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DR YASIR HAMEED

(MB ChB, FRCPSYCH, PG DIP CLIN EDU)

 

Consultant Psychiatrist  

 

Honorary Associate Professor (Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)

 

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I undertake independent assessments in a variety of areas and write reports for the courts relating to cases involving capacity (especially in older adults and those with cognitive disorders) and reports for asylum and immigration matters.

SOCIAL MEDIA

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I use social media to raise awareness about mental health issues for Arabic-speaking audiences. I started my YouTube channel (Yasir Hameed Psychiatry) in 2016 and now have over 20,000 subscribers. I stream live videos and publish content to answer questions from the views on various issues related to mental health. I also create and publish similar content on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok.

 

YouTube channel link:

https://www.youtube.com/@YasirHameedPsychiatry/about

QUALIFICATIONS, TRAINING & RESEARCH

2024: Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK

2017: Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in General and Old Age Psychiatry
2017: Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Education (PgCert Dip Clin Edu)
2016: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
2013: Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych)
2002: MBChB, College of Medicine, Baghdad University. Iraq

  • ​I designed and participated in a masterclass on the mental health of asylum seekers and refugees, which we presented at this year’s International Congress of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, held in Edinburgh, 17-20 June. The masterclass included the following speakers: Dr Piyal Sen (Medical Director and Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Elysium Healthcare and Chair of the Special Committee on Human Rights, The Royal College of Psychiatrists), Dr Veronika Dobler (Consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust)  and others.

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  • Mini-MBA in management and leadership for psychiatrists. Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia: February to May 2024. This training course offered a leadership development programme with holistic training on practical, organisational, and evidence-based solutions to management practice. It was delivered over eight full days of training from February to May 2024 and included a project to improve service delivery and quality in our workplace.

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  • Navigating Perinatal Psychiatry and Fabricated Illness in Expert Testimony. Dr Charles Musters. Consultant Adult and Perinatal Psychiatrist. Expert in Mind online training. Topics included Parents’ Mental Health in Family Law Proceedings, Psychiatric Injuries Following Obstetric Negligence, Psychiatric Care Breaches of Duty and Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII). 19 April 2024.

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  • Report Writing Tips. Online training provided by Carter Brown Expert Witness service. 20 March 2024.

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  • Is it ADHD? Online training by Dr Julia Ronder, Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist. Topics discussed included ADHD and the Law, Understanding how ADHD impacts various legal aspects and rights,  Case studies involving the misuse of diagnosis and medication and ADHD Assessments, and Managing ADHD: Pitfalls and Benefits of Medication. 8 March 2024.

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  • Supporting Refugees and Asylum Seekers Conference: 6 February 2024. I attended and participated as a speaker in this conference organised by Government Events (www.governmentevents.co.uk) and included speakers from various institutions and organisations supporting forced migrants in the UK.

More information on this event can be found at:  https://www.governmentevents.co.uk/event/the-supporting-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-conference/#overview

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  • Medico‐Legal Masterclass: Working as a medico‐legal expert, by Dr Hugh Series, Consultant old age psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS and Law Faculty, University of Oxford. 9 March 2023.

 

  • Neuropsychiatry in a day training: This one-day training course covered the latest advances in the management of neuropsychiatric disorders, including head injury, neuroinflammatory conditions, memory disorders, functional disorders and more. Organised by Maudsley Learning and presented by Dr Sotiris Posporelis, Consultant Liaison Neuropsychiatrist at King’s College Hospital London and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. 24 November 2022.

 

  • Medical Justice Basic Training Day for Clinicians: This course is aimed at clinicians interested in volunteering for Medical Justice as medico-legal report writers to conduct mental health assessments for detained persons and document clinical evidence of torture and other health issues. 12 November 2022.

 

  • National Training Day on the mental health of Asylum Seekers and Refugees organised by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. 7 October 2022.

 

  • Masterclass: Contemporary Medico-Legal Issues in Modern Healthcare by Prof Rob Heywood. 6 hours of training organised by dedici on 28 March 2022.

 

  • Bond Solon courses: 

 

  • Cross-Examination Day on 16/09/2020

  • Courtroom Skills Training on 08/09/2020

  • Excellence in Report Writing on 17/09/2018

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Recorded on the specialist register of the General Medical Council membership number: 6139989.

  • Fellow of Royal College of Psychiatrists: membership number: 869948.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Hameed Y, Fox H, Clegg I, Charamiroupa E, Rayala M. Healing and Hope for Forced Migrants in Norwich: The SHIFA Clinic for Asylum Seekers and Refugees. BJPsych Open. 2024;10(S1):S142-S142. doi:10.1192/bjo.2024.376

  • Hameed, Y., Fox, H., Clegg, I., Roupa, E., Haq, M., Rayala, M., & Ahmed, A. (2023). Meeting the Needs of Asylum Seekers & Refugees: The Norfolk Experience. BJPsych Open, 9(S1), S93-S93.

