Henrietta Bowden-Jones

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Henrietta Bowden-Jones OBE (born 27 April 1964) is a medical doctor, psychiatrist, honorary professor at University College London^[8] and honorary senior visiting fellow, Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge University.^[9]

In 2008 she founded and became director of the National Problem Gambling Clinic, the first centre to treat gambling disorder. This clinic remained the only centre of its kind for 12 years and has been inundated by thousands of referrals since its opening in 2008. Now it holds an extensive national database on pathological gambling.

In 2019 she was advisor to NHS England on the 10-year Long-Term Plan for Gambling Disorder. The original clinic she had founded and run for over a decade was commissioned as the template for another 15 NHS-funded clinics designated to the treatment of gambling disorder. One of these became the Young People's Gambling services also run from the same central site under Bowden-Jones's leadership.

In 2019 with NHS funding, she founded the National Centre for Gaming Disorders, the first NHS centre to treat Gaming Disorder following the inclusion of this addiction in the new International Classification of diseases (ICD 11). The National Centre for Gaming Disorders, part of CNWL NHS Trust, treats people as young as 13 and in its first year significantly over-performed the planned commissioning targets set by NHS England.

In 2019 Bowden-Jones was also appointed as honorary professor at University College London Division of Psychology and Language Sciences.^[8]

In 2020 she became honorary senior visiting fellow, Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge University.^[9] Bowden-Jones co-founded the National UK Behavioural Addictions Research Group, based in the Dept of Psychiatry. The group has brought together researchers with expertise in different spheres of behavioural addictions ranging form neurobiology to epidemiology and clinical research.

She is now the director of the newly established NHS-funded Centre for Behavioural Addictions overseeing the work of both the National Problem Gambling Clinic and the Centre for Internet and Gaming Disorders.^{[10][11][12][13][14][15]}

Immediate past president of the Medical Women's Federation ( 2018–2020).^[16]

Current president of the Royal Society of Medicine Psychiatry Section.^[17] 2020-2022 and Royal Society of Medicine Trustee 2021–2024.

Royal College of Psychiatrists spokesperson for Behavioral Addictions.

Bowden-Jones was appointed as a board member of the Howard League Crime and Problem Gambling Commission^[18] 2019–2022

Bowden-Jones appointed as a board member on the Board of Science Committee British Medical Association. (2021–2024)