About
Dr Rehman is a general psychiatrist with specialist registration in UK since 2003. He has vast experience in treating personality disorders, depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders, first episode psychosis, somatoform disorders, and psychiatric sequelae of neurological disorders like Huntington’s disease and post brain injury behavioural changes.
Training
Dr Rehman graduated from army Medical College Rawalpindi in January 1988 and initially served as a regimental medical officer with Northern Light Infantry before completing his postgraduate training in anaesthesiology at Armed Forces Institute Rawalpindi. He retrained in psychiatry completing his post graduate training at The Institute of Psychiatry and the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, Research and Substance Misuse Rawalpindi General Hospital in 1998. He then worked as a consultant psychiatrist and assistant professor of Psychiatry Rawalpindi Medical College before taking up a substantive consultant post at South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust in 2003.
Dr Rehman was awarded the coveted Burki Gold Medal from College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan in 1998 and Pakistan Psychiatric Society Gold Medal for outstanding psychiatrist of the year in 2000. Dr Rehman was an adviser to the Federal Ministry of Health Pakistan in Mental Health and the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, and was involved in drafting the first mental health act in Pakistan in an attempt to replace outdated Lunacy Act 1912 from British Raj.
In 2003, Dr Rehman started as a substantive consultant psychiatrist with SLaM NHS Foundation Trust, working in the assessment and brief treatment team accepting referrals from GPs. He quickly developed a teaching programme to assist GPs, inviting them to visit community mental health teams and also going to GP practices to enhance patient experience. In 2006, he moved to Powell Ward in a sector-based model looking after complex patients in the community and also managing them as inpatients. In 2009, when clinical academic groups were formed, Dr Rehman took up a management role to manage all acute inpatient services provided by SLaM, consisting of 18 acute inpatient units and 4 psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs) across 4 hospitals sites, Lambeth Hospital, Maudsley Hospital, University Hospital Lewisham and Bethlem Royal Hospital. He designed and implemented a uniform acute inpatient care model to enhance patient experience and deliver consistent care, wherever the patient was admitted. Dr Rehman was key in involving clinicians in bed management, a model which has been replicated in various trusts.
In his role as associate clinical director for Lewisham, he delivered the community transformation plan, liaising with external stakeholders, including clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). He was awarded four clinical excellence awards by 2016, for his services to enhance patient experience and service transformations.
Dr Rehman is an accredited trainer in psychiatry and is educational supervisor and clinical supervisor for multiple foundation, core and higher trainees at any given time. He teaches and supervises medical students from Kings College London.
Languages
- English
- Urdu
- Hindi
- Punjabi