CURRICULUM VITAE
NEIL J. HUNT
M.A., M.D., M.R.C.Psych.
DATE OF BIRTH: 27 October 1959
NATIONALITY: British
GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL: Full registration (Number 2803951)
MEDICAL DEFENCE UNION: Full membership
CURRENT POST: Consultant Psychiatrist
(Since 1993) Fulbourn Hospital
Cambridge
CB1 5EF
Tel: 01223 218807
Fax: 01223 218817
e-mail: nh212@cam.ac.uk
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:
B.A. in Medical Sciences 1977 ‑ 1980
Queens' College, Cambridge University
(Part II in Neurosciences and History of Medicine)
M.B., B.S. 1980 ‑ 1983
St George's Hospital, University of London
Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists 1987
Laughlin Prize for Psychiatric Residents 1989
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
M.D. 1993
on ‘The causes of recurrence in Bipolar Affective Disorder’
University of London
Approved under section 12 of the Mental Health Act (1983)
Current Job description:
Consultant Psychiatrist
Cambridgeshire Mental Health Trust
Fulbourn Hospital
Clinical role - This is a full time post
General Psychiatry
This is a split time clinical post to which he was appointed in 1993. He is responsible for the community and inpatient services to the Safron Walden area in Essex. He works in conjunction with three other Consultants who cover the rural area around Cambridge. He is the Consultant for the Community team from the North Essex MH Trust for those adults who live in North Uttlesford. The total adult population covered is about 35,000.
Inpatient services: Dr Hunt works with the multidisciplinary team on Adrian House, Fulbourn Hospital, and is the main point of contact between the ward and the community team.
Community services: In North Essex he works with the multidisciplinary team including Community Psychiatric Nurses, Social services staff, Clinical psychologist and Occupational Therapist. He provides an outpatient clinic at the community hospital in Saffron Walden and undertakes urgent reviews of patients in the community usually in conjunction with the CPNs or GPs.
Special interest (half time) in Intensive Care
Dr Hunt has been responsible for the general adult psychiatry patients on the Psychiatric High Dependency Unit at Fulbourn Hospital since its opening in 1995. George Mackenzie House is a 20 bed facility which has a low level of security and also admits patients under the Forensic Psychiatry service. All patients are detained under the Mental Health Act, referrals are mainly from Cambridgeshire but also come from other parts of East Anglia and beyond. This is a tertiary referral service and he is responsible for the assessment prior to admission and liaison with Consultant referrers. He works with the multidisciplinary team on the ward in both the day to day management and the longer term planning for the patients. There is a strong focus on the ward on productive daytime activity, personal responsibility as well as ensuring positive self care and compliance with appropriate treatment. There are weekly multidisciplinary review and care planning meeting along with the Consultant in Forensic Psychiatry.
Dr Hunt has joint responsibility for the provision of Electro- Convulsive Therapy at Addenbrooke’s hospital, inlcuding training.
Dr Hunt also supervises trainees, including SHOs and Specialist Registrars in General Psychiatry. He also works with a Staff Grade Doctor.
He is on the Consultant Psychiatry on call rota and is also on call for consideration of referrals for admission to GMH.
Other professional roles
Dr Hunt was the Clinical Director in Adult Psychiatry between 2000 - 2004. He currently chairs the Medicines Management committee (formerly drug and therapeutics) and the Medical Advisory Group for the Mental Health Trust.
He is on the Eastern Region section 12 (Mental Health Act) approval panel (and was chairman for five years when he initiated and then ran training courses in the use of Act).
He has previously been chairman of the Mental Health Audit committee and the Special Needs Placement Panel. He has been the lead Consultant for the Mental Health Act. He is an Appraiser for Consultant Psychiatrists. He has provided psychiatric expertise in complaint and inquiry procedures.
Dr Hunt is an Associate Lecturer at the clinical school of the University of Cambridge. He lectures on the clinical course in psychiatry on clinical psychopharmacology to the medical students and has students attached. He examines students in their end of course assessments and in the final MB exam. He has represented the University of Cambridge on Appointments committees in the Region.
