Last Updated: 05/02/2010

Alcohol, drugs and substance misuse panel

ALCOHOL/ DRUGS/ SUBSTANCE MISUSE PANEL	CLINICAL INTERESTS	PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATES	ACADEMIC/ RESEARCH	COMMERCIAL	OTHER
GILVARRY Dr E	Consultant Psychiatrist in addictions and assistant medical director Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Trust	Fellow Royal College of Psychiatrists College of Physicians in Ireland Member: Royal College of General Practitioners Society for the study of addictions Alcohol health alliance	Brief interventions in the treatment of alcohol problems. Treatment of young people substance misuse problems.	Medico legal work as expert witness in family court and civil courts and with regulatory authorities e.g. GMC.	None
LOWE Dr A	Consultant Psychiatrist in Addictive Behaviour	Member: Substance Misuse Faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists Society for the study of Addiction	Evaluation of educational programmes in Dual Diagnosis Supervised consumption trial	None	None
SEIVEWRIGHT Dr N	Consultant Psychiatrist in Substance Misuse, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust	Member: Royal College of Psychiatrists, Society for the Study of Addiction International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, British & Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorders, Royal Society of Medicine	Author of approximately 70 academic papers and a textbook on the related subjects of substance misuse and psychiatric disorders.	Medico-legal work, maintaining childcare protection and for General Medical Council	None
RICE Dr P	Consultant Psychiatrist, NHS Tayside Honorary Senior Lecturer, Unversity of Dundee	Vice Chair: Scottish Division Royal College of Psychiatrists Alcohol Focus Scotland. Executive Member: Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems.	Current Interests: Brief Interventions in Dental Practice. Social Inequalities and Alcohol Related Harm.	None	None
FORREST Professor A R W	Honorary Professor of Forensic Chemistry, University of Sheffield Honorary Professor Faculty of Health & Welfare, Sheffield Hallam University Assistant Deputy Coroner, South Yorks (West) & East Riding of Yorkshire with Kingston Upon Hull	Fellow: Royal College of Physicians of London & Edinburgh Royal College of Pathologists (member of Specialist Advisory Committee for Toxicology Royal Society of Chemistry Forensic Science Society Member: Society of Forensic Toxicologists International Association of Forensic Toxicologists American Academy of Forensic Science Coroners Society of England & Wales.	Specific markers of recent heroin use in biological fluids. Contaminants of illicit drugs. Novel markers for recent alcohol use. Forensic use of hair analyses Prevalence and nature of "Legal High" use	Regularly appears as an Expert Witness in the Criminal and Coroners’ Courts and very occasionally in the Civil Courts in cases where impairment or death as a result of alcohol or drug use is an issue.	None
WOLFF Dr K	None	Member: Society for the Study of Addiction International Association of Forensic Toxicologists (TIAFT) Association of Clinical Biochemists	Reader in Addiction Studies King's College London Author of approximately 100 articles on substance misuse and biomarkers of use Specific markers of alcohol use Recreational drug use Identification of designer drugs	None	None
SHERON Dr N	Head of Clinical Hepatology, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust	Fellow: Royal College of Physicians Member: British Association for the Study of Liver Disease American Association for the Study of Liver Disease European Association for the Study of Liver Disease British Society for the Study of Gastroenterology	Assistant Editor – Addiction EU Alcohol Forum EU Commission Taskforce on Alcohol Marketing Royal College of Physicians Alcohol Health Alliance UK Secretary Review Board on Liver Disease Alcohol Concern Professional Advisory Group Trustee: Drinkaware Trust DoH Internal Advisor on new liver services framework Research interests: Alcohol and liver disease	None	None
CHECINSKI Dr K	Consultant Psychiatrist, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust	Fellow: Royal College of Psychiatrists Member: Society for the Study of Addiction Addictions Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.	Senior Lecturer in Addictive Behaviour, St George’s, University of London.	None	None
BRIND Dr A	Consultant Physician with an interest in Gastroenterology, University Hospital of North Staffordshire Visiting Consultant, The Liver Unit, university Hospital Birmingham	Fellow: Royal College of Physicians Member: British Association for the Study of the liver European Association for the Study of the liver American Association for the Study of the liver British Association of Gastroenterology Medical council on alcoholism	Liver disease	None	None
MOBERLY Mrs P	None	None	None	None	Chairman, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. Justice of the Peace.
CAVE Ms J	None	Director of Public Affairs for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents	None	None	None