Title: Consultant Psychiatrist
Specialty: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Personality Disorder; Drug and Alcohol Addiction; Depression; Bipolar Disorder; Anxiety and Stress; Adult ADHD;
Chris graduated in medicine from Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Medical School. He completed his post-graduate training in General Adult and Addiction Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, the National Self-Harm service and National Alcohol Unit.
As well as training in CBT for 4 years at the Maudsley Hospital department of psychotherapy he completed further training at the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre.
He was a supervisor and tutor on the Institute of Psychiatry’s Addiction Sciences MSc course and is currently responsible for training psychiatrists and undergraduate students from Imperial Medical College.
His research at the Institute of Psychiatry included using functional neuroimaging to define appetitive reward pathways in the brain implicated in addiction. This and some of his other work have been presented at national and international conferences.
He has a particular interest in ADHD and has set up an adult ADHD service for South London and the Maudsley in 2009. He is currently consultant for psychiatric admissions at Charing Cross Hospital.