Professor Alex O'Neill-Kerr

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Works at Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as a General Adult Psychiatrist and has been the Trusts Medical Director since 2003. Visiting Professor in Neuromodulation at Northampton University. My passion is delivering innovative new treatments for patients.

Special interests:
Private Practice at Transforming Mind Solutions, Specialising in rTMS, tDCS, Psychiatric Pharmacological testing, Nasal and Oral Ketamine

Head of The Centre for Neuromodulation delivering new treatments for depression such as rTMS, TBS, TDCS and ketamine infusion

Lead consultant for ECT and related physical treatments in Psychiatry, led on Nurse Administered ECT nationally.

Principal Investigator, Northampton for the NIHR study looking at rTMS versus Theta Burst in the treatment of depression

Sat on the ECT and related treatments committe of the Royal College of Psychiatry. Provides advice on rTMS, Nurse Administered ECT and ECT clinics.

Professor O'Neill-Kerr has published and lectured nationally and internationally on Neuromodulation and ECT and contributed chapters to The ECT Handbook Fourth Edition, in publication.

Specialist advisor to the GMC, NCAS Clinical Assessor for the past 10 years.

Professor O'Neill-Kerr is the Trust's Medical Director and is responsible for Research and Innovation, Medicines Management, Clinical Effectiveness and Quality.