Professor Steven Hirsch. Consultant in adult psychiatry

Clinical Practice at: The Priory Hospital, Priory Lane, Roehampton, SW 15 Private Secretary:   Sheila McKenzie Tel:   0207 386 1233 Mobile:   07780 878851 Fax:   0207 386 1216

Email:   sheila.mck@btinternet.com

Centre of Neurosciences
Imperial College London
Charing Cross Hospital site
St Dunstans Road, London W6 8RP 

Academic Address: Fax:   0208 944 0308
For appointments contact Professor Hirsch at 07968 065 464
Email:   s.hirsch@ic.ac.uk

Professor Steven Hirsch is a Consultant in adult psychiatry, with broad clinical responsibilities. He was Professor and Head of Department of Psychiatry at Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School and is now Professor Emeritus at Imperial College Faculty of Medicine. 

He is widely published on social, biological, clinical and service research - and is the author of over 300 abstracts, chapters and refereed publications and several books. Professor Hirsch originated and organized the Bi-enniel Winter Workshop on Schizophrenia Research, the principal meeting in Europe on Schizophrenia research now (www.wwpsych.org). 

His clinical expertise covers all aspects of adult psychiatry, such as anxiety and depressive syndromes, reactions to personal and work related stress, diagnosis and treatment of patients at risk of psychosis, bi-polar and related disorders, schizophrenia and difficult to diagnose mental states, patients with memory problems and related disorders, and the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety based disorders. 

As an Expert Witness, he has had extensive experience in providing opinions to the GMC, Medical Defence Societies and in civil, criminal, employment, personal injury and family cases. He is Past Chairman of the Association of Clinical Professors of Psychiatry, the Association of University Professors of Psychiatry, the Psychiatric Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Psycho-Pharmacology sub-committee of the Royal College of Psychiatry.