After completing clinical psychiatry training on the Maudsley rotation in South London, I became consultant for a general adult out-patient community caseload in a deprived inner city area of North London. In April 2011 I joined the largest neuropsychiatry department in the UK at St Andrew’s Healthcare, Northampton. Since then I have broadened my clinical experience in the male and female brain injury pathways, utilising a neurobehavioural treatment model to facilitate rehabilitation and also working within the dementia pathway. As lead clinician for the Huntington’s disease (HD) pathway, I have led the subsequent development of HD services for the charity, drawing from my experience with the UK’s leading tertiary centre for HD at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square, London. I am principal investigator for the Northampton site of the international ENROLL HD study. I am actively involved in tutoring, lecturing and supervising both MSc and undergraduate medical students. Following an intercalated BSc in Psychology I decided to pursue research and was a clinical research fellow at UCL Institute of Neurology where I completed my PhD in 2014. Working alongside the West London First Episode Psychosis Study team I gathered structural MRI data and performed subsequent analyses. Intrigued by my neurology colleagues studying visual function in multiple sclerosis, I decided to investigate visual function in schizophrenia and obtained independent funding from the Henry Smith Charity. I was subsequently able to return to UCL Institute of Neurology as a senior clinical research fellow to work independently on my own project. During my term as elected committee member to the Faculty of Neuropsychiatry, I became Founder and Chair of the Movement Disorders Working Group presenting and organising sessions at various conference meetings.
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