Events

Dr Sunil Pulapaka is an experienced Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist with 16 years’ experience in CAMHS. He has been a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists since 2005, completing his certificate of training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from Greater Glasgow and Clyde & Lanarkshire NHS Trust.
Working within child and adolescent services he has gained considerable experience in the identification, assessment, and treatment of numerous disorders, including anxiety, depression, OCD, eating disorders and early onset psychosis, as well as attachment and post-traumatic stress disorders and foetal alcohol syndrome. Dr Pulapaka is clinical lead for the neurodevelopmental service, and is responsible for the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of neurodevelopmental conditions (including ADHD, tic disorders, and ASD). He is trained in 3DI, DISCO and ADOS tools for assessment of ASD.
Dr Pulapaka is a regional advisor for RCPsych CAP faculty, Wales, CASC Examiner for Royal College of Psychiatry, PLAB examiner for the GMC and recruitment lead and educational supervisor for Health Education and Improvement Wales.

Kirk is a Learning Disability Nurse, who qualified in 1995. He works mainly with children and has a particular interest in autism, as he and his two children are diagnosed autistic. More recently Kirk became involved in Swindon Community CAMHS neurodevelopmental pathway and has developed a post-diagnosis psychoeducation session based on his own research, information from autistic advocates and feedback from the children and families he works with. Like the majority of autistic adults, he prefers identity-first language, but doesn’t insist on it.

Born in Northern Ireland, Dr Patricia D. Jackson trained as a Paediatrician at Edinburgh University specialising in neuro-developmental assessment. Her previous role in NHS Lothian was the development and organisation of Learning Disability Services for children and young people. She established, and was the Clinical Lead for, the CEN NMCN (National Care Network in Scotland for Children with Exceptional Health Care Needs).
She co-chaired the SIGN (Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network) guideline group which published the first UK National Clinical guideline for children and young people exposed pre-natally to alcohol in 2019.
Dr Jackson continues teaching and researching, and has a special interest in FASD, and sleep in children and young people with additional support needs or neurodiversity. Her current teaching commitments include course development and tutoring for ‘Sleep Action’.
Dr Jackson also works with several children’s organisations on a voluntary basis and is Vice Chair of Down’s Syndrome Scotland and the Cattanach Trust, and a Trustee for ‘The Yard’ and Children’s Health Scotland.

Dr Juan Claudio Ferre Vidal is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry working full-time in the Neurodevelopmental Service (Community Child Health) in Cardiff and the Vale UHB. After nearly 15 years working in CAMHS, both in the UK as well as in Spain for a while, Dr Vidal moved to the newly created Neurodevelopmental Service 7 years ago.

Dr. Reddy is a psychiatrist based with the Adult Community Mental Health Team in Swansea, Wales. He has been involved in the assessment and management of adult ADHD since 2005 and is the lead for adult ADHD in the Swansea Health Board. He is also the UKAAN lead, Wales, for adult ADHD.