Natalie Shoham

Dr. Natalie Shoham is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), affiliated with the Unit for Psychological Medicine within the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health. She serves as an honorary consultant psychiatrist at East London NHS Foundation Trust and is a trainee editor for BJPsych Open. Her work bridges clinical practice and research, focusing on psychosis, serious mental illnesses, and health inequalities. Dr. Shoham holds a PhD from University College London (UCL), where her doctoral research examined visual impairment and psychosis. She employs large datasets like the UK Biobank and advanced methods such as Mendelian Randomisation to investigate mental health causation and interventions. Her editorial roles reflect her commitment to advancing psychiatric research communication.

Research Interests: Reducing health disparities in mental illness, psychosis etiology, and epidemiological approaches to mental health. She has contributed to studies on visual impairment’s impact on psychosis, schizophrenia genetics, and temporal trends in psychotic symptoms across populations. Her work emphasizes translational research to improve care for affected individuals.