Apart from supervision of the SHO and Specialist Registrar attached to the firm, he teaches the SHOs and Registrars on dealing with violence, the management of acute behavioural disturbance, ECT and the Mental Health Act. He also lectures on the MRCPsych Course particularly on Bipolar disorder.
He organises and teaches at local post graduate meetings (PGEA approved) for General Practitioners on management of depression, bipolar illness and also violence. He lectures at Postgraduate meetings for Psychiatrists on Bipolar disorder, depression and violence. He has a close link with the Cambridge Manic Depressive Fellowship and contribute to their meetings as well as a regular ‘Ask the doctor’ article in their local newsletter, some of these articles are reprinted in the national magazine.
He has had a book published in the ‘Your Questions Answered’ series entitled ‘bipolar disorder’.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
General:
Jul '83 - Jan '84 House Officer, General Medicine and Geriatrics
St. George's Hospital, London
Feb '84 - Jul '84 House Surgeon, General Surgery
Kingston Hospital, Surrey
Aug '84 - Jan '85 SHO, Accident and Emergency
St. George's Hospital, London
Feb '85 - Jul '85 SHO, Neurology
Norfolk & Norwich Hospital, Norwich
Psychiatric Training:
SHO/Registrar Rotational Training Scheme
St. Bartholomew's Hospital Teaching Group, London
August 1985 - September 1988
Higher Psychiatric Training:
Clinical Research Fellow and Hon. Lecturer
Academic Unit of Human Psychopharmacology
Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital
October 1988 to January 1992
This post was granted recognition for higher training purposes for two years by the Joint Committee on Higher Psychiatric Training.
Oxford Regional Senior Registrar Rotation
Senior Registrar to Dr R. Fieldsend and Dr J. Small
Chiltern Community Mental Health Team
January 1992 to May 1993
Senior Registrar to Dr A. Hadi
Community Mental Health Team for the elderly
May 1993 to August 1993
PUBLICATIONS:
N. Hunt and V.R. Touquet (1986) Known epileptics brought to the accident and emergency department. Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 15,225‑226
N. Hunt (1987) Hypoglycaemic effect of lithium. Biological Psychiatry, 22, 798‑799
N. Hunt and V.R. Blacker (1987) Delusional Parasitosis. British Journal of Psychiatry, 150, 713‑714
J. Cookson, B. Natorf, N. Hunt, T. Silverstone and G. Uppfelt (1989) Efficacy, safety and tolerability of Raclopride, a specific D2 receptor blocker in the treatment of acute schizophrenia. International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 4, 61‑70
N. Hunt and T. Silverstone (1990) Seasonal affective disorder following brain injury. British Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 884‑886
N. Hunt, N. Prior and C. Vize (1990) Report on East‑Anglian division trainees day. Psychiatric Bulletin. 14, 409-410
N. Hunt and T. Silverstone (1991) Tardive Dyskinesia in Bipolar Affective Disorder: A catchment area study. International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 6, 45-50
M. Gill, D. Castle, N. Hunt, A. Clements, P. Sham & R. Murray (1991) Tyrosine hydroxylase polymorphisms and bipolar affective disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research 25, 179-184
N. Hunt, H. Sayer and T. Silverstone (1992) Season and manic relapse. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 85, 123-126
N. Hunt, W. Bruce-Jones and T. Silverstone (1992) Life events and relapse in bipolar affective disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders 25, 13-20
N. Hunt (1992) Research training: 'a view from within'. Bulletin of the Association of University Teachers of Psychiatry (Spring).
