Dr Julia Lewis

Dr Julia Lewis is a consultant Addiction Psychiatrist working in the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board as the clinical lead for a complex needs, NHS addiction service. She is also visiting professor at the University of South Wales and Clinical Lead for Addictions within NHS Wales Performance and Improvement, developing alcohol treatment services across Wales.

Julia has worked as a consultant in addictions for over 20 years and during that time has been a member of working groups producing a number of national guidelines, including Drug misuse and dependence: guidelines on clinical management and the Clinical guidelines for alcohol treatment. She is a member of Welsh Government’s National Implementation Board for Substance Misuse and their National Implementation Board for Drug Poisoning Prevention. Julia was one of the authors of the Welsh National Treatment Framework for Alcohol Related Brain Damage.

Julia has been a member of the addiction’s executive for a number of years, most recently taking the lead on alcohol policy, representing the college on the Alcohol Health Alliance. She lectures on both the psychology masters and criminology masters courses at the University of South Wales and trains health and social care practitioners across the UK on Alcohol Related Brain Damage.

Julia is a published playwright with over fifteen plays performed to date in theatres across South Wales. She is a director of the charity the ARBD Network, an organisation aiming to increase awareness of ARBD amongst health and social care professionals, families and carers, and patients with ARBD.