Contact

• workInstitute of Mental Health
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• Daniel.Whiting@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I am a clinical academic forensic psychiatrist. I completed my medical training at the University of Oxford, graduating in 2010. I returned to Oxford to undertake my core psychiatry training as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in 2012. I remained with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust for my higher training in forensic psychiatry, completing my clinical training in 2018. I was then awarded an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship to undertake a PhD, based with the Forensic Psychiatry Research Group at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. My PhD involved developing approaches to improve violence risk assessment and intervention in first episode psychosis, and I worked clinically with Early Intervention in Psychosis services during the fellowship. Having completed my PhD I joined the University of Nottingham in 2022 as a Clinical Associate Professor, which also involves working clinically as a consultant forensic psychiatrist in Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's prison mental health services.

My primary research interest is in prediction models and how they might best be developed and clinically translated to improve care as clinical support tools in psychiatry. My doctoral research involved validating and updating a violence risk prediction tool by using routine data in electronic health records and linking this with police data, and examining the acceptability, feasibility and potential role of the tool in clinical practice using a mixed methods approach. More broadly I am interested in clinical research in forensic settings, and the epidemiology of violence in mental illness, with experience in systematic review and meta-analysis.

Expertise Summary

Prediction models

Violence risk assessment

Systematic review & meta-analysis

Mixed methods research

Recent Publications

• WHITING, DANIEL, GULATI, GAUTAM, GEDDES, JOHN R. and FAZEL, SEENA, 2022. Association of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders and Violence Perpetration in Adults and Adolescents from 15 Countries A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis JAMA PSYCHIATRY. 79(2), 120-132
• WHITING, DANIEL, GEDDES, JOHN R. and FAZEL, SEENA, 2022. Associating Violence With Schizophrenia-Risks and Biases-Reply JAMA PSYCHIATRY. 79(7),
• PUNTIS, STEPHEN, WHITING, DANIEL, PAPPA, SOFIA and LENNOX, BELINDA, 2021. Development and external validation of an admission risk prediction model after treatment from early intervention in psychosis services TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY. 11(1),
• WHITING, DANIEL, LICHTENSTEIN, PAUL and FAZEL, SEENA, 2021. Violence and mental disorders: a structured review of associations by individual diagnoses, risk factors, and risk assessment LANCET PSYCHIATRY. 8(2), 150-161

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• WHITING, DANIEL, GULATI, GAUTAM, GEDDES, JOHN R. and FAZEL, SEENA, 2022. Association of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders and Violence Perpetration in Adults and Adolescents from 15 Countries A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis JAMA PSYCHIATRY. 79(2), 120-132
• WHITING, DANIEL, GEDDES, JOHN R. and FAZEL, SEENA, 2022. Associating Violence With Schizophrenia-Risks and Biases-Reply JAMA PSYCHIATRY. 79(7),
• PUNTIS, STEPHEN, WHITING, DANIEL, PAPPA, SOFIA and LENNOX, BELINDA, 2021. Development and external validation of an admission risk prediction model after treatment from early intervention in psychosis services TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY. 11(1),
• WHITING, DANIEL, LICHTENSTEIN, PAUL and FAZEL, SEENA, 2021. Violence and mental disorders: a structured review of associations by individual diagnoses, risk factors, and risk assessment LANCET PSYCHIATRY. 8(2), 150-161
• WHITING, DANIEL, RYLAND, HOWARD and FAZEL, SEENA, 2021. Forensic mental health treatment and recidivism. In: FOCQUAERT F, SHAW E and WALLER BN, eds., The Routledge handbook of the philosophy and science of punishment Routledge.
• BEAUDRY, GABRIELLE, ZHONG, SHAOLING, WHITING, DANIEL, JAVID, BABAK, FRATER, JOHN and FAZEL, SEENA, 2020. Managing outbreaks of highly contagious diseases in prisons: a systematic review BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH. 5(11),
• WHITING, DANIEL and FAZEL, SEENA, 2020. Prognostic models in first-episode psychosis LANCET DIGITAL HEALTH. 2(2), E60-E60
• WHITING, DANIEL and FAZEL, SEENA, 2020. Epidemiology and risk factors for violence in people with mental disorders. In: CARPINIELLO B, VITA A and MENCACCI C, eds., Violence and mental disorders 1. Springer International Publishing. 49-62
• WHITING, DANIEL, LENNOX, BELINDA R. and FAZEL, SEENA, 2020. Violent outcomes in first-episode psychosis: A clinical cohort study EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHIATRY. 14(3), 379-382
• WHITING D and FAZEL S, 2019. How accurate are suicide risk prediction models? Asking the right questions for clinical practice Evid Based Ment Health. 22(3), 125-128
• WOLF, ACHIM, WHITING, DANIEL and FAZEL, SEENA, 2017. Violence prevention in psychiatry: an umbrella review of interventions in general and forensic psychiatry JOURNAL OF FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY & PSYCHOLOGY. 28(5), 659-673
• COOPER, CHARLOTTE M., WHITING, DANIEL A., COWEN, PHILIP J. and HARMER, CATHERINE J., 2015. Tianeptine in an experimental medicine model of antidepressant action JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY. 29(5), 582-590
• WHITING, DANIEL, 2015. Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists: a heterogeneous class of novel psychoactive substance with emerging risk of psychosis EVIDENCE-BASED MENTAL HEALTH. 18(4), 110-110