Adult ADHD Foundation Course

Dr Hank was instrumental in the development of an electronic ADHD Tool for the Measurement of Outcomes (ATMOS) and he is involved in pilot work to roll out of ADHD into Primary Care in the wider Bristol area.  

Dr. Mohammad Arif

Dr Mohammad Arif is a General Adult Psychiatrist, currently working as a Locum Consultant in Therapy Services for People with Personality Disorder in Leicester. He initially trained and worked as a psychiatrist in Pakistan.

After attending the International Scholarship Programme in Child Psychiatry in the USA, he took the initiative to set up a Child Psychiatric Service at Dow Medical University, Civil Hospital Karachi, Pakistan.

Dr Arif moved to the UK in 1994 and went on to establish a service for adults with ADHD in Leicester in 2002. His key areas of interest include psychotherapy, personality disorders, and trauma.

Dr Jessica Eccles

Dr Eccles is an award-winning researcher and a neurodevelopmental psychiatrist specialising in the links between brain and body, especially as they relate to flexible joints (hypermobility). She trained in medicine at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. As well as her University position at Brighton and Sussex Medical School as Associate Professor (Reader) in Brain-Body Medicine in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, she works in the Sussex NHS Neurodevelopmental Service (ADHD, Autism and Tourette syndrome) where she and colleagues have set up the world’s first Neurodivergent Brain Body Clinic. She has been working on the intersect between hypermobility and neurodivergence since she first came to work at Brighton and Sussex medical school in Neuroscience in 2009. She chairs the Royal College of Psychiatrist’s Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry Special Interest Group – bringing together neurodevelopmental clinicians across the country. She hopes to challenge stereotypes and encourage curiosity.

Kobus van Rensburg

Kobus van Rensburg has more than 32 years’ experience in the field of neurodevelopmental conditions. Between 2003 and 2023 he was the Team Leader of the Adult ADHD, Autism and Tourette’s Team in Northamptonshire which he established as one of the first community teams of its kind in the UK. He is currently in full-time private practice at www.adhdlifespanclinic.com.
He is President of UKAAN, the UK Adult ADHD Network where he delivers the diagnosis and assessment of adult ADHD training to delegates from across the world. He also designed and delivers the psychosocial support and skills training for Adult ADHD training through UKAAN since 2019.
Kobus has presented at numerous national and international conferences across Europe on the diagnosis and treatment of developmental conditions, the Language of ADHD and establishing services for adults with ADHD and Autism.

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Dr Ruth Marlow

Ruth has worked with Adults with ADHD for over 10 years offering numerous psychological interventions. She has led a group of psychologists in the Devon Adult ADHD service working with people to help them with their ADHD, alongside the wider medical team.

Professor Raja Mukherjee is an Adult Learning Disability Consultant Psychiatrist for Surrey and Border’s Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, with interest in the management of developmental disorders across the lifespan. In September 2009 he started the first NHS based specialist Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders behavioural clinic.  He has also acted as an invited advisor to the BMA board of science, The Department of Health to the first All Party Parliamentary Group on FASD at the House of commons.He has continued to support national clinical developments related to FASD. Prof Mukherjee is a member of the NICE quality standards group for FASD. He is currently the only UK representative to a US, NIH sponsored initiative to consider the research criteria for FASD. 

In wider work, he is currently Clinical Lead for Adult neurodevelopmental services provided by Surrey and Borders including Adult ASD and ADHD services across Surrey. He is an executive committee member and Finance Office of the RCPsych SIG on neurodevelopmental disorders, and an Executive member of the ID Faculty. Prof Mukherjee was awarded an MBE for his work related to FASD in the Kings Birthday Honours list in June 2023. 

Dr Ulrich Müller-Sedgwick

Ulrich Müller-Sedgwick, works for the Government of Jersey as consultant psychiatrist and is a member of the Neuroinclusive Jersey Strategy steering group.  In 2024 he was appointed as ADHD Champion by the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) and sits on their Psychopharmacology Committee and the Executive committee of the Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry Special Interest Group (NDPSIG). As media spokesperson on ADHD he has been interviewed on live radio (BBC Radio 4 PM, Radio 5 Drive), by newspapers (Financial Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Times) and magazines (BBC Music, Enable, Good Housekeeping, New Scientist).

He is a founding executive committee member (since 2008) and former president (2019-21) of the UK Adult ADHD Network (www.UKAAN.org). He has contributed to NICE guidance and NHS England guidance & policy on ADHD. He is a regular speaker at national training events and international scientific conferences.  Ulrich comes from and married into another neurodiverse family. In his free time, he enjoys family and outdoor activities, plays the viola in several orchestras and investigates the link between musical creativity and neurodiversity. 

Mr Scott Adams, 32, was diagnosed with ADHD at age 20, as a student, after years of disruption and lack of focus in school. Since then, he's been on a journey with medication, calming his mind and nervous system, and integrating knowledge of his ADHD into his life. He now works as an executive at a leading AI Lab.