Current groups and working parties

The current groups and their leads are:

• Newsletter: Dr Angela Hassiotis
• Public Education Strategy: Dr Anton Canagasabey
• Website: Dr Bala Raju
• Academic Programme: Dr Asit Biswas
• Training and Professional Development: Dr Jo Jones
  Legislation: Dr Ian Hall
  Policy Issues: Dr Gill Bell and Dr Angela Hassiotis
• Regional Representatives: Dr Richard Lansdall-Welfare and Dr Geoff Marston
  

There are also some working parties around specific projects:

• Future roles of psychiatrists in Leaning Disability: Dr Sabyasachi Bhaumik
• LD/Old Age interface: Dr Sabyasachi Bhaumik
• International links: Dr Sabyasachi Bhaumik
• Involvement of users: Dr Raymond Jacques
• Carer involvement: Dr Shaun Gravestock
• Workforce: Dr Regi Alexander
• BME issues: Dr Satheesh Gangadharan
• LD/Forensic interface: Dr Harm Boer
• Payment by Results: Dr Ashok Roy

The Executive Committee members represent the Faculty on various College bodies, committees and working groups:

• CEC: Dr Sabyasachi Bhaumik
• Confidentiality: Dr Tom Berney
• Parliamentary Liaison: Dr Ian Hall
• Programmes and Meetings: Dr Asit Biswas
• Public Education: Dr Anton Canagasabey

Faculty representation in other committees

Others are on the Executive Committee to act as formal links with other groups:

• SAS doctors: Dr Talib Abbas
• Psychiatric Trainees Committee: Dr Salim Razak
• Specialist Registrars in LD: Dr Vishwa Radnakrishnan 

Executive Members also act as formal and informal links with other Faculties, Sections and external groups:

• Faculty Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Dr Pru Allington-Smith and Dr Tom Berney
• Faculty Forensic Psychiatry: Dr Harm Boer
• Faculty General and Community Psychiatry: Dr Shaun Gravestock
• Faculty Psychiatry of Old Age: Dr Sabyasachi Bhaumik
• Faculty Psychotherapy: Dr Roger Banks
• Faculty Addictions: Dr Helen Miller
• Eating Disorders Section: Dr Shaun Gravestock
• Section Liaison Psychiatry: Dr Helen Miller
• Neuropsychiatry Section: Prof Shoumitro Deb
• Perinatal Section: Dr Jane McCarthy
• Section Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry: Dr Shaun Gravestock
• British Psychological Society: Dr Roger Banks
• European Association for Mental Health in Mental Retardation: Dr Roger Banks
• Independent Health Care Association: Dr Ian Hall
• Institute of Psychotherapy and Learning Disability: Dr Roger Banks
• International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability: Professor Gregory O’Brien
• Medical Aspects of Mental Handicap: Dr Roger Banks
  Penrose Society: Prof. Gregory O’Brien
• Royal College of GPs: Dr Roger Banks
• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health: Dr Tom Berney

List of Executive Committee