James V. Lucey

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ABOUT JAMES V. LUCEY

Professor Jim Lucey is the Inspector of Mental Health Services at the Mental Health Commission of Ireland and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland RCSI. Prof Lucey is a former Consultant Psychiatrist at St. Patrick’s University Hospital in Dublin where he was Medical Director from 2008 to 2029 during a period of radical reform in Ireland`s oldest and largest independent not-for-profit Mental-Health provider. He has 40 years experience in clinical psychiatry. Previous clinical appointments include Consultant Psychiatrist at Connolly Hospital (HSE), Dublin, and Consultant Psychiatrist & Senior Lecturer at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital (NHS), London.Prof Lucey was educated at St Michael’s College, Dublin, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and Kings College, University of London. He graduated MB LRCPSI from RCSI in 1983, MD from TCD in 1993 and PhD from King’s College London He trained in psychiatry at St. Patrick’s Hospital, Dublin, The Maudsley Hospital, London and The Institute of Psychiatry (Kings College, London) where he was a Wellcome Trust Junior Research Fellow. In 2006 and 2014 he studied leadership at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in Boston.Prof Lucey is a former Governor of St Vincent’s Psychiatric Hospital (HSE) in Fairview Dublin, a former member of the Health Committee of the Irish Medical Council, and former board member of the Mental Health Commission of Ireland. Prof Lucey is a writer, broadcaster and public speaker with three best selling books, ‘In My Room’, ‘The Life Well-Lived’ and ‘A Whole New Plan For Living’.Speaking engagements included ‘The Lucas Lecture’ for the Apothecary Society at the 2019 RCPI St Luke’s Festival and a key note at the Irish Mental Health Summit in 2020 and at The National Council for Wellbeing in Washington DC USA in 2022 and presentations to other clinical and non-clinical bodies including the RCPI, RCSI, ICGP, and the BMA.For relaxation Prof Lucey enjoys pastel painting. He is a student @NCAD and has exhibited his work @TheMolesworthGallery. He is a lay cannon of Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, a patron of the Young People’s Theatre company (YPT) and a member of a Celtic-Persian fusion musical ensemble TheArtofCollaboration #TAOC, performances of #TAOC were at The Hugh Lane Gallery and The Séamus Heaney Exhibit at the Bank of Ireland and the workman’s club in Dublin.