DoubleTree by Hilton, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 5BQ
15th October 2026
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Delegate rate £150 + VAT. Group bookings from the same organisation 20% discount.
Speakers
Dr Osman Malik
Osman completed his psychiatry training at the Charing Cross/ Imperial college psychiatric training scheme and completed child psychiatry training at the Great Ormond Street higher training scheme for child psychiatry in London, UK.
Since 2015, Osman has been a Consultant Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatrist working in the Tics/ Tourette service (TANDEM) at the department of children’s neurosciences at Evelina Children’s Hospital/ St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK. He also works in a tertiary Neurodevelopmental service (Newcomen clinic) at the Evelina London, where he conducts complex tertiary assessments with young people who present with a diverse range of neurodivergent conditions; he also provides some input to children’s psychological medicine, and to the sleep medicine service. Alongside a few other consultants he runs a tertiary psychopharmacology clinic for children with neurodevelopmental conditions often with complex mental health and physical health co-morbidities.
Osman is the site PI for NIHR (national institute of health research) funded UK wide SATURN trial: Stimulant Medication for ADHD and Tics – Understanding Response versus Non-stimulants (SATURN): a randomised trial of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of methylphenidate versus guanfacine for ADHD in children and young people with a co-existing tic disorder.
Osman is also involved in research related to genetics of tic disorder and stereotypies. In the past he has participated in research related to the mental health and psychological needs of adopted children. He teaches on the topic of Tics / Tourette syndrome and medication use in autism on a regular basis to trainee child psychiatrists and to MSc students. He has various relevant publication and has co-authored several textbook chapters (details here)
Georgina Carr
Georgina Carr is the Chief Executive of The Neurological Alliance, where she leads the organisation’s strategic direction and works with members, partners and people with lived experience to influence national policy and improve outcomes for the 1 in 6 people in England living with a neurological condition.
She has worked in neurological policy and advocacy for more than a decade, previously serving as Head of Campaigns and External Affairs at the MS Society. She currently sits on a wide range of governmental advisory groups, including the NHS England Adult Neurology Clinical Reference Group, the National Neuroscience Transformation Programme Board and the UK Neuro Forum.
Georgina’s commitment to this work is both professional and personal, shaped by family experiences of MS and brain injury. Alongside her role at the Alliance, she is a trustee of Canine Partners.
Dr David Craufurd
Dr Craufurd retired in March 2026 but was previously an honorary Senior Lecturer in Medical Genetics at the University of Manchester, and Consultant in Neuropsychiatric Genetics at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. His research interests are concerned mainly with the neuropsychiatric aspects of Huntington’s disease (HD), and with the psychological and social impact of predictive genetic testing for late-onset genetic disorders. He set up the UK’s first multidisciplinary management clinic for HD, currently one of the larger sites in the European HD Network (EHDN), and has been actively involved in a number of European and world-wide research projects and clinical trials. He is a former member of the Executive Committee of the EHDN and was lead facilitator of the EHDN Behavioural Phenotype Working Group; he is also a former Secretary-General of the World Federation of Neurology Research Group on HD.
Killian Welch
Killian Welch is a neuropsychiatrist working in Edinburgh. His time is divided between inpatient neurobehavioural rehabilitation, running neuropsychiatry outpatient clinics and providing neuropsychiatry liaison input to other specialties. He is clinical lead for the Robert Fergusson Unit, an NHS neurobehavioural rehabilitation unit in Edinburgh.
Jonathan Rogers
Jonathan Rogers is a Clinical Lecturer in the Division of Psychiatry at University College London and an Honorary Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. His research interests include catatonia, neuroimmunology, psychopharmacology and movement disorders more broadly.
Jeremy Isaacs
Dr Jeremy Isaacs is a consultant neurologist at St George’s Hospital and National Clinical Director for Dementia and Older People’s Mental Health at NHS England. He developed the first national memory service audit in England and was a member of the NICE dementia guideline committee. He is Honorary Reader in Neurology at City St George’s, University of London where he established the MSc in Clinical Neuroscience Practice and the Structural Inequalities in the Clinical Neurosciences conference. He has research interests in dementia and functional cognitive disorder.
Hugh Selsick
Hugh Selsick studied Physiology and Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, before specialising in Adult and Addictions Psychiatry at the Maudsley and the North London training schemes. He established the Insomnia and Behavioural Sleep Medicine Clinic at the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine/University College London Hospitals, the first of its kind in the UK, and is the lead clinician there. He also worked as a consultant in the Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. He founded the Sleep Special Interest Group in the Royal College of Psychiatrists and is past president of the Sleep Medicine Section at the Royal Society of Medicine. He is co-author of Oxford Case Histories in Sleep Medicine (2015) and editor of Sleep Disorders in Psychiatric Patients: A Practical Guide (2018). He has also contributed to numerous textbooks on sleep and psychiatry.
