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Dr Robin Jacobson
Consultant Neuropsychiatrist
A Consultant in Neuropsychiatry, Adult General Psychiatry, Affective Disorders, with special interests in Bipolar Disorder and Neuropsychiatry. He provided a neuropsychiatric service to the Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Centre at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital from 1986-2002. He has a special interest in the fields of neuropsychiatry, affective including Bipolar Disorder, and has undertaken research in neuropsychiatry, including head injury, alcoholic brain damage, depression and Bipolar Disorder. He has a particular interest in psychiatric disorders following accidents, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, affective disorders, chronic pain, the neuropsychiatric sequelae of head injury, brain damage in children and adults, and the assessment of Capacity.
A Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a member of the Royal College of Physicians, and a member of the British Neuropsychiatry Association and the British Association of Psychopharmacology. His research degree (MD) was on the Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome. He has written many papers in neuropsychiatry and adult general psychiatry. In1984 he was awarded the Gaskell Gold medal and Prize by Royal College of Psychiatrists and a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship. From 1993 to 2016 he chaired Paper A (Basic Sciences) of the MRCPsych examination Panel and was a member of the Examinations Sub‑Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He previously chaired the Critical Review Paper Panel of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Dr Janet Grace
Consultant Neuropsychiatrist
A Consultant Neuropsychiatrist whose current clinical practice includes management of patients with brain injury and other neuropsychiatric diagnoses, including ADHD, Tourette’s neurological illness and functional illness and a general psychiatry clinic. Until August 2016, she was a consultant in the Regional Neurobehavioural and Neuropsychiatry Unit at Walkergate Park Hospital, which is an NHS service for patients with acquired brain injury. From 2005 until 2012 she was the Clinical Lead for the regional neurobehavioural unit, which is a behaviourally managed environment for people who have psychiatric and/or behavioural problems following acquired brain injury. From 2012 she was the Clinical Lead of the regional neuropsychiatry inpatient unit, an acute assessment and treatment unit for patients with a variety of neuropsychiatric diagnoses including post traumatic amnesia, alcohol related brain injury, encephalitis, Huntington’s disease, HIV/AIDS and neuro-oncological diagnoses. From 2013 to 2016, she was the outpatient consultant for the Regional Neuropsychiatry Service. She was the Link Clinician between Neuropsychiatry and Neuro-oncology. She returned to NHS practice from 2020 to 2023, working as a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist. She was an Executive on the Neuropsychiatry Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from June 2020 to 2023.