  • Ban K-Y, Osborn DPJ, Hameed Y, Pandey S, Perez J, Jones PB, et al. (2020) Personality disorder in an Early Intervention Psychosis cohort: Findings from the Social Epidemiology of Psychoses in East Anglia (SEPEA) study. Plos ONE 15(6): e0234047.

  • Hameed, Y; Al Taiar, H; O'Leary. D; Kaynge, L. Can Online Distance Learning improve access to learning in conflict zones? The Oxford Psychiatry in Iraq (OxPIQ) Experience. British Journal of Medical Practitioners 2018;11(2):a1114.

  • I co-authored a chapter on the mental health of older forced migrants in the second edition of the Seminars in Old Age Psychiatry, edited by Rob Butler & Cornelius Katona and published by Cambridge University Press. This edition contained concise and up-to-date information on the mental health of older people from forced migration backgrounds.

  •  https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/seminars-in-old-age-psychiatry/334EC4EC13C612187D105FBF7AE8B8E9#fndtn-information

  •  I co-authored an online module on managing Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adults (Autism spectrum disorders in adults: a brief introduction). The Royal College of Psychiatrists published the module through their CPD website. The second author was Dr Jaap Hamelijnck (Consultant Psychiatrist, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust).

  •  https://elearninghub.rcpsych.ac.uk/product?catalog=032_CORE_LM_ASD_Adult_2021

  •  Solmi, F., Mohammadi, A., Perez, J. A., Hameed, Y., Jones, P. B., & Kirkbride, J. B. (2018.). Predictors of disengagement from Early Intervention in Psychosis services. British Journal of Psychiatry, 213(2), 477–483.

  •  Hameed, Y; Wesby, R; Wagle, R; Agius, S; Hillam, J; Tarbuck, A (2017) Improving Medical Student Placements in Psychiatry: Review of literature and a practical example. British Journal of Medical Practitioners 10(1):a1008.

  •  Richardson, L; Hameed, Y; Perez, J; Jones, P; Kirkbride, JB (2018) Association of Environment With the Risk of Developing Psychotic Disorders in Rural Populations: Findings from the Social Epidemiology of Psychoses in East Anglia Study. JAMA Psychiatry (1):75.

  •  Kirkbride, JB; Hameed, Y; Ioannidis, K; Ankireddypalli, G; Crane, CM; Nasir, M; Kabacs, N; Metastasio, A; Jenkins, O; Espandian, A; Spryidi, S; Ralevic, D; Siddabattuni, S; Walden, B; Adeoye, A; Perez, J; Jones, P B (2017) Ethnic Minority Status, Age-at-Immigration and Psychosis Risk in Rural Environments: Evidence From the SEPEA Study. Schizophrenia Bulletin (6), 1251.

  •  Hameed, Y; DeWaal, H; Bosier, E; Miller, J; Still, J; Collins, D; Bennet, T; Haroulis, C; Hamelijnck, J; Gill, N (2016) Using mentoring to improve the foundation placement in psychiatry: Review of literature and a practical example. British Journal of Medical Practitioners 9(4):a932

  •  Wagle, A; Hameed, Y; Bosier, E (2016) The Necessary Evil: Balancing the Risks and Benefits of Fluvoxamine in a Patient with Treatment Refractory Depression on Warfarin. A Case Report. British Journal of Medical Professionals 9(4):a934

  •  Kirkbride, JB; Hameed, Y; Wright, L; Russell, K; Knight, C; Perez, J; Jones, PB (2017). Waiting time variation in Early Intervention Psychosis services: longitudinal evidence from the SEPEA naturalistic cohort study. Social Psychiatry And Psychiatric Epidemiology 52(5), 563–574

  •  Kirkbride, JB; Hameed, Y; Ankireddypalli, G; Ioannidis, K; Crane, CM; Nasir, M; Kabacs, N; Metastasio, A; Jenkins, O; Espandian, A; Spryidi, S; Ralevic, D; Siddabattuni, S; Walden, B; Adeoye, A; Perez, J; Jones, P B (2016) The epidemiology of first-episode psychosis in early intervention in psychosis services: Findings from the social epidemiology of psychoses in East Anglia [SEPEA] study. The American Journal of Psychiatry 174(2), 143–153.

  •  I co-authored a chapter in Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (8th edition, 2016). I reviewed and updated the sections on alcohol misuse and somatoform disorders in the chapter on psychiatric disorders in the elderly.

  •  Kirkbride, JB; Hindocha, C; Hameed, Y; Perez, J; Jones, PB (2016) Do Do Symptom Dimensions Vary between Ethnic Groups at First Presentation to Early Intervention in Psychosis Services? Evidence from the SEPEA Study. Early Intervention In Psychiatry 10, 16.

  •  I co-authored an online module on the history of psychiatry for the Royal College of Psychiatrists website (Trainees Online). The second author of this module was Dr Andrew Tarbuck, Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist in Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. The module was reviewed by Dr Alison Haggett and Dr Claire Hilton.

