Dr Sanjith Kamath, Executive Medical Director

Dr Sanjith Kamath has been a Consultant Psychiatrist since 2007, working in both the NHS and the private sector before joining St Andrew's Healthcare in 2012. He has an interest in service development and is also a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. He also has a MBA.

Sanjith became Clinical Director for the Women’s Mental Health Pathway in 2015 and has been involved in developing new services including establishing our Women’s Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). He was heavily involved in implementing outcomes driven, value-based healthcare across the Charity, leading to his appointment as Executive Medical Director in 2018.

Dr Ash Roychowdhury, Chief Quality Officer

Ash is a Consultant General Adult and Forensic Psychiatrist, Chief Quality Officer, Chair of the Data Subgroup of the national Adult Secure Clinical Reference Group and Clinical member the East Midlands provider collaborative clinical reference group (IMPACT). He is also in the final year of an MBA at Henley Business School.

He has more than 18 years experience working in secure care, across all levels of adult security with also extensive experience in adolescent secure services. He has been in several clinical and medical management leadership positions including Clinical Director and Associate Medical Director. His key interests lie in the clinical governance and quality improvement of secure services, in particular reducing restrictive practices, best practice in risk assessment and management and use of technology to improve quality and reduce waste.

Dr Gayathri Burrah, Consultant Psychiatrist

Dr Gayathri Burrah has worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist in the NHS in Older Adult Psychiatry with an interest in teaching and training. She was the postgraduate tutor before joining St Andrew’s in 2017.

Since joining St Andrew’s she has predominantly worked on the female Acquired Brain Injury ward for more than five years. Adding to her background in dementia and older adult psychiatry, she has developed an interest in Neuropsychiatry and recently completed her Masters in Neuropsychiatry. She is also the Medical Undergraduate Lead for the Cambridge medical students.

Dr Shahzad Alikhan, Consultant Psychiatrist

Shahzad specialises in complex rehabilitation within general, forensic and neuropsychiatric settings. He studied Medicine and Natural Sciences (Experimental Psychology) at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University and King’s College London and then trained in General Adult and Rehabilitation Psychiatry on the Maudsley Hospital rotation in South London. He has subsequently worked as a consultant in forensic, neuropsychiatry and high-dependency rehabilitation settings.

He is an Executive Committee Member of the Faculty of Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry and helped develop the Higher Training Curriculum for Rehabilitation Psychiatry with the GMC. His interests include effects of traumatic brain injury, outcome measurement and cost-effectiveness in rehabilitation services, and a diversity of political and legal aspects of the treatment of people using mental health services.

He holds a Masters’ degree in Mental Health Law and volunteered for 3 years as a therapist and medico-legal expert working with refugees and other people seeking asylum and humanitarian protection.

Dr Donna Arya, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist

Dr Donna Arya is a consultant forensic psychiatrist and specialist in Deaf mental health. She is one of the consultants for the Medium Secure Deaf Service at St Andrew’s in Northampton. She has a level 3 British Sign Language qualification and has worked as a Deaf communication support worker. She believes passionately in improving access for the Deaf community. She undertook her specialist training in West London and Broadmoor Hospital.

Donna has a BSc (Hons) in medical education and is the Medical Undergraduate Lead for the University of Buckingham medical students. She is also Senior Clinical Teacher at Imperial College, London. She also have extensive experience in post graduate teaching and is an experienced CASC tutor.

Dr Alexander Hamilton, Clinical Director 

Dr Alexander Hamilton is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist for Deaf people. Although hearing, coming from a Deaf family he grew up using British Sign Language (BSL) and with an understanding of Deaf culture. He undertook his specialist training in Dorset, Hampshire, Broadmoor Hospital, and at the National High Secure Deaf Service at Rampton Hospital, before becoming the Consultant for the Medium Secure Deaf Service at St Andrew’s in Northampton in 2014. He is currently also the Clinical Director for the Medium Secure services at St Andrew’s.

In addition to his clinical work, Alex chairs the Deaf Mental Health Working Group for SignHealth, and advises NHS England on matters relating to Deaf adult mental health services.

Dr Ana Ilea, Deputy Medical Director

Dr Ana Ilea has been a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist since 2015. She joined the Charity in October 2017, and has a special interest in Forensic Psychiatry.

