Curriculum Vitae
Name
James Stephen BARRETT
Date of Birth
13th February 1966
Nationality
British
G.M.C. No.
3483303
Address
179 – 183 Fulham Palace Road
London
W6 8QZ
Phone + 44 (0)208 483 2801
Mobile 07977 439 299
e-mail: James.Barrett@wlmht.nhs.uk
Medical Education
University of London, Royal Free Hospital
Intercalated B.Sc. 1986-7
Qualified with Honours, June 1990
ICI and Hoescht prizes for Student elective
(Research within field of disorders of gender identity)
Ether Frances White memorial award
Qualifications
B.Sc.(Hons) Pharmacology 1987
M.B.,B.S.(Hons) 1990
M.R.C.Psych (preliminary) April 1993 (1st try)
M.R.C.Psych (membership) October 1994 (1st try)
Elected F.R.C.Psych 2009
M.Sc. Psychiatry November 1996
Approved for the purposes of section 12 of the Mental Health Act (1983)
Publication
Non-competitive antagonism of Calcium by Magnesium at the mouse neuromuscular
junction in vitro
J.S. Barrett, H.A. Pearson, D.W. Wray. Journal of Physiology 1988;401:91
Psychological and social function before and after phalloplasty
J. Barrett. International Journal of Transgenderism 1998;2:301-14
How to pay your way through Medical School
British Medical Journal 1990;300:817
Case report: sexual deviance successfully controlled with sertraline.
J.S. Barrett. British Journal of Clinical and Social Psychiatry 1994;9:8-9
Self-inflicted intracranial injury
B.K. Puri, A. El-Dosokey, J.S. Barrett. British Journal of Psychiatry 1994;164:841-2
Anisocoria Associated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
J.S. Barrett. British Medical Journal 1994;309:1620
Treating mental health problems in health care workers
British Medical Journal 1995;310,:1606
SSRI and sympathomimetic interaction
Barrett J, Meehan O, Fahy T. British Journal of Psychiatry 1996;168:253
The effects of high dose oestrogens on bone metabolism in male to female
transsexuals
J.S. Barrett, M. Thomas, D.H. Montgomery. Proceedings of the XVI International
Congress of Clinical Chemistry
Prescribing Thyroid Hormones
J. Barrett. Prescribers’ Journal 1996;36:176
Writing legal reports
J. Barrett. British Medical Journal 1998 (13th June Career Focus)
Disorders of Gender Identity
J Barrett. The Practitioner
2003;247:472-82
Commentary: Ethical pitfalls can be hard to avoid.
Duncan Forrest, James Barrett
BMJ 2004;329:399-400
Personal services or dangerous liaisons: should we help patients hire prostitutes ?
James Barrett
BMJ 2004;329:985
H Baig, S J Iqbal, R Green J Barrett & L J Seal. Complications of Hormonal Therapy in
Male to Female Transsexuals is Uncommon Endocrine Abstracts10:P643
S J Iqbal, H Baig R Green J Barrett & L J Seal. Endocrine Abnormalities are Common
In Transsexual Individuals Endocrine Abstracts10:P641 2006
Oral communication
C McHugh, E Karra, J Barrett, A Pananhloo, LJ Seal. Testosterone replacement in a
post gender reassignment surgery male to female transsexual. 2007 10th ESSM
Congress.
Lisbon P-01-009
I Malik, J Barrett, L Seal
Thiozolidones are useful in achieving female type fat distribution in male to female
transsexuals
Endocrine Abstracts 2009;19:174.
Editor 'Transsexualism and other disorders of gender identity: a practical guide to
management'
Published by Radcliffe Medical Publishing June 2007.
ISBN-13: 9781857757194
Author 'disorders of gender identity' chapter in:
The Cambridge Handbook of Effective Treatments in Psychiatry
Ed. Peter J. Tyrer & Kenneth R. Silk
Cambridge University Press
ISBN 97805218422780
Author 'disorders of gender identity' chapter in:
'The Mind: A User's Guide'
Ed. Raj Persaud
Transworld Publishers
UK. April 2007
ISBN 0593056353
Author 'The clinical risks associated with the diagnosis and management of disorders of
gender identity'
Clinical Risk 2009 Vol 15 No 4.
