Seline Ismail-Sutton
Cardiff University Medical School, UK
Biography
Seline Ismail-Sutton is pursuing her Medicine at Cardiff University, United Kingdom. She is extremely passionate about Paediatric Mental Health. She has been fortunate to be part of the Cardiff ECHO study researching 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. The study has followed up children and adolescents with this syndrome. The study has found a high rate of mental health conditions including anxiety, ADHD and psychotic symptoms in this cohort. She has researched how these psychotic and pre-psychotic symptoms are related to environmental factors. She believes research into genetic syndromes and mental health is crucial, enabling early intervention to be conducted and subsequently reduce the incidence of mental health disorders.