Dr Fiona Mason
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Chief Medical Officer

Dr Fiona Mason is a specialist in women's mental health, offending and service development. She has particular expertise in post traumatic responses and the links between trauma and offending. Dr Mason's research focuses on the effect of rape on women and legal issues surrounding the trials.

Dr Piyal Sen has experience of working with both men and women, in particular those with a personality disorder. With a special interest in sex offenders, Dr Sen previously ran one of the few medium secure hospital units in the country offering a specialised treatment programme for sex offenders, many of whom were stepping down from high security. Piyal also has a special interest in cultural psychiatry, in particular foreign national prisoners and asylum-seekers / refugees as well as an interest in teaching and organising academic seminars. Dr Sen was previously Associate Medical Director for CPD in St Andrew's Healthcare and is the joint academic secretary of the South-Eastern Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. 

Dr Anagnostakis is a dual qualified Forensic and General Psychiatrist and Master of Medical Science in Clinical Psychiatry. She has previous experience in a range of open and secure mental health units and prisons, including high secure women’s services, male medium and low secure and community forensic services. Katina is currently based in the medium secure Women’s Service at St Andrew’s Healthcare working with mentally disordered women offenders, most of whom characteristically suffer with complex co-morbidity of mental illness, personality disorder, trauma related and substance abuse disorders.

Dr Beber is a Consultant Psychiatrist in our Women’s Service. After completing her higher psychiatric training, Liz has concentrated on her interests in Forensic Learning Disability and currently works within St Andrew’s Healthcare with adult females with offending histories who present with Learning Disabilities, Autism and Aspergers Syndrome.

Dr Gralton is a Consultant Forensic and Lifespan Learning Disability Psychiatrist. Ernest has a special interest in adolescents with complex developmental disorders who present risk to themselves and others; conditions can include Autism, ADHD, Emerging Personality Disorder, Mental Illness and Developmental Trauma. Significant proportions of these young people have had histories of neglect and abuse and have been in care. Dr Gralton is the editor of a recent text, Forensic Issues in Adolescents with Development Disabilities published by Jessica Kinsley in 2011.

Dr Gibbon is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist working in both the Deaf and Women’s Services at St Andrew's Healthcare, Northampton. Prior to his present appointment Simon was Clinical Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Nottingham. In addition to his expertise in assessing deaf patients, Simon also has a particular interest in risk assessment, personality disorder and sexual offending.

Dr Picchioni has dual accreditation in General Adult and Forensic Psychiatry. He has over a decade of experience conducting research into psychotic illnesses, in particular schizophrenia. Marco undertakes primarily criminal medico-legal work specialising in psychosis and offending. He is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and is Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist within the Men’s Service at St Andrew's Healthcare, Northampton.

Dr Radley is a Consultant Psychiatrist in our Men’s Service, and is currently based in our low secure unit for Men with Asperger’s Syndrome. She has considerable experience of working with adults with Learning Disabilities, ADHD and Autistic Spectrum Disorders including Asperger’s Syndrome, and has a particular interest in the relationship between ASD and offending. Jane also has experience in civil cases regarding adults with Learning Disability or Autistic Spectrum Disorders who have been abused or where there are questions about capacity.

Dr Roychowdhury is a Consultant in General Psychiatry, sub-specialty Liaison Psychiatry, and Forensic Psychiatry. He is currently the Lead Forensic Psychiatrist for WWH medium secure service at St Andrew's Healthcare,  Northampton and Strategic Lead for Services for Young Adults.

His areas of expertise and interest are:

• Forensic Psychiatric issues in males especially dual diagnosis, treatment resistant schizophrenia and personality disorder.

• The clinical needs of young adults in transition from adolescent care, including the assessment and treatment of adult ADHD.

• Investigation and analysis of Serious Untoward Incidents in mental health using Root Cause Analysis, Failure Modes Effects Analysis and other tools.

• Healthcare Governance especially Patient Safety issues within organizations.

