Title: Consultant Psychiatrist
Specialty: Schizophrenia; Psychotic Illness; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; General Psychiatry; Depression; Bipolar Disorder; Anxiety Disorders;
Alan has published more than 27 articles in the field largely on mood disorders, bipolar disorder and depression, one of his publications having received more than 350 scientific citations alone.
A list of his publications can be viewed here.
Clinical Areas: Bipolar Disorders, Depression, All Adult Mental Health.
Locations: London and Oxford
A psychiatrist who trained in Edinburgh and Cambridge including with the Medical Research Council and University of Cambridge. Alan lives in Oxford UK where he has worked as a clinician and in Oxford University. He divides his time between Oxford and London and is available for consultation at either location.
Alan has a broad experience in adult psychiatry having had input at NHS consultant level to general practices covering central Oxford and much of the University for a number of years and before this when living in Cambridge. He is happy to accept referrals for assessment across a wide range of mental health problems.
Alan's special interest and expertise is in the understanding and treatment of bipolar disorders. He has been involved in the care of many hundreds of people with this problem including a period being responsible for running a specialist treatment unit in Cambridge for treatment resistant bipolar disorder and depression. He has published more than 28 articles in the area. He has been a clinical expert adviser to the UK National Library for Health Mental Health Specialist Library and has taught at undergraduate and post-graduate levels in Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities. He has appeared on the BBC and independent broadcast media relating to his work to do with both bipolar disorder and genetic susceptibility to mood disorders as well as medical ethics.
Alan was involved as founding director of Equilibrium -the Bipolar Foundation (http://www.bipolar-foundation.org) which launched in 2007 as a spin-out from Oxford University Department of Psychiatry. This organisation has a membership network of almost 4000 and has had contacts from more than 167 countries since it launched. Stephen Fry is it's International Ambassador.
Web www.bipolar-foundation.org (team)
email alan.ogilvie@capio.co.uk