Curriculum Vitae
Nathan TM Huneke, MBChB(Hons) MRes MRCPsych
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Current Positions
2019 - current MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow, University Dept of Psychiatry, University of Southampton
2019 - current Honorary SpR in General Adult Psychiatry, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
Formal Education and Examinations
2019 - current PhD in Clinical Neurosciences, University of Southampton
2017 Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Passed all examinations on first attempt
2007 - 2013 MBChB(Hons) Medicine, University of Manchester
2011 - 2012 Intercalated MRes in Medical Sciences, University of Manchester
- Passed with Distinction
Awards and Honours
2020 Winner of the ‘Early-stage PhD’ 3-minute Thesis Competition, NIHR Maudsley BRC Trainees’ Conference
- See the presentation here
2020 BAP Junior Clinical Psychopharmacology Award
- This singular award is given to a young clinical researcher whose research is judged to be both excellent and leading to new insights relevant to clinical practice
2012 Association of Physicians Undergraduate Studentship 2011/12 for the MRes in Medical Sciences course, Association of Physicians
- A studentship awarded by the MRes programme to facilitate the work of two outstanding students
2012 Intellectual Disability Forum Student Prize, The Royal Society of Medicine
Grants and Fellowship Awards
2019 - current MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship, personal award (£251,153, MR/T000902/1)
“Investigating the Placebo Response in Psychiatry”
2016 - 2018 RMC ACF Project Funding, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, personal award (£9500)
“The Placebo Response in Trials of Anxiety and Depression”
External Invited Talks
2021 Towards Improved Translation of Treatments for Affective and Anxiety Disorders: Placebo Effects and Experimental Medicine Models. BAP Summer Meeting, Online.
2021 A Modified Trier Social Stress Test Using Videoconferencing Software. University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine Conference, Online.
2019 Why We Need More Research into the Placebo Response in Psychiatry. Southampton Psychiatry Academic Meeting, Southampton.
2019 fMRI Correlates of Peak Response in the 7.5% CO2 Inhalational Model of Generalised Anxiety: A Pilot Study. RCPsych International Congress, London.
2017 Functional Neuroimaging of the Placebo Response in Anxiety and Depression: A Systematic Review. Faculty of General Adult Psychiatry Annual Conference, Newcastle.
2013 Developing a System for Effective Student Representation in a Large Medical School. AMEE International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.
Research Supervision
2021 – current Undergraduate: Ishmaam Chowdhury (BMedSci 3rd Year Project, University of Southampton). Structural imaging markers of response to the 7.5% CO2 inhalational model of generalised anxiety.
2021 – current Undergraduate: Yasmin Hussein (BMedSci 3rd Year Project, University of Southampton). Resting functional imaging markers of response to the 7.5% CO2 inhalational model of generalised anxiety.
2020 – 2021 Undergraduate: Ireayo Shonibare (BMedSci 3rd Year Project, University of Southampton). Is placebo anxiolysis evident in healthy volunteers with generalised anxiety symptoms induced by 7.5% CO2 inhalation.
2020 – 2021 Undergraduate: Alexander McEwan (BMedSci 3rd Year Project, University of Southampton). Inducing social anxiety symptoms with a novel online paradigm.
Academic Service
Editorial Board Membership
- European Neuropsychopharmacology
Ad-hoc Peer Review
- Psychological Medicine
- Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
- European Neuropsychopharmacology
- International Clinical Psychopharmacology
- Journal of Psychopharmacology
- Brain and Behavior
- Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental
Grant Review
- United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Departmental Service
- Peer review of protocols and ethical approval applications
Professional Societies
- Member of the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP)
- Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych)
- Registered medical practitioner with the General Medical Council (GMC, 7408947)
Additional Training and Skills
Experimental Medicine
Conducting trials with pharmaceuticals in healthy volunteers including administration of experimental medicine models such as the Oxford ETB and the 7.5% CO2 inhalational model of generalised anxiety.
Cognitive Neuroscience
Proficient in: collection of behavioural measures including questionnaires and task-based measures, collection of psychophysiology data including heart rate variability, collecting and analysing structural and functional MRI, statistical analysis, manuscript preparation and submission. I have some additional experience in: analysis of resting-state EEG, behavioural task design, PsychoPy.
Computing
Experience in: Matlab, Shell scripting, Python, R, MarkDown. Version control of datasets with DataLad and Git.
Mental Health Act
Approved under section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act as having special expertise in the diagnosis or treatment of mental disorder (2018 - ).