Henrietta Bowden-Jones

Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones OBE is the Founder and Director of the National Problem Gambling Clinic, the first NHS treatment centre in the UK for the treatment of problem gamblers which she set up in 2008. Since 2019 she is also Founder and Director of the National Centre for Gaming Disorders, the first NHS clinic in the UK treating Gaming Disorder. She was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire ( OBE) in the 2019 New Year’s Honours for Services to Addiction Treatment and to Research.As well as graduating in Medicine and specialising in Psychiatry with a CCST in Addiction Psychiatry, Henrietta also pursued a research career and has a Doctorate in Medicine in the field of Neuroscience from Imperial College (Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex impairment in Alcohol Dependency) She has published several books and has an extensive publication list in a whole range of peer reviewed journals.

She is also:

Current Trustee and also President of Psychiatry at the Royal Society of Medicine

Past President,Medical Women’s Federation 2017-2019

Honorary Professor,Faculty of Brain Sciences,UCL.

Honorary Senior Visiting Research Fellow,Dept of Psychiatry ,Cambridge University.

Founder and joint Chair of the National UK Research Network for Behavioural Addictions ( NUK-BA) based at Cambridge University.

Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Spokesperson on Behavioural Addictions.

Psychiatrist of the Year 2020 Award. Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Elected member of Board of Science Committee, British Medical Association.

Henrietta is a regular expert advisor to both Westminster and the House of Lords and NHS England on matters pertaining to gambling disorder, gaming disorder and mental health.

Recipient of many national and international prizes and awards.