Sheila Hollins

Abstract

Professor Sheila Baroness Hollins sits in the House of Lords as an independent cross-bench peer and speaks about health and social care policy and press regulation. Her particular interest is in the mental and physical health and care of people with intellectual  disabilities arising from her innovative clinical work, research, policy advocacy and family experience. She is emeritus professor of psychiatry of disability at St. George’s University of London in England, UK. She is also founder and  chair of Beyond Words, a charitable company that co-creates picture books with and for people who find pictures easier to understand than words. Dr. Hollins is currently president of the College of Occupational Therapists and has served as the elected president of both the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She is a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.