He is versed in the use of medication and working in multidisciplinary team to achieve rapid turnover of very unwell patients. He has been working in psychiatric intensive care units for several years. His contribution spans across fields including General Adult psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, Addiction and Rehabilitation Psychiatry. He also has a Master’s degree with Distinction in Neuropsychiatry.
Dr Akintomide has been involved with peers in developing new healthcare services and supporting services to achieve improvements in the area of clinical care and care planning. He is the leading figure in pioneering of 7Cs enhanced observation protocol. 7Cs is a systemic, collaborative way of managing enhanced observation that have led to reduction in the length of restrictive continuous observation especially in the acute and psychiatric intensive care units. He won the Cygnet Medical Leader of the Year award in 2022.
His passions are in the area of improving the physical healthcare of psychiatric patients. He has led initiatives in this area, including developing training programs, creating a physical health competence checklist for psychiatrists, writing policies on alcohol detoxification, IM clozapine, fingerprick clozapine monitoring, high dose antipsychotic monitoring, rapid tranquilisation and a protocol on general inpatient use of opiate.
Dr Akintomide is a mentor, a supervisor and a teacher. He has published papers in peer-reviewed journals in the area of narcolepsy, personality disorders, catatonia, dementia and functional assessments. He was recently elected as an executive committee member of the General Adult Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
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