• Liaison Psychiatry issues especially psychological effects of physical illness or trauma, chronic pain and disability issues

• The training, implementation and research of Clinical Risk assessments of violence, sexual offending and harm to self, using structured tools such as the HCR 20, RSVP and START.

Professor Graeme Yorston is a Consultant Forensic and Old Age Psychiatrist with experience in assessing and managing mentally disordered offenders of all ages, but with particular expertise in offending in old age and neuro-psychiatric disorders including epilepsy. Professor Yorston regularly acts as an expert witness in criminal and civil cases.

With dual qualifications in Child Psychiatry and Learning Disabilities, Dr Iyer is a Consultant Psychiatrist and currently works with young persons with neurodevelopmental disorders. Her areas of interest include Autistic spectrum disorder, epilepsy and neuropsychatric manifestations of organic brain disorders.

Dr Rajesh Moholkar is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Clinical Lead at St Andrew’s Birmingham. He works on an acute Medium Secure ward. Rajesh has seven years extensive experience in producing Psychiatric reports for the courts and has produced a number of these in criminal cases. In addition to being a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrist and being on the Specialist Register of the GMC, he has a Master’s degree in Clinical Criminology, MD in Psychiatry and a Diploma in Psychological Medicine. His areas of Medico-legal Expertise include: Fitness to Plead and Stand Trial, Psychiatric assessment, Risk assessment, Diminished Responsibility, Sex offenders, Parole Board assessments, Post Traumatic Stress disorder, and Mental Health Review Tribunals.

Dr Sarkar completed his specialist training in Forensic Psychiatry and has a particular interest in Women’s Mental Health. He practises as a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist currently based within the Women’s Service at St Andrew’s Healthcare. Samudra has Consultant responsibilities for both medium and low secure units. He is working with mentally disordered women offenders, most of whom suffer with a complex co morbidity. He also has previous experience of working with women offenders with Learning Disabilities.

Dr Shubinder Shergill

Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist

Dr Shergill works within Men’s Service at William Wake House as a Consultant Psychiatrist and has a particular interest in Adults with Learning Disabilities, Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, sex offenders, risk assessment (trainer in use of HCR-20, RSVP and START tools), Personality Disorder, impact of trauma, Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Psychological Therapies. Shubinder has been an independent psychiatric member of Parole Board of England and Wales since 2007.

Dr Martine Stoffels

Consultant Psychiatrist
Dr Martine Stoffels is a General Adult and Old Age Psychiatrist with additional training in Rehabilitation Psychiatry and Cognitive Analytical Therapy. She currently integrates these skills in her work. Martine sees people of working age as well as older adults and tried to provide a holistic approach to mental health problems, which combines the use of medication with a cognitive analytical approach.

Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist
Dr Gunasekaran is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist with special interest in developmental disabilities including autism and learning disabilities. He works as a Responsible Clinician for a number of inpatients with Aspergers syndrome or learning disabilities within a medium secure setting. He has worked in a variety of secure settings in NHS and prisons.  His qualifications include a Masters Degree in Mental Health Law.His clinical work includes the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of mentally disordered offenders. His areas  of medico-legal expertise include assessment of fitness to plead, risk assessments, diminished responsibility, capacity assessments and management of patients in secure care.

Dr Nicholas Britchford

Consultant Learning Disability Psychiatrist
Dr Britchford is a Consultant Learning Disability Psychiatrist. He works with Adults who have Autistic Spectrum Disorders, including Asperger’s Syndrome and Learning Disability. Nick has a particular interest in Adults with Autism or Learning Disability who sexually offend. He has experience undertaking medico legal work around mainly criminal issues.

Dr Enys Delmage

Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist
Dr. Delmage has dual-trained in both child and adolescent and forensic psychiatry. He works in a secure child and adolescent mental health unit which provides services for mentally disordered young offenders ranging from 13 to 23 years. He also provides inreach for Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre and has an interest in the interface between health and the law. 

