Gareth has been a passionate advocate for the Open Dialogue approach to mental healthcare for the last 10 years. Having helped set up and deliver the ODDESSI study trial site in Haringey, he went on to set up the UK’s largest implementation pilot in South Westminster. He regularly writes blog articles, presents a podcast, Open POD and publishes Youtube videos on the subject, and has presented at multiple national and international conferences.
Gareth is also a champion of Quality Improvement, with that approach informing how he leads mental health services at all levels. He has been an Associate Medical Director for Quality Improvement at Barnet Enfield and Haringey NHS Mental Health Trust and a QI Fellow at UCL Partners. In 2025 he was invited to give the QI Masterclass to Singapore General Hospital on the work he led as Medical Director at Central and North West London NHS Trust on improving flow across inpatient mental health services.
Gareth has many years of senior clinical leadership experience having completed the NHS Leadership Academy’s Nye Bevan Programme, a post-masters award in Executive Healthcare Leadership, and held senior medical leadership positions across three different organisations. Gareth has over six years of experience of Board level leadership as a Trustee of Gamcare, the national gambling harms treatment charity, as well as being Chair of their Clinical Quality Committee.
Gareth also holds Masters degrees in Psychiatric Research (UCL) and Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals (Bristol). Gareth’s education dissertation went on to win Best Research Paper at AMEE in Helsinki 2017 (the world’s largest annual medical education conference), looking at the learning cultures of mental health inpatient units.
In 2025 Gareth was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in recognition of his contributions to the field of Psychiatry.
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