She is an affiliate Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. A former Clinical Director, she is now Deputy Medical Director for our Low Secure and CAMHS services.

Dr Muthu Natarajan, Deputy Medical Director

Former Clinical Director Dr Muthu Natarajan is now Deputy Medical Director for our Dementia, Huntington's Disease and Acquired Brain Injury division.

He has been with St Andrew's since 2010, specialising in forensic psychiatry for older adults and working closely with NHS commissioners to improve clinical services. Muthu has spoken at numerous conferences and written in mental healthcare journals.

Dr Anupama Iyer, Consultant Psychiatrist

Anupama has dual accreditation in Intellectual Disabilities and Child Psychiatry and over 15 years of experience of inpatient care at various levels of security from medium secure care to open units, both in the NHS and the independent sector, in adults and adolescents including experience of senior management roles.

She is currently working in the LDA division both as a Responsible Clinician and the Clinical Lead for the ASD Service. Anupama is also currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Intellectual Disabilities at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and serving as the Academic chair to the Faculty.

Dr Reuven Magnes, Consultant Psychiatrist

Dr Reuven Magnes has been a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists since 2003. He joined St Andrew's in 2020.

He has a CCT in Adult General Psychiatry with special interests in Eating Disorders, Intensive Care and improving Women’s access to Mental Healthcare.

Dr Ashley Rule, Consultant Psychiatrist

Dr Ashley Rule is a Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist working on Bayley ward, one of the Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) in Northampton. He joined St Andrew’s Healthcare in 2019 having previously worked as a Consultant in Oxford for 15 years. He has been a PICU consultant for over 12 years, and also worked for several years in a general adult CMHT, as a Prison Ireach Consultant, and on a trauma informed, blended women’s medium/low secure ward.

Dr Jane Radley, Consultant Psychiatrist 

Dr Jane Radley qualified in medicine from Leicester University. She trained as a GP before switching to psychiatry and specialising in working with people with intellectual disabilities and autistic people.

Jane worked as a Consultant in the NHS in Northumberland before joining St Andrew’s in 2008 to help develop one of the country’s first specialist secure units for adults with autism. She continues to work with adults with intellectual disabilities and autistic people in our secure and  rehabilitation services. She is committed to improving our services and helping people move on from hospital to successful lives in the community.

Dr Nadeem Mazi-Kotwal, Consultant Psychiatrist 

Dr Nadeem Mazi-Kotwal has worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist in the NHS taking on different leadership roles such as Coordinating Tutor, ECT lead and Associate Clinical Director before joining St Andrew's in 2017. He has an interest in Dementia and Huntington’s Disease and contributes as a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Huntington’s Disease Multi-disciplinary Clinic at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, for UCL Hospitals. He is the Managing Editor of the British Journal of Medical Practitioners.

Nadeem remains committed and involved in establishing clinical practice influenced by better patient outcomes, value based healthcare and continuous quality improvement.

Dr Sally Foster, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist

Dr Sally Foster has been a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist since 2004, working in the NHS before joining St Andrew's in 2017.  She has worked across secure units in Yorkshire, where she held posts of Clinical Director and Associate Medical Director.  She has had an interest in service development, leading on the development of a women's non-secure pilot unit in York, and collaboratively developing a number of prison mental health services across Yorkshire.

Since joining St Andrew's, Sally has worked predominantly on the male secure wards, and has a special interest in treatment resistant psychosis.  More latterly she has further developed her interest in Medical Education, and is the Medical Undergraduate Lead for the University of Buckingham medical students. She is also a CASC examiner for the Royal College of Psychiatrists and has recently completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Medical Education.

Dr Richard Burrows, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist

Dr Richard Burrows joined St Andrew's in August 2020, working full-time as a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist in the low secure autistic spectrum disorder service. Prior to working for the charity Richard worked as a doctor in the NHS for eight years. After completing his five year medical degree at the University of Leicester he remained there to work for two years as a foundation doctor. Dr Burrows then moved back to where he had grown up, Birmingham. Whilst there, he spent the next three years working in various psychiatry specialities before focussing on forensic psychiatry.

Richard is passionate about continual service improvement; working towards patients with ASD, who have found it difficult to progress, to be discharged to the community.