Celebrating 10 years of KCMHR
The King's Centre for Military Health (KCMHR) celebrated its 10th birthday yesterday at a special event in King's College London, attended by over 150 guests. The celebrations focussed on the past, present and future health and wellbeing of the serving and ex-serving Armed Forces and their families. The event was opened by King's Principal Professor Ed Byrne and the government Minister for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans, Anna Soubry MP. Professor Byrne said: "KCMHR brings together some of the key strengths at King's and is genuinely multi-disciplinary. Since starting 10 years ago it has produced 400 high quality scientific publications in leading journals and has earned the trust of politicians, the Forces, charities, healthcare and the media. "The Academic Department of Defence Mental Health, based alongside KCMHR, is staffed by serving military personnel who wear their uniforms with pride around King's most days of the week. We live in an uncertain world, but ongoing academic high quality research will always be relevant when it comes to supporting and improving health and wellbeing of our forces current and veterans." Anna Soubry MP said: "I'd like to congratulate King's on 10 years of consistently well informed, evidence-based work into Military Health.
