Dr Joe Johnson
Consultant Psychiatrist and North West Lead for UKAAN (UK Adult ADHD Network), Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr Joe Johnson leads the adult ADHD Service of the North West Boroughs NHS Trust. Dr Johnson has over 15 years of Consultant experience of working in acute and community psychiatry, and in prison settings; assessing and managing all common mental health conditions.
Having completed his higher training in psychiatry from the University of Liverpool, he took up a consultant post at the North West Boroughs NHS Trust in February 2005. He set up the Adult ADHD Service at the Trust in 2009, and has since been heading this service, which is one of the biggest ADHD service providers in the North West. He is the North West lead for the national organisation UKAAN (UK Adult ADHD Network).
He has been involved in a multi-centre clinical trial in adult ADHD, fully funded by the University of Manchester. He has delivered ADHD training programmes to a variety of professionals including psychiatrists, GPs, nurses, occupational therapists, probation officers and other practitioners in mental health across the UK and has also been invited to speak at national and international conferences.
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Watch our ADHD study day on demand, where we were joined by Mr Kobus van Rensburg, Dr Joe Johnson, Dr Olimpia Belea, Dr Asif Bachlani and Dr Judith Mohring. They explored key challenges in adult ADHD care, including the impact of comorbidities, coping strategies that mask symptoms, and complexities in diagnosing women. The conference also covers dual diagnoses with autism, treatment optimisation, and the link between ADHD and addiction.