Author ‘Disorders of Gender Identity’ and ‘Near Death Experiences’ in the Oxford
Handbook of Clinical Medicine
Book reviewer for Health Exchange International
Book reviewer for Tropical Doctor
I was an Editorial Advisor for the British Medical Journal and although primarily
responsible for obituaries contributed regularly to a variety of sections of the Journal,
including fillers, Personal View and Minerva. I also attended BMJ seminars and
international meetings of the Vancouver group of Medical Editors. One of my 'Minerva'
submissions holds the record for the most provocative of ensuing correspondence.
Whilst a Surgical House Officer I wrote an audit project which received regional
approval and funding
Whilst a Psychiatric Senior House Officer I conducted an audit of the use of Section 117
of the Mental Health Act (1983) in the Home Counties
I was the ethics columnist for the journal 'Medical Review' and also reviewed books
pseudonomously for this and other journals. I have undertaken some freelance editorial
work for Channel 4 Television.
I advised the scriptwriters of 'Coronation Street' with regard to the progress of Hayley, a
transsexual character.
A 'Personal View' I wrote for the British Medical Journal received widespread press
attention, being described among other things as 'thrillingly poetical'. It is now being
made into a TV drama.
Presentations
I lectured on the drug treatment of transsexuals in November 1999 at the Royal College
of Physicians Sexual Disorders Conference.
I lectured on the practical management of a Gender Identity Clinic at Staffordshire
University in December 1999.
I lectured on Transsexualism for a mid 1999 specialist Speech and Language Therapy
conference dealing with the treatment of transsexual clients.
I have advised numerous state-owned and private corporate employers (Royal Mail,
British Airports Authority etc.) about the approaches they might adopt when faced with
an employee who wishes to change their gender role in the workplace.
I have advised the homelessness charity ‘Centrepoint Soho’ on disorders of gender
identity.
I presented papers concerning bone metabolism in oestrogen treated male to female
transsexuals and the psychological consequences of phalloplasty in female to male
transsexuals at the second European Network of Professionals on Transsexualism
conference and the 1994 Gender Trust conference.
I presented a paper concerning the long-term follow up of female to male transsexuals
at the 14th International symposium of operative andrology.
I presented a paper concerning the long-term follow-up of female to male transsexuals
undergoing phalloplasty at the 1997 Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria
Association Conference in Vancouver, Canada.
I presented a case of sexual deviance successfully controlled with sertraline at the 1994
British Society of Social and Clinical Psychiatrists Annual General Meeting in the
Channel Island of Guernsey.
I have lectured General Practitioners and Community Psychiatric Nurses on the subject
of treatment resistant depression in the elderly at Imperial College London.
I lecture biannually at New Scotland Yard on the subject of the England and Wales
Mental Health Act for the South East and London study course for the Diploma in
Medical Jurisprudence.
I lecture twice yearly at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen
Square on the role of liaison psychiatry in vestibular disorders.
I lecture yearly at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital on the role of liaison
psychiatry in a multidisciplinary approach to dizziness.
I lecture yearly at Southampton University medical school on the subject of Human
Rights. In addition I have spoken on Doctors’ roles in Human Rights issues to medical
students in Edinburgh, Birmingham, University College London, and at the 1997 BMA
medical student conference in Cardiff. I have spoken on the same topic to such diverse
non-medical groups as the students at a Catholic Seminary, at Birmingham University, a
Quaker boarding school, and also to a wide variety of Amnesty International local
groups.
I spoke to the Royal Free Hospital ethics group concerning mental illness in health care
workers in May 1995.
I was the United Kingdom delegate to the Second International Conference of Amnesty
International Medical Networks in May 1995.
I presented a Maudsley Journal Club on the effects of mental and physical illness on
politicians and other leaders.
Present Post
01/04/05 - Present
Consultant Psychiatrist and Lead Clinician
National Gender Identity Clinic
West London Mental Health NHS Trust
(Full-time post)
I am also a Psychiatrist working for the General Medical Council, charged with
assessing and supervising doctors under consideration by their Fitness to Practise
panel.
1/2/99 - 31/03/05
Consultant Psychiatrist
West London Mental Health NHS Trust
Four sessions liaison psychiatry
Six sessions in the Gender Identity Clinic
Previous Posts
Royal College of Psychiatrists Tutor,
West London Mental Health NHS Trust
2000-2005
13/2/98 - 20/1/99
Consultant Psychiatrist
Croydon Community Mental Health
Services
10/9/97 - 12/2/98
Senior Registrar to Dr. Jane Marshall
Alcohol Unit
Maudsley Hospital
3/9/96 - 9/9/97
Senior registrar to Professors Ron, Trimble and Dolan
Neuropsychiatry
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
13/7/96 - 2/9/96
Locum Consultant
Community Psychiatry
Camberwell.
