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Dr Omer Moghraby MBBS BSc (Hons) MRCPsych

Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

Dr Omer Moghraby is a highly experienced Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist (medical doctor) whom is also a lead clinician at the prestigious South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM), a Tier 3 NHS CAMHS service where he leads the neurodevelopmental service (specialising in ADHD and Autism) and crisis team.

Whilst he treats children with a range of conditions, he is particularly specialised in neurodevelopmental conditions (such as ADHD and Autism) and their associated behaviours.

Dr Moghraby has also worked alongside his fellow team members Dr Nicoletta Adamo, Dr Pretesh Shah and Dr Giulia Spada both here at The Giaroli Centre, as well as in his NHS role.

Dr Moghraby is actively involved in post graduate and undergraduate education and teaching at the Maudsley Hospital King’s College London. He has also worked at other world leading training centres in London such as the Bethlem Royal Hospital, and Great Ormond Street Hospital. He also has a wealth of experience in medico-legal cases, particularly family court hearings, custody/divorce, and related assessments.

Dr Moghraby collaborates in our centre’s multidisciplinary setting which delivers the ADOS-2 (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule) and ADI-R (Autism Diagnostic Interview Revised)  or 3Di (Developmental, Dimensional & Diagnostic Interview) as pioneered by the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, for formal diagnoses of Autism where required.

He has a friendly disposition and relaxed manner whilst also being greatly empathetic to the social, schooling and peer pressures that young people face.

Dr Moghraby’s General Medical Council (GMC) registration is 6028615 and he is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) and is Section 12 approved under the Mental Health Act.

Dr Omer Moghraby
  • Selected Publications
    • [Book Editor & co-author 2 chapters]: “Digital Mental Health: From Theory to Practice”; Editors Rob Waller, Omer S. Moghraby, Mark Lovell, Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2023. ISBN 1009059866, 9781009059862

     

    • “Self-Harm in Children and Adolescents Who Presented at Emergency Units During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Retrospective Cohort Study”, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Volume 62 (9), 2023, Pages 998-1009, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2022.11.016. Ben Hoi-Ching Wong, et al – including Omer S. Moghraby

     

    • “Moving from development to implementation of digital innovations within the NHS: myHealthE, a remote monitoring system for tracking patient outcomes in child and adolescent mental health services”. DIGITAL HEALTH. 2023;9. doi:10.1177/20552076231211551. Morris AC, Ibrahim Z, Moghraby OS, et al.

     

    • “Assessing the feasibility of a web-based outcome measurement system in child and adolescent mental health services – myHealthE a randomised controlled feasibility pilot study.” Child Adolescent Mental Health, 28: 128-147. https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12571 Morris, A.C., Ibrahim, Z., Heslin, M., Moghraby, O.S., Stringaris, A., Grant, I.M., Zalewski, L., Pritchard, M., Stewart, R., Hotopf, M., Pickles, A., Dobson, R.J.B., Simonoff, E. and Downs, J. (2023)

     

    • “Pandemic-Related Emergency Psychiatric Presentations for Self-Harm of Children and Adolescents in 10 Countries (PREP-Kids): A Retrospective International Cohort Study” – Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2021 Mar 7:1–13 (Mar 2021) D Ourgrin et al. including O S Moghraby (27 authors)

     

    • “Sociodemographic factors associated with routine outcome monitoring: a historical cohort study of 28,382 young people accessing [CAMHS] Child Adolescent Mental Health” 26(1):56-64 (Feb 2021) AC Morris, A Macdonald, O Moghraby, A Stringaris, R D Hayes, E Simonoff, T Ford, J M Downs – Won Child and Adolescent Mental Health Journal Best Paper award 2022

     

    • “Social media and young people’s health” Paediatrics and Child Health, Volume 30, Issue 11, 404 – 406 (Nov 2020) T Chester, S Ponnuthurai, D Roland, S Reynolds, O S. Moghraby

     

    • “Evaluation of a diagnostic ADHD pathway in a community child mental health service in South London” Mental Health Review Journal, Vol. 25 No. 1, pp. 1-19. (Mar 2020) Barnes, G.L., Wretham, A.E., Sedgwick, R., Boon, G., Cheesman, K., Moghraby, O.