Printed from: https://www.cmf.org.uk/nurses/events/psychiatry-day-conference/
When: 8th June 2024
Where: CMF Office Johnson House 6 Marshalsea Road, London SE1 1HL
Time: 09:20 - 16:00
Hosted by: CMF
Psychiatry Day Conference
Please join us for a day of interactive, face to-face engagement, with opportunities for active reflection, networking, fellowship, and prayerful discussion. We will meaningfully and purposefully explore how we can holistically serve our patients towards healing. There will be supportive discussion and mutual sharing of our professional experiences, as together we strive to make a difference to the lives of patients suffering from and burdened by mental illness. We hope that meeting together will provide connections that nurture, strengthen, and equip you to both sustain your practice and to know God's blessing in it.
Dr Gwen Adshead
Dr Gwen Adshead is a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist. She trained at St George's Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry. She is a qualified group analyst and also trained in mindfulness practices and mentalisation based therapy. Gwen has worked as a therapist with violence perpetrators for over 30 years, and she will talk about the faith in forensic practice. Gwen has published widely and often appears on public radio; her most recent book, written with her friend Eileen Horne, is called 'the Devil You know' and was published by Faber in 2021.
Dr Derrett Watts
Following working as a General Practitioner in the early 1990s, I undertook Psychiatry training in the West Midlands. I became a General Adult Consultant in 2001 and from 2003 for 20 years worked as Consultant Psychiatrist for Substance Misuse in North Staffordshire, with services including an Inpatient Addiction Unit, and Community and Prison Substance Misuse Services. From October 2023 I have been working as Consultant in Addiction Psychiatrist with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust, based in the Community Drug and Alcohol Service in Wolverhampton. I was Training Programme Director for General Adult Psychiatry Higher Training for the West Midlands from 2010 to 2021, and am now Training Programme Director for Addiction for the West Midlands Post-Graduate School of Psychiatry. I am part of the leadership team in an Evangelical Church in Stoke and have been involved with CMF in various ways over the last 20 years.
Dr Stefan Gleeson
Stefan Gleeson BM BA MAEd MSc MRCPsych is a consultant psychiatrist in Winchester CMHT and has been a DME for his Trust for 7 years. His interests are in medical education (senior clinical lecturer, Southampton Uni; Asst. Prof of psychiatry, SGU Grenada), Autism (assessments in local postgraduate deanery, formerly at ARC, Cambridge University), schizophrenia, spirituality/mental health; arts in mental health. He has previously taught languages in Berlin, Madrid, worked as street kids educator in Guatemala and as health economist in Paris. He runs a bible study group for men, is involved in an EU prayer group in relation to Ukraine and Israel/Gaza conflicts and is surviving trying to teach his youngest son to drive!
Dr Mark Pickering
Mark Pickering is CMF Chief Executive and a secure environment GP. He oversees CMF's public policy ministry on issues at the beginning and end of life, and gender & sexuality, often in collaboration with other Christian organisations.
Prof Steve Sturman
Steve works as a neurologist in Birmingham and also has headed up CMF's Pastoral Care and Wellbeing service for the past 5 years. In this time he has been learning what issues are important to Christian clinicians and how we can encourage each other to flourish in healthcare.
Dr Jonathan Buckley
Dr Jonathan Buckley is a newly qualified general adult consultant psychiatrist, board game enthusiast and active member of his local church. He has the privilege of sitting on the executive committee for the RCPSYCH Spirituality in Psychiatry Special Interest Group. He has an active interest in the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion framework, including the protected characteristic of 'religion and belief' in secular settings.
