I am a Consultant Psychiatrist with substantial experience in forensic, general adult, rehabilitation and neuropsychiatry services. I have expertise in the assessment and treatment of people with highly complex needs, especially those who have experienced significant trauma.

I am an Executive Committee Member of the Faculty of Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry at the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

I read medicine at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge and King’s College, University of London. I completed specialist training in General Adult and Rehabilitation Psychiatry at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

I was also previously a psychiatrist with the charity and human rights organisation ‘Freedom From Torture’.

My qualifications are Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS),
Master of Arts in Natural Sciences (Experimental Psychology) (MA, Cantab), and
Master of Laws (LLM) in Mental Health Law awarded with commendation from the
University of Northumbria.

I obtained Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2012, am approved
for the purposes of section 12 (2) of the Mental Health Act 1983 and am an Approved Clinician within the meaning of that Act.

I have worked as a consultant psychiatrist since 2016 and have worked as a substantive consultant in a number of psychiatric subspecialties, including general adult (rehabilitation), forensic psychiatry and neuropsychiatry.

I have worked as a consultant in a specialist Forensic Brain Injury service and have expertise in neuropsychiatry and acquired brain injury. I have further expertise in working with people with personality disorders, and people affected by torture and other extreme trauma, including refugees and asylum seekers.

I have published in peer reviewed psychiatric journals and have presented work at national and international conferences. I am regularly instructed to provide medico-legal expert reports in a diverse range of areas including housing, immigration and criminal law.

Areas include:

• Schizophrenia, Psychosis, Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar Affective Disorder, Personality Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
• General mental health conditions (civil and social legal issues including occupational/work related matters).
• General mental health conditions (forensic and criminal legal issues).
• Acquired brain injury (civil, immigration and criminal issues) including traumatic brain injury, stroke and other neuropsychiatric disorders (stroke, Huntington’s Disease), Epilepsy and mental health.
• Personal Injury, Post-traumatic stress disorder and related legal issues.
• Immigration, detention, deportation, torture and asylum cases.
• Assessment of mental capacity including testamentary capacity.
• Fitness to plead and stand trial.
• Capacity to form intent.
• Insanity defence.
• Competence to give evidence (vulnerable victims of and witnesses to crime).
• Second opinions including for Mental Health Act matters such as Mental Health Tribunals and the Upper Tribunal.
• Addictions and substance misuse in relation to mental health.