ADULT ADHD NORTH WEST - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Consultant Psychiatrist / Warrington
Dr Joe Johnson leads the Adult ADHD Service of the North West Boroughs NHS Trust. Dr Johnson has over 15 years of consultant experience of working in acute and community psychiatry, and also in prison settings; assessing and managing all common mental health conditions.
Having completed his higher training in Psychiatry from the University of Liverpool, he took up a Consultant post at the North West Boroughs NHS Trust in February 2005. He set up the Adult ADHD service at the Trust in 2009, and has since been heading this service, which is one of the biggest ADHD service providers in the Northwest. He is the Northwest lead for the national organisation UKAAN (UK Adult ADHD Network). He has been involved in a multi centre clinical trial in adult ADHD, fully funded by the University of Manchester. He has delivered ADHD training programmes to a variety of professionals including psychiatrists, GPs, nurses, occupational therapists, probation officers and other practitioners in mental health across the UK, and has also been invited to speak at national and international conferences. Dr Johnson is a trustee of the ADHD Foundation, a charitable organisation which works with ADHD sufferers.