About the authors

Amit Nigam MBBS, MSc, MRCPsych

 

Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at the West London Forensic Service on both the in-patient unit and on the Westminster Community Forensic Service.

 

Dr Nigam has a special interest in obsessive-compulsive disorder. 

 

Email: acnigam@hotmail.com

 

Declaration of interests: None 

 

 


Lynne Drummond MBChB, MRCP (UK), FRCPsych

 

Dr Lynne DrummondConsultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer, South West London and St George's NHS Mental Health Trust.

 

Dr Drummond is the Lead Clinician for the nationally commissioned service for severe, enduring obsessive-compulsive and body dysmorphic disorders (OCD/BDD) and also for trustwide services for OCD/BDD and other severe neurotic conditions.

 

Specialising particularly in CBT, Dr Drummond has published widely in the fields of OCD; anxiety disorders; communication skills; learning and acquisition of skills. She has a long standing involvement in medical education. More recently, she has become involved in management and leadership training and has published on these areas.

 

Email: lynnemd@sgul.ac.uk

 

Declaration of interests: None 

 

 


Naomi Fineberg MBBS, MA, MRCPsych

Professor Naomi FinebergConsultant Psychiatrist and Visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire.

 

Based at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn Garden City, UK, Professor Fineberg leads a national specialist treatment service for OCD. She heads the NICE Psychopharmacology Guideline Subgroup for OCD, advises the British Association for Psychopharmacology on Guidelines for Treating Anxiety Disorders and sits on the APA Anxiety Disorders sub-group for DSM V.  Professor Fineberg has a substantial track record in the investigation of the neurobiology and treatment of OCD and a special interest in clinical trial design.  Her research includes evaluation of neurocognitive and radiological endophenotypes, pharmacological responses and bio-rhythm disturbances in anxiety, OCD and comorbid disorders.

 

Email: naomi.fineberg@btinternet.com

 

Declaration of interests: Professor Fineberg has received sponsorship for:

 

  • consultancy work, from Servier, Lundbeck, Glaxo-Smith Kline, Astra-Zeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb

 

  • lectures, from Astra-Zeneca, Jazz Pharmaceuticals

 

  • educational support,  from Janssen, Lundbeck, Bristol-Myers Squibb,
    Wyeth, Servier, Jazz.
 

Sanjay Nelson MBBS, MRCPsych

ST4 in the Waltham Forest Learning Disability Team, North East London Mental
Health Trust.

 

Dr Nelson has a special interest in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

 

Email: drsanjaynelson@yahoo.co.in

 

Declaration of interests: None 

 

Joanne Farrow BM, MRCPsych

Staff Grade in general adult psychiatry at the Shrodells Unit, Watford.

 

Dr Farrow has a special interest in the psychopharmacology of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

 

Email: joannemfarrow@hotmail.com

 

Declaration of interests: None 

 

 


Ali Al-Allaq MBChB, MRCPsych

Locum specialist registrar in old age psychiatry at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

 

Email: alijewadal_allaq@hotmail.com

 

Declaration of interests: None

 

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