Abstract:
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a condition that affects children from an early age.
ADHD is a journey that is experienced for the young person as well as for the clinician treating the condition. Treatment of ADHD is one of the most evidenced based conditions to be treated. If successfully treated, the outcome for the individual and their family is most beneficial.
Young people learn to live with the chronic signs and symptoms. The objectives of this talk are threefold: 1) To learn of the patient’s personal experiences of living with ADHD on a day to day basis.
- To acquire knowledge of the experience of the clinician along the journey of their patients and their families.
- To learn more about factors affecting the success of t intervention processes, medication and non-medication based.
Biography:
Dr. EL ABD is an Egyptian British Child and Adolescent Consultant Psychiatrist. She has been practicing medicine in the UK since 1985 and in Dubai since 2015.
Dr El Abd practices at the Happiness Clinic in Dubai and at the Cromwell Hospital in London.
She had the position of a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist since 1998 in the UK, where she worked at St George’s Hospital Medical School in London and at the Maudsley Hospital (South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust).
Dr El Abd’s main emphasis is in maximizing the potential of children, adolescents and their parents - in particular those with special needs. She obtained the degrees of MSc (ped) and FRCPsych (London) and has completed her CCST (Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training) in London.
Dr El Abd has been invited by Dubai Health Authority in the UAE as a Visiting Consultant from the UK From the period of 2004 till 2014 to help set up a service and run clinics and workshops for parents and teachers at Al Wasl Hospital in Dubai ( Current Latifa Hospital) and helped set up a neuropsychiatric clinic at the hospital with the practicing neurology colleagues..
Dr El Abd is a Director in Child and Family Training (C&FT) which is a not-for-profit organisation in the UK that aims to guide professionals help children and families by: promoting children’s and young people’s health and development. Training guides were developed by C&FT to help practitioners who work with children and families.The guides have now been translated into many languages including the Arabic language. Training courses are provided across the UK and abroad for professionals in health, children’s social care, child and adolescent mental health, education and independent organisations in different languages including Arabic. Training has been recently undertaken in Oman, Egypt and UAE.
Dr El Abd is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK. Fellowship is awarded by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK as a mark of distinction and recognition of contributions to Psychiatry.
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