Dr Michael Grant, Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist and Health Tech Entrepreneur
Dr Michael Grant
OVERVIEW
Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych)
Specialist Register for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (GMC)
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)
Post-graduate training, The Oxford School of Psychiatry, Core Psychiatry Training programme
Post-graduate training, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychiatry program (Higher Training Programme)
Publications:
A systematic review) in the area of Tourette Syndrome, mental health and exercise during his time as an honorary researcher at the Institute of Child Health / UCL / Great Ormond Street Hospital
Steering Comittee Member for the Value Based CAMHS Commission, which was a collaboration between the Royal College of Psychiatry, Young Minds and The Collaborating Centre for Values-based practice in Health and Social Care
Expertise
Dr Michael Grant is an experienced and well respected Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist.
He has over 13 years of experience offering specialist child and adolescent psychiatric services and trained under industry leaders at Oxford School of Psychiatry (3 years), Great Ormond Street Hospital and the UCL Institute of Child Health (3 years) as a Specialist Registrar and Honorary Researcher in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He subsequently led neurodevelopmental pathways in private and NHS clinics. This included an established private clinic based in Hampstead Heath and the East London and Barnet Enfield and Haringey NHS Trusts.
Dr Grant’s area of special interest is Neurodiversity and Neurodevelopmental Disorders in young people including the fields of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Tourette Syndrome. His extensive experience in this field allows him to effectively assess and treat young people within this pathway employing a targeted and knowledgeable approach.
Dr Grant also has experience and knowledge around the effects of exercise on neurodevelopmental disorders and mental health. He has also worked with many elite athletes and coaches as a sports psychiatrist due to his previous participation in athletics and football personally. He is also an expert in emerging applicable health technology including developing an app that reduces the Autism and ADHD assessment administration burden for clinicians, which was accredited by Amazon Web Services (AWS) during the Covid-19 pandemic. He remains under their Health Care Talent programme and is passionate about reducing waiting lists nationally in the longer term.
With his considerable experience, Dr Grant can offer reassuring support and individualized plans to young people who are navigating neurodevelopmental and mental health challenges.
Dr Grant’s training in neurodevelopmental disorders and psychiatric (mental) health covers a broad range of psychiatric specialties including Forensic, General CAMHS and Adult Psychiatry, Learning Disability, Old Age Psychiatry and Addiction. To date, he has conducted over 5000 neurodevelopmental and mental health assessments, with a peak of 500 in one year during the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr Grant works on the front line navigating the complexities around Neurodevelopmental and Young Peoples General Mental Health (CAMHS) and the unacceptably long waiting lists for young people.
Shortly after he became a Consultant in 2018, Dr Grant founded WellbeingCV Limited (doing business today as “Wellbeing Associates”). Since he became a consultant, Dr Grant has focused on addressing the long waiting lists that exist for young people that require an assessment for Autism.
Across all NHS trusts and within the private sector there is a shortage of specialist staff who have the capacity to carry out the sheer volume of assessments. The processes in place are often time consuming, including the actual assessment and there is a conflict between staff helping those with other acute mental health difficulties and more routine assessments such as ASD assessments.
Training:
Oxford School of Psychiatry (3 years) including an overall systemic approach to mental health and training across the wide array of evidence based psychotherapeutic approaches.
Great Ormond Street Hospital and the UCL Institute of Child Health (3 years) as a Specialist Registrar and Honorary Researcher in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. This included the national second opinion service for Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS), Neurodevelopmental Conditions, and the Epilepsy Surgical Programme.
Consultant Experience:
He subsequently led Neurodevelopmental (ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), OCD, Tourette Syndrome), Paediatric Psychiatric Liaison and Generic CAMHS pathways (Depression, Anxiety Disorders and Behavioural difficulties) within Private Healthcare and NHS clinics. This included an established private clinic based in Hampstead Heath and NHS pathways for the East London and Barnet Enfield and Haringey NHS Trusts.
Additional Expertise in:
The effects of exercise on neurodevelopmental disorders and mental health. He published a systematic review on this area after drawing attention to this neglected area during his time as part of a collaboration between UCL, the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Health Technology applicable to the assessment of neurodevelopmental and mental health disorders. He has developed an app accredited by Amazon Web Services (AWS) during the Covid-19 pandemic for which he remains under the AWS Health Care Talent programme.
His extensive experience in these field allows him to effectively assess and treat young people within these pathways, employing a targeted, knowledgeable and evidenced-based approach that involves the correct team around the child (multidisciplinary team) for those with neurodevelopmental and / or mental health challenges.
“I am a passionate believer in evidence-based approaches to treatment and recovery.
Young people and families all over the world deserve an expert comprehensive assessment, formulation +/- diagnosis and psycho-education.
Wellbeing Associates will rely on the most advanced and practical technologies to deliver this standard of care globally, at reasonable cost.”
PROGRESS
Dr Grant is currently focused on:
Clinical Work: Fostering a smaller bespoke Non-Acute CAMHS outpatient service for London and the Home Counties private clients.
NHS and Health Technology: Supporting the NHS indirectly through mass scale health technology innovations and Public Health initiatives.
He has developed face to face traditional systems that allow for three Autism assessments to be completed in full, each day with 3 members of staff. He worked 3-5 days in a row in various locations (Isle of Wight, Surrey, Kent, Hampshire and within Central and Greater London). His work reduced the excessively long waiting lists temporarily within these small pockets of the UK but did not solve the wider chronic issue of children not being assessed in a timely fashion. He assessed young people and their families directly through the NHS, private commissioning through the NHS and indirectly through private practise.