About Me

I am a consultant in perinatal psychiatry with an endorsement in liaison psychiatry, I have a background in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and a DPhil in neuroscience. I trained in Infant Mental Health with Dr PO Svanberg (Care Index and Parent-Infant Interaction Observation Scale). With the help of my liaison psychiatry and maternity colleagues, I established the Perinatal Mental Health Service at St Mary’s Hospital, London, in 2009 . I have been heavily involved in perinatal mental health service development. I chaired the North West London division of the London Perinatal Mental Health Network (NHS England) from 2015 to 2022, I was Perinatal Clinical Lead at Central North West London Foundation Trust (2017-2020); I was a member of the Perinatal Faculty Executive and the Perinatal Quality Network Advisory Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the College representative for the Maternal Mental Health Alliance (2015-2018). I am the creative director of the animation movie “Building Better Perinatal Mental Health Services” and the lead author of the Pre-conception advice: Best Practice Toolkit for Perinatal Mental Health Services (2019 – NHSE). I contribute regularly to perinatal & infant mental health training to allied professionals, charity organisations and to academic teaching programs. I am a trainer for the Parent Infant Interaction Observation Scale course at Warwick University Medical School. I am an advocate of the arts, especially music, in health care. In 2020 I was appointed to the board of trustees of the Association of Infant Mental Health UK and the Brazelton UK. In another life, I would have liked to be a children’s book illustrator.

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