| Occupation: | Consultant Psychiatrist and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Qualifications: | BA, MPhil, MD, FRCP, FRCPsych
| Explanation of | Qualifications: Bachelor of Arts | Master of Philosophy Doctor of Medicine Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Organisation: | Imperial College School of Medicine | Address: |
Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine |
Imperial College Faculty of Medicine Charing Cross Hospital St Dunstan's Road London W6 8RF (View Location Map) (View Aerial Photo) Office Telephone: | 020 8846 7342 (Sec. : Suzie Dowd) | Mobile: | 07968 065464 | Fax: | 020 8846 7794 | Email: |
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(none at present) | Areas of Expertise: |
General adult psychiatry | Psychopathology and psychiatric disorders Anxiety disorders and depression (psychiatry) Trauma sequelae (psychiatry including personal injury) Personal injury (psychiatric aspects) Victims of accident, assault or crime (psychiatry) War veterans (psychiatry) PTSD / Post-traumatic stress disorder (psychiatry) Psychosomatic disorders and Munchausen Personality disorders and psychoses Violence, self harm and suicide Offender psychiatric assessment Fitness to plead (psychiatric assessment) Witness assessment and testamentary capacity Trauma assessment (psychiatric) Abnormal behaviour (psychiatric assessment) Mental disorder (psychiatric assessment) Psychiatric care Psychiatry ethics, competence and misadventure Neuropsychiatry Medical competence and negligence Medical malpractice and accidents Prescribing and dispensing errors Chronic fatigue syndrome Schizophrenia (including cognitive deficiency in elderly schizophrenics) Psychophysiology as applied to schizophrenia Brain imaging research as applied to schizophrenia Dizziness and loss of consciousness (psychiatric aspects) Memory impairment and epilepsy Psychopharmacology Organic psychiatry Insurance or insurability Background :- Professor Steven Hirsch is a Consultant in adult psychiatry, with broad clinical responsibilities. He was Professor and Head of Department of Psychiatry at Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School and is now Professor Emeritus at Imperial College Faculty of Medicine. Having started his career as a social psychiatrist, he gradually transferred his interest to biological psychiatry in the late1980's. He is widely published on social, biological, clinical and service research - and is the author of over 300 abstracts, chapters and refereed publications and several books. He is co-editor of 'Schizophrenia' (Blackwell, 1996. 2nd ed. 2003), the standard text on the subject (info) He has had extensive experience in providing opinions to the GMC, Medical Defence Societies and in civil, criminal, employment and family cases. He is Past Chairman of the Association of Clinical Professors of Psychiatry, the Association of University Professors of Psychiatry, the Psychiatric Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Psycho-Pharmacology sub-committee of the Royal College of Psychiatry. Most recently, he was Director of Teaching Governance at West London Mental Health Trust, until October 2005. Av. no. of new instructions a year : 35 No. of reports written in last 3 years : 80 - 90 No. of court appearances in last 3 years : 6 Geographical area of work : All of UK Memberships of other professional associations : Royal Society of Medicine Royal College of Psychiatry Royal College of Physicians British Medical Association Law Society: |
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