Dr Digby Quested
Dr Digby Quested is an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College. He is a Consultant Psychiatrist with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust at the Warneford Hospital and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.
Following psychiatry training in London at the Maudsley Hospital and in Charing Cross Hospital rotation posts, including a research fellowship to investigate schizophrenia aetiology, he completed an MD in Oxford on serotonin receptor mechanisms in depression. As a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS he works in the Oxford City Adult Mental Health Team and is an investigator in the Depression theme of the Oxford Health NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. He set up a gene/environment study as a collaboration with University College London, investigating peri-natal environmental light influences in schizophrenia, with the DNA samples included in genome wide association studies. He is principal investigator for studies in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia involving melatonin and light respectively, as well as continuing to collaborate with UCL on genetic studies and with clinical researchers in Istanbul, Turkey. He leads OCLIPSE (Oxford Clinical Light Investigations into Polarity, Schizophrenia and Emotional Wellbeing) as a dispersed collaborative and has been awarded a second research fellowship term to prepare a grant application for a trial of melatonin in bipolar treatment.
Educationally – Dr Quested coordinated the MRCPsych Course in Oxford for eight years and lectured on anti-psychotic treatments and gene/environmental aspects of psychosis. He enjoys supervising students, including Green Templeton College advisees, trainees in psychiatry and international research trainees. He is on the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) Council where he is also a lecturer on the BAP Clinical Certificate Course on Schizophrenia and leads on sustainability. In Oxford he is pathway development lead for Bipolar Disorder at the interface of Primary and Secondary Care.
