Henrietta M. Bowden-Jones

Director, National Problem Gambling Clinic and National Centre for Gaming Disorders

Henrietta M. Bowden-Jones OBE is a medical doctor, a Psychiatrist and Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London. In 2008 she founded and became Director of the National Problem Gambling Clinic, the first and only NHS centre (CNWL NHS Trust) to treat gambling disorder. In 2018 she was part of the NHS England working group that used her clinic as a template to plan the opening of 14 more clinics across the country as part of the NHS 10 Year Long Term Plan. In 2019 with NHS funding, she opened the first NHS centre to treat Gaming Disorder following the inclusion of this addiction in the new ICD 11. She is now the Director of the newly established NHS funded National Centre for Behavioural Addictions overseeing the work of both the National Problem Gambling Clinic and the National Centre for Gaming Disorders. She is the immediate Past President of the Medical Women’s Federation (2018-2020), President Elect of the Royal Society of Medicine Psychiatry Section and the Royal College of Psychiatrists Spokesperson for Behavioral Addictions. @ArtScienceDoc