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Current NHS consultant posts held

Present Position: Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical tutor

Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust -since June 2014-covering Enhanced Pathway Coastal and Central IDTs ( Trating Schizhophrenia,Bipolar Affective Disorder,Depressive Disorders,Anxiety Disorders with special expertise in managing Personality Disorders )along with East Suffolk Eating Disorder services,Ipswich

Research interests

Research

Current Research: One of the principle investigators of an ongoing  research at university of Cambridge regarding Obssessive Compulsive Disorder.Proposal as follows;

The proposed research intends to build upon previous work on OCD, inhibition and habit learning in our lab. Repetitive obsessive thoughts and compulsivity are key characteristics of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Recently published work has shown that OCD patients have a tendency towards habitual learning, at the expense of goal-directed learning (3). This means that their behaviour is less flexible in light of changes in outcome value and contingencies between actions and outcomes (4). Gillan et al (2011) however, investigated habit in an appetitive context. In the case of OCD, compulsions are avoidant and not appetitive. i.e. patients perform compulsions to reduce the likelihood of adverse consequences, not to gain rewarding outcomes (e.g. as per drug/gambling addiction).

Personal interests

I take pride in working with service users ,carers and their organisations.Last Christmas I organized an event for service users and their carers with chronic mental illness and we all enjoyed our Christmas dinner together with various social and charity fund raising events. We agreed that this will be repeated every year as this helps in the wellbeing of patients and carers in the positive direction.

Awards received

Fellowship of Psychiatry from Royal College of Psychiatry -2019
Writing Short story-won national level award in 2015
Writing Essays-won national level award in 2015     
Listening to classical music

Courses offered to GPs

Every year I offer free talks biannually as part of CPD programme arranged by Nuffield hospital.