Consultant Psychiatrist, Birmingham
Dr Thomas became a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1992 and completed an MSc at the University of Wales which included a dissertation on cannabis use in 1993. He spent a year as a researcher attached to a psychiatric unit in New Zealand, before returning to the UK in 1994 to complete his higher psychiatric training at Guy’s Hospital in London. He then went to New Zealand again to work as a Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry for three years before returning to the UK. Dr Thomas left the NHS in 2004 for the Independent sector to work with adults with Learning Disabilities and in 2007 set up a specialist Medium Secure unit for men with Personality Disorders.
In 2009 Dr Thomas joined St Andrew’s Healthcare in Birmingham to set up a new specialist Low Secure service for men with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. He has published papers in the British Journal of Psychiatry, Drug and Alcohol Dependence and the British Journal of Learning Disabilities, and recently established the Forensic Clinical ASD Network (FCAN).