David Taylor

David Taylor is Director of Pharmacy and Pathology at the Maudsley Hospital and Professor of Psychopharmacology at King’s College, London, UK. In 2014, David was ranked in the top 100 clinical leaders in the NHS by the Health Service Journal.

David was a member of the UK Department of Transport expert panel that introduced drug-driving regulations. He is currently a member of the UK government’s Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs. Professor Taylor is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology.

Professor Taylor has been the lead author of the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines since its inception in 1993. The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines have sold over 300,000 copies in fourteen editions and twelve languages. David has also authored over 350 clinical papers in journals such as The Lancet, BMJ, British Journal of Psychiatry, and Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. These papers have been cited over 15,000 times. Professor Taylor has written or edited seven other books and written over twenty book chapters.