Enys obtained a master’s degree in mental health law (awarded with commendation) and is currently working on a law PhD related to the minimum age of criminal responsibility. He has also authored book chapters related to adolescent forensic mental health and services, and has been providing medico-legal reports for the courts for the past 7 years, of both civil and criminal nature.

Dr Kavita Praveen MRCPsych with CCT in CAMHS

Consultant Psychiatrist
Dr Praveen joined the St Andrew’s team in 2009 and is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist leading on the implementation of systems and processes for the management of Emerging Personality Disorders and Family therapy within the service. She is also a Responsible Clinician for adolescent female patients on the treatment ward at St Andrew’s. Kavita undertakes assessment of a range of developmental disorders, risk to self and others in a secure service and management with the combination of use psychopharmacology and a range of psychological models within a multi-disciplinary team. She also networks and liaises with commissioners / clinicians to assist admission and smooth transition of patients.

In association with her interest in the research of trauma disorders, she is keen on training of clinical staff to develop skills and knowledge in working with young people with traumatic experiences. Dr Praveen is also a speaker in the Masters Child Abuse Course at Northampton University and has carried out workshops at external events.

With a wealth of expertise in the field within the NHS, special interest in Adolescent Forensic, Kavita is a member of the General Medical Council (GMC), the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Quality Network for In-patient CAMHS (QNIC) and a Lead Reviewer for QNIC.

Dr Muthusamy Natarajan

Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist
Dr Muthusamy Natarajan is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist for the Older Men’s Medium Secure Service at St Andrew’s Healthcare. Muthusamy has forensic mental health clinical experience working in secure hospital settings, the community, and prisons. His focus of interest is in older adult mental health and risk assessment.

Dr Jane McCarthy

Clinical Director and Consultant Psychiatrist, St Andrew's Nottinghamshire
Dr Jane McCarthy is the Clinical Director and Consultant Psychiatrist at Nottinghamshire, leading the development of the secure services for adults with Autism and Learning Disabilities. She has an interest in adults with Learning Disabilities who have experienced traumatic events. Jane is also the visiting Senior Lecturer at the Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science Department, Institute of Psychiatry.

Dr Joanne Vernon

Consultant Psychiatrist
Dr Vernon is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. She has over 10 years experience in working with Children and Adolescents with mental health difficulties and has worked in a variety of community and inpatient settings. Joanne has specialist experience in the assessment and treatment of child addiction. She previously worked to develop transitional community mental health services for older adolescents.

Dr Vernon is currently employed as a Consultant Psychiatrist at St Andrew' Healthcare, Northampton where she works with adolescents who present with complex cognitive, emotional and behavioural difficulties. She has a particular interest in working with young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders.

Dr Clare Oakley

Clinical Research Worker
Dr Clare Oakley is currently conducting research into the association between Schizophrenia and Violence. Clare has experience of working with both men and women in medium secure units. She undertakes primarily criminal medico-legal work, specialising in psychosis and offending.

Dr Boris Iankov

Consultant Psychiatrist
Dr Iankov completed his specialist training in General Adult Psychiatry and has a particular interest in Women’s Mental Health. He works as a Consultant Psychiatrist on a medium secure unit within St Andrews Women’s division. Boris' areas of expertise are general adult psychiatry, treatment resistant mental illness and challenging behaviour, personality disorders, perinatal psychiatry and forensic psychiatry.He has special interest in Mental Capacity and Mental Health Law in the EU. His qualifications include a Masters Degree in Health Management.

Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry

Dr Faruqui is a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist working at the National Brain Injury Centre of the Neuropsychiatry Service, St Andrew’s Healthcare, Northampton. He is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy and has a particular interest in professional education and training development. Rafey is currently serving as Finance Officer, Section of Neuropsychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists and leads on Complex Neurodisability Working Group.
He was member of the working group that advised the WHO on revision of International Classification of Diseases and currently serves on Royal College’s Revalidation and CPD Committee, and Central Policy Committee.

