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Ewa Okon-Rocha

Consultant Adult Psychiatrist

About

Dr Okon-Rocha is an experienced consultant general adult psychiatrist with a background in rehabilitation and liaison psychiatry. She has wide-ranging experience in managing a broad range of general adult psychiatric disorders. She currently holds the post of consultant general adult psychiatrist on an acute admission psychiatric unit, and is a visiting consultant at Priory Hospital Hayes Grove. She is also a consultant liaison psychiatrist in two liaison clinics, namely the Limb Reconstruction Orthopaedic and Chronic Facial Pain Clinic at King’s College Hospital/South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

She is on the General Medical Council (GMC) specialist register and performs honorary work for the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych).

Position at Priory

Consultant visiting psychiatrist - since February 2022

Training

  • Senior Specialist Registrar - Guy’s SpR Higher Specialist Training Scheme (2006-2010; Adult Psychiatry, Liaison Psychiatry, Rehabilitation Psychiatry)
  • Senior Hours Officer - Guy's King's St Thomas's SHO Training Scheme (2004-2001; Adult Psychiatry, Old Age Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Forensic Psychiatry, CAMHS, Learning Disability )
  • House Officer - Wyszyński General Hospital, Lublin, Poland (1995-1996; in Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Anaesthesiology).

Research Interests

  • Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry, London Division of Psychological Medicine, May 2009 – Dec 2009
  • Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry, London Division of Psychological Medicine, Jul 2006 – Mar 2008;

Languages

  • Polish

Links to clinical articles/research papers:

  • Genetic Analysis of Clozapine Metabolism in a Patient With Subtherapeutic Clozapine Plasma Concentrations- The Importance of CYP3A5, Case Report. Ewa Okon-Rocha, Luis Ramudo-Cela, David Taylor. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Volume 42, Number 6, December 2022. 
  • “Screening of Adult ADHD in Acute Inpatient Wards: a Quality Improvement Project”. V. Parlatini, R. Moroni, R. Rao, S. Suleman, E. Okon-Rocha – 
    e-poster presentation, 26th European Congress of Psychiatry (EPA 2018), Nice, France 3-6 March 2018. 
  • Keval SV Shah, Ewa Okon-Rocha, Kathleen Fan. “Patients with Psychiatric Disorders. What the General Dental Practitioner Needs to Know.” Primary Dental Journal, Vol. 6, NO 3, Autumn 2017.
  • Benjamin Spencer, Gareth Wilson, Ewa Okon-Rocha, Gareth Owen, Charlotte Wilson Jones. “Capacity in Vacuo: An Audit of Decision-Making Capacity Assessments By a Liaison Psychiatry Service”, BJ Psych Bulletin, February 2017. 
  • Price A., Rayner L., Okoń-Rocha E., Higginson I. and Matthew Hotopf. Antidepressants for the Treatment of Depression in Neurological Disorders 
    A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials. 
    Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry; 2011; 82(8), p.914. 
  • Okoń-Rocha E., Idowu O., Littlejohn S. Improving Lives: Pharmacy Clinic. 
    The Royal College of Psychiatrists. London Division Newsletter. Issue13. June 2010 
  • Cupitt C., Wofson P., Okoń-Rocha E., Masterson D., Popelyuk D. Developing recovery-orientated practice. Clinical Psychology Forum, 203, 24-28. Nov 2009 
  • Okoń-Rocha E. and Santhouse A. 10 things all GPs and hospital doctors should know about psychiatry. MEDICINE 2008; 36: 505-506. 
  • Xeniditis K., Pickard M., Oikonomou E., Paschos D., Barrett N., E. Okoń-Rocha and Nick Bouras. Audit of admissions to the Weston Unit and Adult Mental Health Wards. Learning Disabilities, Estia Centre, 2006.

Qualifications

  • Current-Specialist Register of GMC and accredited as Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry, Rehabilitation Psychiatry and Liaison Psychiatry 

  • Oct 2024 - Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrist (FRCPsych) 

  • Mar 2011 - CCT (Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training) in General Adult Psychiatry with endorsements in Rehabilitation Psychiatry and Liaison Psychiatry 

  • May 2005- MRCPsych, (Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists), Approved under Section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act 

  • May 2004 - Master of Science in Mental Health Studies, MSC with distinction, King’s College London (General Psychiatry, Psychodynamic, CBT modules) 

  • Jan 2000 - PLAB exam (Professional and Linguistic and Assessment Board) General Medical Council, London, UK 

  • Sept 1995 - MD (equivalent of MB BS) Medical University of Lublin, Poland (inc 6 months in Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherland)