{{Short description|British psychiatrist}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Pamela Jane Taylor | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRCPsych|FMedSci|size=100%|sep=,}} | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = <!--(filename only, i.e. without "File:" prefix)--> | image_size = | image_upright = | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = <!-- if different from "name" --> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|4|23|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = <!--{{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|1948|4|23|df=y}} --> | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}--> | other_names = | siglum = | pronounce = | citizenship = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT --> | fields = | workplaces = Cardiff University<br>King’s College London | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = | thesis_title = <!--(or | thesis1_title = and | thesis2_title = )--> | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = <!--(or | thesis1_year = and | thesis2_year = )--> | doctoral_advisor = <!--(or | doctoral_advisors = )--> | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = <!--(or | spouses = )--> | partner = <!--(or | partners = )--> | children = | parents = | father = | mother = | relatives = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_type = <!--(defaults to "Signature")--> | signature_alt = | website = <!--{{URL|www.example.com}}--> | footnotes = }}
'''Pamela Jane Taylor''' (born 23 April 1948) is a British psychiatrist and academic, who specialises in the links between psychosis and violence, and mental and physical health in the criminal justice system.<ref name="bio Cardiff">{{cite web|title=Professor Pamela Taylor|url=http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/126763-taylor-pamela|website=Cardiff University|accessdate=23 April 2017}}</ref> Since 2004, she has been Professor of Forensic Psychiatry in the Department Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences of Cardiff University.<ref name="Who's Who 2017">{{cite web|title=TAYLOR, Prof. Pamela Jane, (Mrs J. C. Gunn)|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U37162|website=Who's Who 2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=23 April 2017|date=November 2016}}</ref><ref name="FMedSci">{{cite web|title=Professor Pamela Taylor FMedSci|url=https://acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/professor-pamela-taylor|website=The Academy of Medical Sciences|accessdate=23 April 2017}}</ref>
Having trained at Guy's Hospital, London, she has worked as an honorary consultant at Bethlem Royal Hospital (commonly known as Bedlam) and Maudsley Hospital from 1982 to 2005, at Broadmoor Hospital from 1995 to 2005, at Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust since 2004.<ref name="Who's Who 2017" /> She was Professor of Special Hospital Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London between 1995 and 2004.<ref name="Who's Who 2017" /> She was a joint-founder of the academic journal ''Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health'', and has been its joint-editor since its foundation in 1991.<ref name="Who's Who 2017" />
==Honours== In 1978, Taylor was awarded the Gaskell Medal and Prize by the Royal College of Psychiatrists;<ref>{{cite web|title=Prizes and prize winners|url=http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/Online%20archive%2036%20Prizes%20and%20prize%20winners.pdf|website=Madness to Mental Illness: A History of the Royal College of Psychiatrists|publisher=Royal College of Psychiatrists|accessdate=23 April 2017|date=2005}}</ref> it is "one of the foremost academic distinctions in clinical psychiatry".<ref>{{cite journal|title=Prizes, Medals and Travelling Fellowships of The Royal College of Psychiatrists|journal=Psychiatric Bulletin|date=1990|volume=14|pages=121–122|url=http://pb.rcpsych.org/content/pbrcpsych/14/2/121.full.pdf|accessdate=23 April 2017|publisher=Royal College of Psychiatrists|doi=10.1192/pb.14.2.121|last1=Sims|first1=A. C. P.|issue=2|doi-access=free}}</ref> In 1989, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych).<ref name="Who's Who 2017" /> In 2004, she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci).<ref name="FMedSci" />
She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to forensic psychiatry.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61962|supp=y|page=B10|date=17 June 2017}}</ref>
==Selected works== * {{cite book |editor1-last=Gunn |editor1-first=John |editor2-last=Taylor |editor2-first=Pamela J. |title=Forensic Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues |date=1993 |publisher=Butterworth-Heinemann |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0750603492 |edition=1st}} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Gunn |editor1-first=John |editor2-last=Taylor |editor2-first=Pamela J. |title=Forensic Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues |date=2010 |publisher=Hodder Arnold |location=London |isbn=978-0340806289 |edition=2nd}}
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