N. Hunt (1992) Seasonal affective disorders. British Journal of Hospital Medicine 48, 245-249
C. Walsh, A. Hicks, P. Sham, D. Castle, N. Hunt, A. Clements, T. Sander, R. Murray, M. Darlinson & M. Gill (1992) GABAA receptor subunit genes as candidate genes for bipolar affective disorder. Psychiatric Genetics 2, 239-247
PUBLICATIONS (continued):
N. Hunt (1992) External factors in bipolar relapse in 'Bipolar Disorder'. The Medicine Group, Abingdon.
S. Shaik, D. Ball, N. Craddock, D. Castle, N. Hunt, R. Mant, M. Owen, D. Collier & M. Gill (1992) The Dopamine D3 receptor gene: no association with bipolar affective disorder. Journal of Medical Genetics 30, 308-309
N. Hunt, S. Adams, N. Coxhead, H. Sayer, C. Murray & T. Silverstone (1993) The incidence of mania in two areas in the United Kingdom. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 28, 281-284
J. Körner, M. Rietschel, N.Hunt, D. Castle, M. Gill, M. Nöthen, N. Craddock, J. Daniels, M. Owen, et al (1994) Association and haplotype analysis at the tyrosine hydroxylase locus in a combined German-British sample of manic depressive patients and controls. Psychiatric Genetics 4:3 167-75
L. Lim, M. Nöthen, J. Körner, M. Rietschel, D Castle, N. Hunt, P. Propping, R. Murray and M. Gill (1994) No evidence of association between dopamine D4 receptor variants and bipolar disorder. American Journal of Medical Genetics 54:3 259-63
T. Silverstone, S. Romans-Clarkson, N. Hunt & H. McPherson (1995) Is there a seasonal pattern of relapse in bipolar affective disorders? British Journal of Psychiatry 167, 58-60
L. Lim, J. Powell, P. Sham, D. Castle, N. Hunt, R. Murray, M. Gill (1995) Evidence for a genetic association between alleles of monoamine oxidase A gene and bipolar affective disorder. American Journal of Medical Genetics 60:4 325-31
N. Hunt and T. Silverstone (1995) Does puerperal illness distinguish a subgroup of bipolar patients? Journal of Affective Disorders 34, 101-107
E. Dawson, M. Gill, D. Curtis, D. Castle, N. Hunt, R. Murray, J. Powell (1995) Genetic association between alleles of pancreatic phospholipase A2 gene and bipolar affective disorder. Psychiatric Genetics 5:4 177-80
S. Robling, T. Flynn, N. Hunt, C. Gregory and M. McBreen (1997) Audit of drug management of acute behavioural disturbance. Psychiatric Bulletin 21, 440-444
T. Silverstone, H. McPherson, N. Hunt, S. Romans (1998) How effective is lithium in the prevention of relapse in bipolar disorder? A prospective naturalistic follow-up study. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry.32:61-6
S. Eaton, N. Hunt (2000) Prediction of violence on a psychiatric intensive care unit. Medicine, Science and the law. 40: 143-6
PUBLICATIONS (continued):
K. Macritchie, N. Hunt (2000) Does "rebound mania" occur after stopping carbamazepine?. Journal of Psychopharmacology 14(3) 266-268
G. Murray, H. Nandhra, N.Hymas and N. Hunt (2003) Psychiatrists omit information from clinic letters when they know patients will be sent copies (22 February 2003) BMJ 326, 449
G.Goodwin (on behalf of the BAP consensus group) (2003) Evidence based guidelines for treating bipolar disorder. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 17, 140-173
N. Farrelly, C. Dibben and N. Hunt (2004) Evaluation of the management of bipolar affective disorder. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 18 (abstract supplement) A15, MA21
R. Jacob and N. Hunt (2005) Treatment of acute behavioural disturbance. Clinical Governance: An International Journal 10, 270-275
C. Dibben, M. L. Wong and N.Hunt (2005) Mental Health Tribunals: an issue for clinical governance. Clinical Governance: An International Journal 10, 300-303
N. Farrelly, C. Dibben and N. Hunt (2006) Current Management of Bipolar Affective Disorder: Is it Reflective of the BAP Guidelines? Journal of Psychopharmacology 20,128-131
Books:
T. Silverstone and N. Hunt (1991) Symptomatology and assessment of mania. Chapter in 'The Handbook of Affective Disorders' 2nd edition (Ed E. Paykel). Livingstone, Edinburgh
Chapter in OSCEs in Psychiatry (2004) edited by A. Michael: ‘Explain management of bipolar affective disorder’
Neil Hunt (2004) Bipolar Disorder – Your Questions Answered. Elsevier. ISBN 0443100705