Luke Solomons, MBBS MRCPsych

Dr Luke Solomons is a Specialist Registrar at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust based at Guys Hospital, London. His special interests include geriatric medicine and sleep medicine. He is involved in research on sleep and memory, liaison psychiatry in the acute hospital and with the Helicopter Emergency Services (HEMS) and shares a passion for holistic care of his patients with his co-authors.

Jim Crabb, MBBS, MRCPsych

Dr Jim Crabb is a Specialist Registrar in psychiatry based in Glasgow. He has a special interest in developing mental health services in parts of the world with minimal services, particularly West Africa. He is joint author of 'Essential Skills for mental health care' a manual that explains how general health workers in West Africa can safely diagnose and treat mental illness and epilepsy with the resources available locally. Copies of the manual can be downloaded free of charge from the following link http://www.basicneeds.org/ghana/ghana2.asp.

Working in Africa gave Jim a crash course in physical medicine and emphasised to him that first and foremost psychiatrists need to be good doctors. This has lead to his interest in improving his own medical skills and those of other psychiatrists, from which 'Don't Shrink from ECGs' was born.

Email: jcrabb1@nhs.net

Adrian Treloar, MBBS, MRCP, MRCGP, MRCPsych

Dr Adrian Treloar is Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. He is a former GP and also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He was Clinical Tutor of his Trust for nine years and thought that doctors of all grades ought to be able to become better at some aspects of physical healthcare. He is also actively researching palliative care of dementia as well as being involved in a number of multi-centre trials.

Email: adrian.treloar@oxleas.nhs.uk