OCD Ireland: Who We Are

OCD Ireland is a national organisation for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and the related disorders of Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) and Trichotillomania.

Structure of OCD Ireland:

• Steering Committee

  This is the executive committee of OCD Ireland. This is a group of volunteers who meet several times a year to review and discuss and make decisions about the organisation.

• Professional Advisors

  Our advisory panel consists of voluntary Mental Health Professionals:

  Dr. Jim Lucey MD, MrcPsych, PhD, Consultant Psychiatrist, Director of the Anxiety Disorders programme, St Patrick's Hospital, Dublin.

  Ms. Leslie Shoemaker, BA, MSc Counselling Psychology, Counselling Psychologist.

• Medical Advisor

  Dr. Jim Lucey is a psychiatrist with a special interest in obsessive compulsive disorders. He qualified in medicine in 1983 and trained at the Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College, based at St Patrick's Hospital, Dublin, where he took his MD in neuroendocrine studies of patients with OCD. Dr Lucey undertook higher professional training at the Maudsley Hospital, and was a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow with Professor Isaac Marks and Professor Rob Kerwin working on functional neuroimaging of OCD at the Institute of Psychiatry, London University.

  He was awarded his PhD for this research while a Senior Lecturer in St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Since returning to Ireland in 1999 Dr Lucey has been Director of the Anxiety Disorders programme at St Patrick's Hospital where he is a consultant. He continues to concentrate his interest on the diagnosis and management of OCD.

• Affiliated Partners

  Mr Sinclair Hilton, Psychotherapist,
  OCDNÍ, Northern Ireland Support Group.