The staff at the Centre have particular expertise in appreciating the reality of ADHD, and the strong possibility of the vulnerability created by ADHD progressing in one way or another.

The staff list includes:

Dr Geoff Kewley MB BS FRCP FRCPCH FRACP DCH
 
Dr Geoff Kewley is a Consultant Paediatrician specialising in the management of children with neurodevelopmental, behavioural and learning difficulties, especially Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and related issues.  In 1993, after 16 years as a Consultant Paediatrician in Australia and 4 as a Consultant Paediatrician in the NHS in the UK, he established the Learning Assessment & Neurocare Centre in Horsham, West Sussex, from concern at the lack of availability of effective services for such conditions. 

Dr Kewley has written several books.  These include a book on general paediatrics entitled ‘Common Paediatric Problems’.  More recently he has published three books on AD/HD, an initial landmark book first published in 1999 entitled ‘AD/HD: Recognition, Reality and Resolution’.  More recently he has published two books for teachers, the first: ‘AD/HD what can teachers do?’ published by David Fulton in 2005, having first been published by LAC Press in 1999; and ‘100 ideas for supporting pupils with AD/HD’ in March 2008 in conjunction with Mrs Pauline Latham, Centre Manager at LANC.

He chairs the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health special interest group on AD/HD and related neurodevelopmental difficulties – the George Still Forum.  Over the years he has been very involved in encouraging appropriate, evidence-based professional awareness and in lecturing and writing widely on the conditions.  He places great emphasis on the importance of understanding the reality of the challenges faced by children with AD/HD and their families and in working towards more appropriate service provision for children’s mental health and educational services.

Mr Nigel Humphrey BA(Hons) MSc – Clinical Psychologist

Mr Nigel Humphrey trained in South Africa and Zimbabwe and operated his own clinical practice with specialism in AD/HD before joining the Centre in 2002.  Mr Humphrey collates the service for adolescents and adults with AD/HD, a clinic which has grown exponentially in the last few years.  He is also involved in the assessment and management of children with neurodevelopmental difficulties and also undertakes counselling and cognitive evaluations.

Zara Harris  MSc Dip COT SROT OTR

Mrs Harris is an Occupational Therapist and works part-time at the Centre to assess children and adults with AD/HD and associated developmental coordination difficulties.   She has a Masters degree in AD/HD and workplace and relationship difficulties, which was based on data obtained from the LANC.  She originally trained and worked in the UK at the Maudsley Hospital and now works for a special needs school in Washington, USA, spending time at the LANC every three months.  She has particular expertise in developmental coordination disorder (dyspraxia) and in people with executive function difficulties, i.e. problems with planning, organisation and time management.

Pauline Latham

Mrs Latham is the Deputy Director/Centre Manager at the LANC.  She has been a member of staff since inception and instrumental in the formation of the LANC.  She has a wide role in the day-to-day management and development of the Centre, in its being kept at the forefront of public and professional awareness, in provision of information about the clinic, and participating in policy and procedure writing.  She has personal experience of AD/HD and related conditions and has also written widely on AD/HD, particularly surrounding issues related to the impact on the family and lectures to a range of audiences in health, education and social care on the subject to facilitate a wider understanding of these issues and the need for appropriate support for sufferers and their families.

Brigit Solomon, BSc(Hons), RGN  ADHD Specialist Nurse Practitioner.

She has many years of experience in the management of people with ADHD and related issues and in supporting families affected.  Since 1996 she has been a Trustee of ADDISS, the national ADHD charity, and was involved in the development of the Global ADHD Network.  Brigit also works – and has done so for many years – as a nurse practitioner in General Practice.

She takes a lead role in the adolescent and adult clinic at the Learning Assessment and Neurocare Centre.

Hannah Wachnianin, BSc (Hons), Assistant Psychologist. 

Hannah is also trained as an ADHD Coach, in neurolinguistic programming and neurofeedback and undertakes QEEGs at the Learning Assessment and Neurocare Centre.  She is also involved in the assessments and on-going support of younger children with ADHD and related issues and their families.

Neil Rutterford, Chartered Psychologist and Director of PeakMind.  

Neil undertakes QEEGs at the Learning Assessment and Neurocare Centre, as well as neurofeedback.  He is Senior Lecturer at a university in Cambridge.  Neil was previously Head of Centre for Psychology and Counselling at Swansea Metropolitan University.  He completed a PhD in neuropsychology at Swansea University in 2005 after working in clinical settings with a number of neuro-rehabilitation providers.  Neil is trained and accredited in EEG Spectrum neurofeedback.  He has since practised this treatment approach as a director of PeakMind.  Neil has published a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented his work at international and national conferences.  He also supervises several research students and projects which include the efficacy of neurofeedback in a traumatic brain injury population;  efficacy of neurofeedback in enhancing executive function performance; combining biofeedback and cognitive-behavioural therapy techniques in treating Sudanese people with social phobia; investigating the inhibition of responses after ventro-medial brain damage.  As well as being a Chartered Psychologist, Neil is a member of the Division of Teachers and Researchers in Psychology of the British Psychological Society and an associate member of the British Neuropsychological Society, International Neuropsychological Society and Society of Applied Neuroscience.