Meet the Team

Prof Frank Rohricht has implemented a 5-year plan to:

• explore and develop the synergism between research, innovation & education for the benefit of service users
• link effectively QI and Research
• reinforce the notion of academic psychiatry and ‘psychosomatics’ in education & services
• promote collaboration, co-production & inclusion (across all dimensions, groups, stakeholders)
• Improve the experience of all people accessing care (focussing on positive therapeutic relationships)
• Develop innovative experiential learning tools (multi-professional learning utilising Service User lived experiences)
• Increase number of students and fill postgraduate posts (tackling stigma and enhance psychiatry’s image)
• Improve the training experience
• Faculty development “All teach – all learn” moto

She is also a designated medical practitioner for nurses on non-medical prescriber course and supported international medical graduates as part of CAPE - Clinical Attachment Programme for the East of England. She works as an Older Adults Consultant Psychiatrist at Bedford Memory Assessment service and inpatient unit at Fountains Court.

His involvement with MRCPsych goes back 20 years where he initially prepared for it as a core trainee, then he joined the MRCPsych Standard Setting Panel as a trainee representative and thereafter carried on.

Dr Rahul sits in the psychiatry Curriculum Revision Working Group and the Examination Sub-Committee for the Royal College.

Dr Hugh has a longstanding interest in medical education and is part way through a MA in Medical Education which focuses on the role the arts have to play in medical student wellbeing. He also has interests in asylum seeker/refugee mental health and sustainable healthcare. 

She is committed to encouraging wider involvement with undergraduate teaching as it is crucial to destigmatising psychiatry and psychiatric patients, improving communication within the medical profession and future recruitment to the specialty.

In my role as LTFT champion I support trainees in the trust around flexible working.  This includes providing support to individual trainees, as well as addressing concerns via our trust LTFT forum. Both roles have given me the opportunity to start to create real culture change regarding flexibility for doctors in the NHS.

She works closely with the University of Cambridge medical school in order to organise psychiatric placements for Year 5 medical students as well as clinical tutorials for Year 6. She aims to give medical students an experience of psychiatry that they will value and use independent of their future specialty choice and also give psychiatry the chance it deserves amongst their preferences.

Dr Muffazal Rawala is the one who with his counterpart in Bedford is responsible for the junior doctors induction, ensuring their time in Psychiatry is a rewarding one and they are able to meet their identified competencies. 

He is a Clinical Supervisor for Core and Higher trainees in forensic psychiatry and an Educational Supervisor for core trainees on the North East London Core Training Scheme rotation. Since 21017, he has been an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry and regularly teaches undergraduate and postgraduates student and trainees.

He is responsible for overseeing the core trainees training programing to ensure high quality training is being delivered as well as arranging and delivering the local induration and the academic teaching programme.

He is involved in overseeing the local academic programme and trainee induction in Tower Hamlets, fostering high-quality training and learning opportunities, and working with Training Programme Directors to monitor the progress of trainees through the Core Training scheme.

Dr Ahmad has to ensure that the posts, educational supervision, assessment and training within the scheme is continually improving and innovating whilst maintaining the core expectations of training. This means liaising with the education faculty in both Trusts, the medical managers, medical education managers, directors of medical education, Royal College and Health Education England. 

He organises the Specialty Trainee Regional Training Days and chairs ARCP panels. 

Dr Ian Hall has led on a series of service developments in the Trust’s learning disability services. 

Ian is also Chief Examiner at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Previous roles at the College include Associate Dean for Conferences and Advanced Learning, Chair of the MRCPsych CASC Panel, Chair of the Faculty of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability, and Chair of the Parliamentary Liaison Committee. 

Sonia welcomes trainees to contact her if you have any problems during your psychiatry placements so that we can put things right and make any potential changes that may be indicated.

Sonia initially started her journey with ELFT in March 2019 when she was appointed as the Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist for Luton and Bedfordshire which involved developing this new service.

She is also responsible for organising academic programmes, teaching and courses. Sharmin has lead admin responsibility for the monthly Barts academic afternoons, AC/s12 courses and higher training teaching programmes for the ID and General adult and Old age schemes.