Who we are

Meet our highly experienced team.

Dr Julia Lewis MBBS, MRCGP, MRCPsych, MSc, MD.

Dr Julia Lewis a consultant addiction psychiatrist and clinical lead for addiction services in the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. She is also a visiting professor with the university of South Wales where she is involved in research and policy development around ARBD. She has run an ARBD clinic within an addiction service since 2014 and was one of the authors of the Welsh Treatment Framework for ARBD. She is also a member of the working group developing the first UK clinical guidelines on the management of alcohol use disorders and is chair of the subgroup writing the section on ARBD. She is an amateur actor and published playwright and has been told on more than one occasion that she has too many cats.

Kenneth Wilson MbChB, MPhil, MD, FRCPsych

Kenneth Wilson MbChB, MPhil, MD, FRCPsych is a retired Professor of Psychiatry (University of Liverpool). His clinical service provision has focused on the care of younger people with dementia and the development of services for people suffering from alcohol related brain damage. He has devoted much of his research to the epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of depression in older, frail people. In 2012 the alcohol related brain damage service won the prestigious Royal College of Psychiatrists community team award and Professor Wilson edited the Royal College of Psychiatrists Guidelines (CR185) for the management of people with alcohol related brain damage. He has made a number of contributions to academic books and has published in scientifically reviewed press with regard to alcohol related brain damage.