Dr Emily Finch
Dr Finch is a Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley and Clinical Director, Addictions Clinical Academic Group (CAG). She is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Addictions Executive, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) and the working group revising the DH guidelines on the management of substance misuse.
From 2004 to 2007 Emily was the Clinical Team Leader at the NTA where she took a lead in the clinical aspects of national drug policy and in liaising between the NTA and professionals working in the field; she was also part of the secretariat for the 2007 Drug Misuse and Dependence: Guidelines on Clinical Management. She is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Addictions Executive. She is a member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) and on the working group revising the DH guidelines on the management of substance misuse.
She is a tutor, lecturer and examiner on the MSc in Addiction studies and is an experienced expert witness in family and criminal cases. Her research interests include the outcome of treatment for opiate users and alcohol users, parents who use drugs and alcohol and dual diagnosis. Emily is a Trustee of Alcohol concern and Chaired of the NICE quality standards group for substance misuse in 2012.