Newcastle University

Introduction

My areas of clinical academic interest area are bipolar disorder impacting on children and adolescents and complex neurodevelopmental disorders.

Qualifications

MBBS MD MRCPsych

Memberships

Member of Royal College of Psychiatrists, United Kingdom
Associate Member of the Child Psychiatry Research Society, United Kingdom
Member of Clinical Research Group of CAPSS (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Surveillance System) of UK
Member of the Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, United Kingdom
Member of the British Association for Psychopharmacology

Current Work

I am doing a PhD on 'Neuropsychological function and Facial affect Recognition in Children and Young People'.
In addition I am also part of the First Paediatric Bipolar Disorder Surveillance Study of United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (PBSS-UK&ROI).

Esteem Indicators

Training
1. Awarded the Donald Court Travel Bursary to attend the 7th Bipolar Conference at Pittsburgh USA in June 2007 and to train on the WASH U KSADS at St Louis USA in November 2007.
2. Awarded the Donald Court Travel Bursary to attend the NIH Paediatric Bipolar Disorder Conference at Boston, USA 28th- 29th
March 2008
1. Autism Diagnostic Interview- Revised (ADI-R) for clinical and research purposes: Trained by Prof Le Couteur, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2. Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) Modules 1-4 for clinical and research purposes: Trained by Prof Bailey, Oxford, UK
3. Trained on the WASH U KSADS in Nov 2007 by Prof Geller, St Louis, USA
4. Received training on Clinical and Research methodology in Paediatric Bipolar Disorder at Stanford University, USA by Dr Kiki Chang: Nov 2007
5. Received training in Functional Imaging in Paediatric Bipolar Disorder at NIH, Bethesda, USA with Prof Leibenluft: July 2008
Presentations
1.Invited to lecture at Sitaram Bhartia Institute, New Delhi, India: October 2007
2.Invited to lecture at Department of Psychiatry, Lady Hardinge Medical College, University of Delhi, India: October 2007.
3.Invited to lecture at the North East Branch of the Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH): January 2008
4.Invited to lecture at the Safecare meeting of the Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust: February 2008
5.Invited to attend research meeting at Columbia University: February 2008
6.Invited to lecture at Stanford University, USA: March 2008
7. Invited to lecture at the Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Trust Journal Club (Tomlinson Teaching Centre Event): March 2008
8. Invited to attend: NIH Paediatric Bipolar Disorder Conference, Boston USA (March 2008). Also presenting a poster at the meet.

Funding

1. £10,000: May 2008 from R&D Department of NTW NHS Trust towards the COMPIC Study
2. £4,000: May 2008 from Mental Health Foundation North East Branch towards the COMPIC Study
3. £32,452: September 2008 from R&D Department of NTW NHS trust towards the Surveillance of Paediatric Bipolar Disorder in North East England

Undergraduate Teaching

Am involved in teaching of Stage 3 and Stage 5 Medical Students at Newcastle Medical School. In addition I also lecture to Final Year students at the Newcastle Dental School.

Postgraduate Teaching

I help coordinate the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Module of the MRCPsych course at Newcastle for Early Years postgraduate trainees in Psychiatry.
In addition, I lecture on the MRCPCH course for paediatric trainees.

• Goswami U, Varma A, Sharma A, Thompson JM, El-Badri S, Ferrier IN, Moore PB. A comparison of the neurocognitive deficits in bipolar disorder between New Delhi and Newcastle centres. In: Bipolar Disorders: 3rd Biennial Conference of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders. 2008, New Delhi, India: Wiley-Blackwell Munksgaard.
• Sharma A, Le Couteur AS, Nicholls D, Graham P, Lynn R, Ferrier IN. Paediatric Bipolar Disorder: A Way Forward. British Journal of Psychiatry 2008, 192, 150-152.
• Goswami U, Varma A, Young AH, Gulrajani C, Moore PB, Khastgir U, Sharma AN, Ferrier IN. Determinants of neurocognitive dysfunction in euthynhc bipolar disorder. In: Journal of Psychopharmacology: Summer Meeting of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. 2002, Harrogate: Sage Publications Ltd.
• Goswami U, Gulrajani C, Moore PB, Varma A, Young AH, Khastgir U, Sharma AN, Ferrier IN. Neurocognitive decline in bipolar mood disorder role of mood stabilizers. In: Journal of Psychopharmacology: Summer Meeting of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. 2002, Harrogate: Sage Publications Ltd.
• Lees KR, Dyker AG, Sharma A, Ford GA, Ardron ME, Grosset DG. Tolerability of the low-affinity, use-dependent NMDA antagonist AR-R15896AR in stroke patients: A dose-ranging study. Stroke 2001, 32(2), 466-472.