CAMH Editors

Meet the editorial team behind the journal Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

  • Dr. Bernadka Dubicka

    Professor Bernadka Dubicka – Editor in Chief

    Editor in Chief, Bernadka qualified in medicine and psychology at the University of London, completing child psychiatry training and her thesis in adolescent depression at the University of Manchester. She is the chief investigator of the National Institute of Health Research multi-site BAY trial of web-based Behavioural Activation in young people with depression (2022-26).

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  • Dr. Cornelius Ani

    Dr. Cornelius Ani – Deputy Editor in Chief

    Dr. Cornelius Ani is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Division of Psychiatry, Imperial College London, and a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the African Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Dr Ani is responsible for the Letters to the Editor section and he contributes editorial expertise in the area of Low and Middle Income Countries, inequalities, and physical health.

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  • Dr. Amy McCulloch

    Dr. Amy McCulloch

    Dr Amy McCulloch is a Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and Galaxy House inpatient unit at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. She is Debates Intern and a committee member for the Northwest branch of ACAMH.

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  • Penny Bee

    Professor Penny Bee

    Penny Bee is Professor of Applied Mental Health Research, and a Director of Research and Innovation at the University of Manchester She is an Associate Editor of CAMH, responsible for handling Qualitative studies.

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  • Dr. Hiran Thabrew

    Dr. Hiran Thabrew

    Dr Hiran Thabrew is a Child Psychiatrist and Paediatrician. He is Director of Te Ara Hāro, a centre for infant, child and adolescent mental health at the University of Auckland and a member of the Consult Liaison Team at Starship Children’s Hospital.

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  • Dr. Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo

    Dr. Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo

    Dr. Salazar de Pablo is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London. He also works as an honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Gonzalo is in the Board of Directors of the Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health and he is one of the joint editors of CAMH.

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  • Professor Michael Kaess

    Michael Kaess is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Bern as well as the Director of the University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bern in Switzerland. Professor Kaess is a Joint Editor of CAMH. 

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  • Professor Lina Gega

    Lina Gega is Professor of Mental Health at the University of York and Honorary Nurse Consultant at Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Trust, with a PhD in Health Services Research from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. She is a Joint Editor of CAMH.

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  • Tycho Dekkers

    Dr. Tycho Dekkers

    Dr. Dekkers is a senior researcher at the Accare Child Study Center and the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. He also works as a licensed therapist and coordinator of the ADHD team at Levvel, Academic Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Specialized Youthcare in Amsterdam. He is a Joint Editor of CAMH.

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  • Professor Gabrielle Carlson

    Professor Gabrielle Carlson

    Gabrielle Carlson is Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. She is also President of AACAP (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry) Professor Carlson is a Joint Editor of CAMH. 

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