & Population Health at UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health

Prof Andrew Jahoda – Professor of Learning Disabilities at the University of Glasgow

Dr Louise Marston – Programme lead statistician and also a member of the PRIMENT Clinical Trials Unit

Prof Craig Melville – Professor in Intellectual Disabilities Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow

Dr Penny Rapaport – Clinical psychologist and senior research fellow in the Division of Psychiatry at UCL

Prof Laurence Taggart – Reader in Nursing at Ulster University

Dr Liz Steed – Health Psychologist at Queen Mary, University of London

Prof Andre Strydom – Professor of Intellectual Disability Psychiatry