DEGREES AND DIPLOMAS
Bsc (Anatomy) Class 1, 1971 (UCL)
MB. BS. London. 1974
MRCP (UK), 1977
MRCPsych, 1983
Associate Member of the Institute of Family Therapy, 1987
MD (University of London), 1993
FRCPsych 1996
FRCP 2001
MA Fine Art (Photography) London Metropolitan University 2013
SFHEA Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2021
POSTS HELD
PRESENT POSTS
2019- Consultant psychiatrist and Director of Research and Development, Orri-UK, London
2021- current Professor (Teaching) University College London
2023- Honorary consultant psychiatrist, Gastroenterology dept, UCLH
2012-present: Specialist advisor to Health Ombudsmen
APPRAISAL AND REVALIDATION
I am on the GMC medical and specialist register as a General and Community Psychiatrist. I have had annual appraisals and my last clinical and academic appraisal was on 3/7/2023. I have had two revalidations, the last one in 2019.
PUBLICATIONS
My publications including 4 books and 9 book chapters are on control of food intake, provision of services for and treatment of eating disorders, Severe and Enduring Eating Disorders, Medical management of severe eating disorders and mentalization based therapies in eating disorders. I have chaired groups which have produced three Royal College of Psychiatrists Council Reports, 1992, 2001, 2010 (revised 2014, 2022) and have contributed to two others in 2005 and 2012. I am senior author and originator of a widely accepted guidance called MARSIPAN (Management of Really Sick Patients with Anorexia Nervosa published in 2010 and revised in 2014. It has now undergone a major revision published on 19/5/22 and is called MEED (Medical Emergencies in Eating Disorders). I am editor in chief of a forthcoming Springer book “Eating Disorders: A comprehensive international view” which will have 90 chapters and over 150 authors. I have published over 90 peer reviewed articles.