1/9/95 - 12/7/96
Senior Registrar to Dr. Dinesh Bughra
Community Psychiatry
Nunhead.
1/4/95 - 31/8/95
Registrar to Dr Simon Wessley
Liaison Psychiatry
Kings College Hospital
1/10/94 - 1/3/95
Registrar to Dr. Gaius Davies
Sick Health Care Professionals Unit
Bethlem Royal Hospital
1/7/94 - 30/9/94
Registrar to Dr. Jennifer Bearn
In-patient drug rehabilitation service
Bethlem Royal hospital
1/4/94 - 30/6/94
Registrar to Dr. Michael Farrell
Community drug team
Maudsley hospital
1/10/93 - 31/3/94
Registrar to Dr. Fiona Subotsky
Child and Family Psychiatry
Kings College Hospital
3/4/93 - 30/9/93
SHO to Dr. Frank Holloway and Dr. Robert Kerwin
Intensive Care Unit
Maudsley Hospital
1/10/92 - 2/4/93
SHO to Dr. George Szmukler
Adult General Psychiatry
Bethlem Royal Hospital
1/2/92 - 30/9/92
SHO
Adult General Psychiatry
Charing Cross Hospital
1/8/91 - 31/1/92
SHO to Dr. Robin Pinto and Dr. Christopher Treves Brown
Adult General Psychiatry
Luton and Dunstable Hospital
1/5/91- 31/7/91
House Officer to Mr. Michael Pittam
Vascular Surgery
Luton and Dunstable Hospital
1/2/91 - 30/4/91
House Officer to Mr. Jonathan Towler
Urological Surgery
Luton and Dunstable Hospital
1/8/90 - 31/1/91
House Officer to Dr. Nicholas Finer
Medicine and Endocrinology
Luton and Dunstable Hospital
Administrative experience
Council Member for the British Medical Association 1996-1998
Member of the British Medical Journal Journal Committee. This Committee controlled
the British Medical Journal and the BMJ publishing group, and I was a non-executive
Director
BMA advisor for the sixth impression of the Department of Health Code of Practice for
the Mental Health Act (1983)
Trainee representative at Department of Psychiatry Committee Maudsley hospital
Student Representative at M.Sc. Committee, Institute of Psychiatry
Chairman of the Amnesty International United Kingdom Section Medical Network
Council Member for Amnesty International United Kingdom Section
Member of the Audit Committee at Luton and Dunstable hospital
BMA Place of Work Accredited Representative
Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists team making an approval inspections to
the North Devon and the Bristol training schemes.
Completed the Maudsley Management Course April 1997.
Teaching Experience
Regularly teaching for Medical Students attached to General Adult Psychiatry and
community psychiatry posts.
Regularly teaching for Medical Students attached to Child and Family Psychiatry and
community psychiatry posts.
Regular formal teaching sessions with final year Medical Students at Charing Cross
hospital, for which I have been awarded Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer status at the
Imperial College of Science and Medicine.
I am an examiner for the MRCPsych Part 1, a final MB examiner for the Imperial
College of Science and Medicine and have been an external final MB examiner for the
Medical faculty of the University of Kuwait.
Taught Nurses and Social Workers in each posting at the Maudsley hospital.
Taught Casualty Officers at Kings College hospital.
Presented lectures to local National Schizophrenia Fellowship groups on chronic mental
illness.
Guide at the Chelsea Physic Garden.
Special
Experience
Emergency Psychiatry in the emergency clinics at Charing Cross and Maudsley
hospitals
Forensic experience whilst working on the intensive care unit at the Maudsley hospital
Mental illness in other Doctors and Nurses, including the professional and ethical
complications associated with fitness to work and confidentiality issues, whilst working
on the Sick Health Care Professionals Unit at the Bethlem Royal Hospital
Trained in Witness Skills at Royal College seminar, May 1996.
Legal report experience as an independent psychiatrist acting under instruction from
Solicitors in Mental Health Review Tribunal appeals, and in assessing refugees and
asylum seekers, and to a lesser extent in non-refugee matters.
Trained in the use of the Amytal Interview
Trained in the use of 'SPSS' statistics, Microsoft 'Word', and most Internet access
software