Organizing Committee

Prof. Ayman Guirguis is a UK trained consultant psychiatrist, certified by the General Medical Council in Old Age Psychiatry with additional subspecialty endorsement in liaison psychiatry, approved clinical and educational supervisor. He has 26 years of experience in mental disorder, academic and managerial roles in the National Health Service (NHS) University hospitals in the UK, assessing and treating a wide broad range of psychiatric disorders, either functional or organic with multiple comorbidities. Service development, clustering, care quality and operational management pathways.

He moved from the UK 1 year ago as consultant liaison psychiatrist, clinical lead of the liaison service at Oxford Health Foundation Trust, National Spinal Injury Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Professor of clinical psychiatry (honorary), department of psychiatry, University of Oxford. He was previously a consultant psychiatrist in Cambridge and Peterborough NHS foundation Trust, visiting researcher and undergraduate tutor at the department of psychiatry university of Cambridge.

Prof. Guirguis managed to combine his training and early consultant career with academic research and PhD focused on mood disorder and fatigue in renal disease. The recognition of his growing profile in liaison psychiatry is reflected in being awarded Clinical Excellence Award for 3 consecutive years from 2018 to 2020. His research interests include mood disorder and fatigue in chronic physical illness and end‐stage kidney disease which was the topic of his doctoral thesis. He presented his work nationally and internationally and was awarded by the NIHR for best non-clinical study for the year 2022-2023.