Dr Faruqui has a research interest in neuropsychiatry, stress related disorders, and professional education. He has provided consultancy in international disaster management projects and suicide prevention education programmes. His current projects include coordinating a Royal College Interfaculty Working party on Alcohol and Brain Damage. He is also responsible for Section of Neuropsychiatry links with Forensic Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Ms Marilyn Sher

Principal Chartered Forensic Psychologist
As a Principal Chartered Forensic Psychologist her areas of expertise lie in particular with offenders who have developmental disabilities, both adolescent and adult. Marilyn is also able to undertake work with a range of offenders with mental health and personality difficulties.

Dr Catherine Hart

Chartered Clinical Psychologist
Dr Hart is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with previous experience in a range of community and inpatient settings. She currently works in a medium secure service at St Andrew’s Healthcare, Northampton, working with male offenders with Learning Disability, most of whom have a co-morbid condition such as PTSD, Mental Illness, and Personality Disorder. As a Chartered Clinical Psychologist she is practised in providing comprehensive psychosocial formulations; risk assessments and treatment options for forensic and non-forensic populations. Her research has previously focused on aspects of health psychology and she has a special interest in health psychology; health anxiety and OCD.

Senior Clinical Psychologist
Dr Staniforth works in the Adolescent Service at St Andrew's Healthcare, Northampton. She works with both males and females who have developmental disabilities and forensic histories / mental health difficulties. Many of these young people have suffered significant trauma histories and display a range of attachment difficulties and challenging behaviours. Dr Staniforth develops comprehensive psychological formulations, provides full assessment (psychosocial, neuropsychogical and risk assessment) and is also able to offer consultation and training. Most of her consultancy work is medico-legal. Charlotte is a member of the HPC and BPS and is a research associate in the Department of Forensic mental health science at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. She teaches on masters level courses in secure care at the IoP and child abuse at Northampton University.

Dr Dawn Bailham

Principal Clinical Psychologist
Dr Dawn Bailham is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with a Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology. She has expertise in conducting child and family court assessments, assessments of adolescent and younger adult offenders, as well as adults with a developmental disorder. Dawn particular interest is in the development of personality disorders and implications for parenting and offending.Dr Bailham is also a trained Dialectical Behaviour Therapist and is undergoing psychotherapy training in Cognitive Analytical Therapy.

Tammy Wachter

Principal Clinical Psychologist

Tammy is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist whose areas of expertise lie in particular with adult offenders with Mental Health difficulties and Personality Disorders. She is able to undertake work regarding adults who have a range of offence histories. 

Tammy is currently based in the medium secure William Wake House at St Andrew’s Healthcare working with mentally disordered men offenders, with complex co morbidity of Mental Illness, Personality Disorder and trauma related difficulties. In addition to assessments and formulations she is trained to deliver psychological therapy from both Cognitive Behavioural and Cognitive Analytical Therapy perspective.

Dr Jenkins’ expertise lies within the neuropsychological aspects of acquired brain injury and its effects upon individuals and their families. As a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist within the National Brain Injury Centre, St Andrew’s Healthcare, Northampton he works with both men and women living in long term services as a result of behavioural and cognitive change subsequent to their acquired brain injury. 

Dr Jenkins has prepared reports for the Court for over 15 years alongside his full time clinical practice and is a Full Practitioner Member of the British Psychological Society Division of Neuropsychology. In addition, Keith is a Board Member of Headway East Northants, a member of the Northamptonshire Acquired Brain Injury Forum and Treasurer for the United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum. He has researched malingered cognitive impairment, the effect of brain injury upon families, and social integration for people after brain injury.

As a Chartered Consultant Clinical Psychologist she is practised in comprehensive psychosocial treatment formulations pertaining to offending in the context of compounding mental health needs such as Learning Disability, Acquired Brain Injury, Dementia, and substance misuse, disorders on the Autistic Spectrum and Personality Disorder, which she is able to assess using a range of psychological assessment tools including neuropsychological tests.