Oxford Private Psychiatrist

Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications


Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists 1991.
Distinction

I was awarded the Laughlin Prize for First Place in the examination for Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, (UK and Ireland) May 1992.

This is the examination used to enable doctors from the UK, Republic of Ireland, and various other countries to enter the Psychiatric profession. The examination is held annually and up to 500 doctors take part.

The examination has various components, including multiple-choice questions, an essay, and a clinical interview with a psychiatric patient.

Membership of the Faculty of Addictions
Membership of the British Medical Association 1994.
I am approved under Section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983.
My GMC Registration Number is 3706456.
I hold Professional Indemnity with the Medical Protection Society. My Registration Number is 150496.

I am listed on both the Law Society Directory of Expert Witnesses, http://www.theexpertwitnessdirectory.co.uk/ and on the Expert Witness database http://www.expertsearch.co.uk/ian.coffey.





Current position

I am a consultant psychiatrist currently working at the Manor Hospital in Oxford. I ran a substance misuse unit in St Andrews Hospital in Northampton from 2003 to the end of 2007.

I see nurses with mental health problems and addiction issues for the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

I have participated in supervision of Doctors with mental health problems and addiction issues whose cases have been up in front of the General Medical Council.

I worked for a year as an NHS general adult psychiatrist in South Oxfordshire in 2003 to 2004 and for six years before that as an NHS consultant psychiatrist in Scotland.

I have worked in the past in occupational psychiatry in the RAF, and in prison psychiatry in HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes for over a year up until the spring of 2004.


Previous NHS Consultant Position

November 1996 -2003 Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry with a special interest in Rehabilitation at St John’s and Bangour Hospital.

This busy NHS Job entailed caring for a catchment area of 30,000 population within 6 weekly sessions. The area was one considerable social deprivation, high unemployment, and overcrowding with low levels of home and car ownership.
In my 4 rehabilitation sessions I oversaw the following;
In-patient rehabilitation provided by a multi-disciplinary team in a 6 bedded unit.
A Day Centre which had 75 at tenders, and included a depot clinic with 110 patients.
A Day Hospital, with 70 clients.



Previous Employment

1986 to1990
I trained as a junior house officer, medical senior house officer, paediatric SHO and as a Casualty Officer in various Hospitals in Dublin and Munster.

1990 to1993
I worked as a SHO and registrar in Psychiatry in various hospitals in Dublin.

1993 to1996
Lecturer and Honorary Senior Registrar in Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh


Publications/Audits

(1) ‘‘Options for the Treatment of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia, published January 1994 by C.N.S drugs, Adis publications, New Zealand, (Sole author).

(2) I was involved in a multi-centre M.R.C study assessing the value of medication related information in compliance in schizophrenia. The study entailed the recruitment of patients from ten different centres throughout the Lothian’s, Lanarkshire, Forth valley and Strathcylde. I was a grant holder for this project.

The main published paper resulting from this study was;
’A randomised controlled trial of a brief interventional package for schizophrenic outpatients” Carroll, Johnstone, Clyde, Coffey, Fattah, and Owens. Acta Psychiatry Scand. 2001 May; 103 (5):362-9.

(3) ‘’Red cell membrane fatty acids, cytosolic phospholipase-A2 and Schizophrenia’’ Doris, Wahle, MacDonald, Morris, Coffey, Muir and Blackwood, Schizophrenia Research, 31, (1998) 185-196. I was an Mphil supervisor on this project for Dr Doris while working as a lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry in Edinburgh.

(4) ‘‘Diurnal Variation in Pyridostigmine induced GH response’’, J.H. Thakore, Ian Coffey, and Professor Ted Dinan, Journal of Basic & Clinical Physiology & Pharmacology, 5, No 2, 1994.

(5) I was co-author, with Professor Eve Johnstone, of a book chapter on Unusual Psychiatric Syndromes in the book ‘’Troublesome disguises’’ edited by Dr Dinesh Bhugra.

(6) I presented the poster “Patients who have excessively long gaps between lithium estimations; what is the effect of attempted notification of the responsible doctor?” at the summer meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in summer 2000.

Teaching experience

I have extensive experience of lecturing and tutoring medical students, occupational therapists, general practitioners e.t.c, and have participated in the preparation of candidates for the Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Medical students from Edinburgh and Dundee universities are regularly attached to our hospital and appear to highly value their attachments with us.

I lectured the pre-clinical medical year on ''Hysteria, Stress and Adjustment reactions. I have also contributed to the University of Edinburgh undergraduate workbook.

I participated in the Lister Postgraduate Institute Half-Day release Course for GP trainees co-ordinated by Dr Ian Pullen.

I was an honorary Clinical Tutor associated with the facility of medicine for the University of Edinburgh.

I am an examiner for the M.R.C.Psych examinations (Part One).