  •  https://elearninghub.rcpsych.ac.uk/product?catalog=41_TRON_Brf_int_hist_psych

  •  Smith, TO; Hameed, Y; Cross, JL; Henderson, C; Sahota, O; Fox, C (2015) Enhanced rehabilitation and care models for adults with dementia following hip fracture surgery. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Issue 6. Art. No.: CD010569.

  •  Hameed, Y; Hamelijnck, J (2014)  Lamotrigine-induced hallucination in a patient with bipolar disorder and no history of epilepsy or psychosis: A case report and literature review. British Journal Of Medical Practitioners. 7(2):a714.

  •  Kidd, AC; Musonda, P; Soiza, RL; Butchart, C; Lunt, CJ; Pa, Y; Hameed, Y; Fox, C; Potter, JF; Myint, PK (2014). The relationship between total anticholinergic burden (ACB) and early inpatient hospital mortality and length of stay in the oldest old aged 90 years and over admitted with an acute illness. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 59:155-161.

  •  Smith, TO; Hameed, Y; Cross, JL; Henderson, C; Sahota, O; Fox, C (2013) Effectiveness of post-operative management strategies for adults with dementia following hip fracture surgery. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Issue 6. Art. No.: CD010569.

  •  Smith, TO; Hameed, Y; Cross, J; Sahota, O; Fox, C (2013). Assessment of people following hip fracture with cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Archive of Gerontology and Geriatrics 57(2):117-126.

  •  Hameed, Y; Everard, M; Beezhold, J (2011). Anaemia in elderly inpatients in a psychiatric hospital is a serious problem or an innocent finding. European Psychiatry. 26 (1). 862.

  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924933811725676

  •  OTHER NON-RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNALS

  •  Hameed Y (2007). The dilemma of clinical attachment. British Medical Journal (BMJ) 2007; 334.

  •  Hameed Y (2009). Universal truths. Canadian Medical Association Journal CMAJ. 180:5.

  •  Hameed Y (2009). A doctor and a grenade. Canadian Medical Association Journal CMAJ. 181:3-4. 

  • POSTER PRESENTATIONS

  •  Mental health of forced migrants: development of the first consultant-led clinic for forced migrants in Norwich. Hameed Y. Presented at the Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress, held in London in July 2019.

  •  The Oxford-Iraq Connection: Virtual Case-Based Discussions for Psychiatric Trainees Using Online Learning (OxPIQ Partnership). Hameed, Y; Al Taiar, H; O’Leary, D; Kynge, L (2017). Presented at the Ninth Oxford Colloquium on Medical Education (Education: Benefit or Burden?). Organised by the Oxford University Medical Education Fellows on 26 September 2017 in Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

  •  Fluvoxamine in treatment-refractory depression in an older patient on warfarin: the necessary evil? Hameed, Y; Wagle, A; Bosier, E.

  • Presented at the 19th national conference on dementia (Dementias 2017): Recent developments in research, clinical care and service & policy issues in the dementias.

  • Programme Advisors: Professor Tom Arie and Professor Alistair Burns. Held at the Royal College of General Practitioners, London, on 9th & 10th February 2017.

  •  Building The Foundations for Better Placement in Psychiatry: The Norfolk Experience. Bennet T, Brown S, Hameed Y. I co-authored a poster on the mentoring scheme for foundation doctors in psychiatry.

  • The poster was presented at the Eastern Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Spring conference at Wellcome Genome Centre, Cambridge, on 12 May 2016.

  •  TRAINING EXPERIENCE

  •  I regularly participated in local Postgraduate Medical education talks (weekly online events in Norfolk) and gave talks on various clinical topics, such as the mental health of asylum seekers and refugees and cultural aspects of psychiatric practice.

  •  I presented a talk on the mental health of asylum seekers and refugees for the University of East Anglia’s Refugee Week in March 2022.

  •  I gave a one-hour online talk on cultural aspects of psychiatric practice to Devon Partnership psychiatrists in May 2021.

  •  I also presented two online training sessions (each session was for 90 minutes) for Doctors of the World UK, one on risk assessment in October 2021 and one on psychosis in November 2022.

  •  I participated as a speaker for three consecutive years in the 20th, 19th, and 18th National Conferences on Dementia (Dementias 2018, Dementias 2017 and Dementias 2016) organised by MA Healthcare and chaired by Prof Alistair Burns and Prof Tom Arie. My talks were (three cases from Old Age Psychiatry in Norfolk, 2018), (From Baghdad to Norfolk: A journey in the life of a refugee doctor, 2017) and co-presented three cases with acute cognitive impairment without delirium with Dr Andrew Tarbuck (Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist) in 2016.

  •  I presented a talk on the role of medication in dementia in a public event organised by the University of East Anglia and Alzheimer’s Research UK on 14 June 2017.

  •  Other speakers in this event included Professor John O’Brien from Cambridge and Mr Robin Brisbourne (Communications Manager – Science Media and Engagement- Alzheimer's Research UK).

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