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Dr Belea has worked as a consultant psychiatrist in South West London and St George’s NHS Trust since 2011 and most of her psychiatry training was carried out in the same Trust. She worked for seven years as an addiction consultant psychiatrist and seven years as an ADHD consultant psychiatrist, covering Sutton and Merton boroughs in both posts. In between, she has also worked as a general adult consultant psychiatrist.

Dr Belea graduated in medicine in Romania in 1998 and trained in psychiatry for two years before moving to the UK. Her main interests are the interface between psychiatry and spirituality, cultural psychiatry and mentoring, being the lead of the mentoring scheme that she established within her Trust.

Her lifelong interest in ADHD was aroused by her patients in addiction. One of her addiction patients was the first to convince the Trust to gain a referral to Professor Nutt for assessment and treatment of ADHD and subsequently others followed. Years later this led to the establishment of the ADHD services within South West London and St George’s NHS Trust. It was only when Dr Belea moved to the ADHD service that she realised how many ADHD diagnoses she had missed in the addiction service. Now she thinks that ADHD plus addiction/harmful use is one of the most challenging conditions to treat, and not only because of the NHS fragmented services.