About me

Having qualified as a doctor in 1986, I completed my specialist psychiatry training in Oxford, Cambridge and London. I was appointed as a Consultant in Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry in 1997 and I have over 20 years of experience as a psychiatrist. I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and I was the Clinical Director of a very successful child and adolescent mental health service.

I was previously an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London, and a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Health Research at the University of Bedfordshire and a Visiting Professor at the Post-Graduate Medical Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. I have won prizes and research grants linked to service-oriented developments within the NHS, some of which are now national practice. I have also published several textbooks and journal articles, mainly relating to young people with subtle neuro-developmental difficulties.