Raschkowan Lecture Series: Gambling in the Digital Age, 2.0
Presenter: Dr. Henrietta Bowden-Jones, President of Psychiatry, Royal Society of Medicine; Director, U.K. National Centre for Behavioral Addictions (National Problem Gambling Clinic and National Centre for Gaming Disorders)
The talk will give an overview of the UK gambling landscape, the size of the problem, the issues faced by both politicians and clinicians in dealing with technology as a means to both providing gambling opportunities and blocking gambling activities. The recent government Review of the 2005 Gambling Act will be discussed.
Treatment, policy and prevention will all be covered in an attempt to address the most pressing issues facing the "digital age.”
Speaker Bio
Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones OBE is a medical doctor and neuroscience researcher working as consultant psychiatrist in addictions while leading two national clinics in the UK. 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 Research. Dr. Bowden-Jones is the current President of Psychiatry, Royal Society of Medicine (2020-2022) as well the Founding Director of the National Problem Gambling Clinic, the first NHS treatment centre in the UK for the treatment of problem gamblers which she established in 2008. She holds many national and international awards including Psychiatrist of the Year - 2020 Award from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Dr. Bowden-Jones is an Honorary Professor, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL, and Honorary Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of Psychiatry, Cambridge University. She is a Trustee of the Royal Society of Medicine, has numerous publications and is a regular expert advisor to both Westminster and the House of Lords on matters pertaining to gambling disorder, gaming disorder and mental health.
The Raschkowan webinar series is free to attend, but registration is required. For more information or to register, see www.ncpgambling.org/Raschkowan
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