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Executive committee

Member Year of joining Position
Dr Annabel Price 2021 (E) Chair
Dr Alexander Thomson 2021 (E) Vice Chair
Prof. Tayyeb Tahir 2019 (E) Financial Officer
Dr Chloe Beale 2021 (E) Committee Member
Dr Mayurkumar Bodani 2019 (C) Committee Member
Dr Jim Bolton 2021 (C) Immediate Past Chair
Dr Sarah Brown 2021 (C) Committee Member
Dr Gemma Buston 2022 (C) PTC Rep
Dr Janet Butler 2019 (E) Committee Member
Dr Peter Byrne 2017 (C) Committee Member
Dr Sanjukta Das 2021 (E) Committee Member
Dr Sarah Eales 2015 (C) Committee Member
Dr Renata Fialho 2022 (C) Committee Member
Dr Ruth Garcia Rodriguez 2022 (C) Committee Member
Dr Jennifer Gilligan 2022 (C) SAS Doctor Representative
Dr Ayman Guirguis 2019 (E) Committee Member
Mr Shaun Hare 2021 (C) Committee Member
Dr Adam Hickson 2021 (C) Sustainability Champion
Dr Mutaz Hussain 2021 (E) Committee Member
Dr Mohamed Ibrahim 2022 (C) Committee Member
Dr Akhtar Khan 2022 (C) Wales
Dr William Lee 2017 (C) Committee Member
Dr Emma Leighton 2021 (C) Committee Member
Dr Deon Louw 2022 (C) Committee Member
Dr Katherine Martin 2020 (C) Committee Member
Ms Emma McAllister 2017 (A) Patient/Carer Representative
Dr Isabel McMullen 2021 (E) Committee Member
Dr Joanne Minay 2012 (C) Northern Ireland
Dr Nida Munawar 2022 (C) Committee Member
Dr Ross Overshott 2021 (C) Committee Member
Dr Maria Paz Timiraos 2022 (C) Committee Member
Dr Emma Phillips 2020 (C) Equality Champion
Dr Parashar Ramanuj 2019 (E) Committee Member
Ms Rebecca Ramsey 2021 (C) Committee Member
Dr Amrit Sachar 2021 (E) Equality Champion
Dr Elizabeth Sampson 2021 (E) Committee Member
Ms Janet Seale 2023 (A) Carers Representative
Dr Prakash Shankar 2020 (C) Scotland
Dr Abhijeeth Shetty 2021 (C) SAC Chair
Dr Murray Smith 2021 (E) Committee Member
Dr Geraldine Swift 2017 (C) Committee Member
Dr Birgit Westphal 2019 (E) Committee Member

Until the 1970s, specific liaison psychiatry services were virtually unknown in Britain. A small number of specialised consultant posts were then established but there was no officially recognised body to represent liaison psychiatry.

Informal discussions between interested clinicians took place in the early 1980s and a consensus emerged that liaison psychiatry would be best served by establishing a group within the College.

A preliminary meeting was held during the College quarterly meeting in Oxford in 1983 followed by a further meeting during the AGM in Edinburgh in 1984. The College then agreed to recognise liaison psychiatry as a special interest group and it became a faculty in 1997.

Liaison psychiatry is a GMC recognised subspecialty of general adult and old age psychiatry.

The paediatric liaison network is an international group of child and adolescent psychiatrists who work with paediatric staff. We discuss clinical and non-clinical issues, particularly policy and the promotion of mental health in paediatric practice.

We meet in conferences in various UK locations twice a year.

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