Paul Fearon PhD, FRCPI, FRCPsych, is Medical Director of St Patricks Mental Health Services and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin. He graduated in Medicine from University College Dublin, and after five years postgraduate training in general medicine, he specialised in psychiatry. He completed his training at the Maudsley Hospital, London and was a consultant general adult psychiatrist there for seven years.

As a senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, he headed the Section of Social Psychiatry and Epidemiology.

He returned to Dublin to take up his post as Clinical Professor in Psychiatry and General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist in St Patrick’s Mental Health Services and Trinity College Dublin in 2008. He acted as Assistant Medical Director from 2015, prior or taking up his post as Medical Director in January 2020.

Prof Fearon has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, largely in the areas of the epidemiology and the role of socioenvironmental factors in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and in Quality of Care in Mental Health Services.