Dr Benjamin Baig is a Consultant Liaison Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London. He holds CCTs in both General Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He has completed an MPhil in Schizophrenia Genetics and PhD in Depression in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has held a Wellcome Trust Training Fellowship and academic positions at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Malawi. He has held the role as Deputy Director of International Affairs at the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Research Interests

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Liaison Psychiatry
• Functional Symptoms
• Neuropsychiatry and chronic physical illness

Research Groups

Functional Neurological Disorder Society

Teaching 

MBChB - Child Psychiatry, MSc Module lead, MRCPsych CT Paediatric Liaison Psychiatry

Expertise and Public Engagement 

Lectures and keynote teaching on Functional Neurological Disorders and paediatric neuropsychiatry including:

Maudsley Masterclass on Paediatric Neuropsychiatry, London 2023
Royal College Paediatrics and Child Health, Functional Symptoms in Children
Royal College of Emergency Medicine. Functional symptoms in the emergency department, London 2025
European Union of Specialists in Emergency Medicine Child suicide risk in the emergency department, Barcelona 2024
Royal Society of Medicine The sick role and psycho gastroenterology, London 2021
Royal College of Psychiatrists. Liaison and Neuropsychiatry Faculty Neuropsychiatric consequences of Covid, London 2025
European Association of Paediatric Societies: Functional Symptoms in Children, Lisbon 2025