Biography
Ann joined the Board in November 2023.
She is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, working clinically with young people, families and adults throughout her 35-year career in the NHS. She has held senior leadership roles in NHS England, the Department of Health (now called the Department of Health and Social Care) and at The Care Quality Commission. Her leadership roles have included several national policy programmes and initiatives across London, the Southeast and Southwest.
Ann ran the child psychiatry undergraduate programme at St George’s Hospital Medical school for 10 yrs. She has publications on depression, autism and ADHD and a service model called the Choice and Partnership Approach.
Ann was educated locally at Thames Valley Grammar school in Twickenham (which was on the Waldegrave school site) and studied medicine at the Royal Free/University of London, qualifying in 1982. Early in her medical career she decided to specialise in psychiatry, initially working with adults and then specialising further in children and young people’s mental health. She was lead consultant in a community child and adolescent mental health team in Richmond for many years, and currently works in mental health quality improvement nationally and internationally, both with statutory services and the third sector.
Ann has lived in the Borough of Richmond for most of her life. She enjoys spending time with her family; philosophy and science; writing poetry for pleasure; being active and learning new things. Ann is happiest in mud on a cold, bright or rainy early morning! She loves and appreciates difference, having grown up in a neurodiverse family.