Treatment Team

Psychiatrists

All our psychiatist consultants are recognised and registered with all major private health insurance companies.

Dr Declan Fitzpatrick M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., MRCPsych
Dr Declan Fitzpatrick graduated from Trinity College, Dublin University’s medical school. His postgraduate psychiatric training was completed in Dublin and London. His specialist Registrar training was completed in the Maudsley and Bethlem Hospitals in London and the Institute of Psychiatry.

He is a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist and also holds an academic appointment as Senior Lecturer in Guy’s Hospital London. He is also an external examiner in neuro-pharmacology for Brighton University, and is a tutor and examiner on DPP courses for universities in India, Pakistan and Egypt. He is a frequent speaker at national and international meetings on liaison and neuropsychiatry, as well as general adult psychiatry.

Dr S K Ahmed MRCPsych, FRCPsych
After studying medicine and psychiatry in Baghdad, Iraq, Dr Ahmed was employed as Registrar in Adult Psychiatry at the Yarmouk Teaching Hospital in Baghdad. He came to the United Kingdom in 1979 and took a full time postgraduate course in Clinical Neurology at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London. His first post was trainee Clinical Assistant at the Maudsley Hospital, London. After a wide and varied career, which has included general Psychiatry, Liaison Psychiatry, Rehabilitation, Teaching and Research Dr Ahmed now works as Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry within our local NHS Trust. He is the Trusts lead Consultant in ECT.

Dr Sayeed Ahmed MBBS
Dr Sayeed Ahmed has worked at the Clinic for many years and held the position of Director of Acute Psychiatry. He studied medicine and psychiatry in Bang lore, India, before arriving in the United Kingdom in 1973. After his first SHO post at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland, Dr Ahmed moved to the south of England. He has since worked mainly in the local NHS Trust. He has a special interest in liaison psychiatry and also has extensive experience in medico-legal work.

Dr Hamid Naliyawala MBBS, MCPS, MRCPsych
Dr Naliyawala has been on the specialist register of the GMC under general psychiatry since March 1999. His current post is consultant psychiatrist, general adult psychiatry. His special interests are the management of schizophrenia including treatment-resistant and other psychotic disorders, psychosexual disorders and depressive disorders.

Dr M Isaac MBBCH, MRCPsych, PGCert in Medical Education
Dr Isaac has completed his postgraduate psychiatric training at Guy’s scheme. He had training in Adult Psychiatry, Old Age Psychiatry, Liaison, Substance Misuse, Community Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. His Specialist Training in Old Age and General Adult Psychiatry was through South London and the Maudsley NHS, Guy’s Scheme, which he completed in 2006.

He adopts a person centred and holistic approach with values of reprect ensuring privacy and dignity of his patients. He works with patients their carers and other professionals to deliver the best care for patients to enable them to achive better quality of life using biological, psycholigical and social interventions in a bio-psycho-social model of care.

Dr Isaac holds an academic appointment as an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). He has taught in modules organised by the postgraduate institute and in local academic programmes. He is part of the group organising and delivering the Sussex MRCPsych part I and part II Course.

He published papers on prevention of suicide at Beachy Head, The anticipated influx of East European psychiatrists and a Cochrane review on Vitamin E for Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment. He is involved in an active research programme.

Dr Isaac has special interest in Adult and Old Age mood disorder, Alcohol and drug addiction, Anxiety disorder and Psychosis. He is also interested in suicide prevention, cognitive impairment and dementia’s management and research. He is an active member of the suicide and homicide review group in East Sussex.

Dr Isaac is a Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry at Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust and has had a long experience in General Adult and Old Age Psychiatry.