People

SHAAP is managed by an Executive Committee made up of nine health professionals with specialist knowledge of alcohol-related health problems. SHAAP’s work is also supported by a Project Director and Project Officer.

Executive Committee

Dr Bruce Ritson, Chair
Honarary Consultant Psychiatrist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Formerly Senior Lecturer Dept Psychiatry at Edinburgh University, Vice President Medical Council on Alcohol, Chair Addiction Faculty RCPsych and WHO Consultant. Author and editor of many books and articles concerning the prevention and treatment of alcohol problems.

Dr Alistair Beattie
Retired consultant gastroenterologist, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow. Author of papers on alcoholic liver disease. Currently chairman of Education Committee of Medical Council on Alcohol and member of the Executive Committee. Chairman of Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland.

Professor Peter Brunt
Retired consultant physician/gastroenterologist and Clinical Professor of Medicine, Aberdeen. Currently Chairman of Alcohol Focus Scotland and the Medical Council on Alcohol; a member of the Scottish Ministerial Advisory Committee on Alcohol Problems (SMACAP).

Dr Lesley Graham
Associate specialist in Public Health Medicine at the Information Services Division (ISD) of National Services Scotland. Previously programme principal for the ISD Substance Misuse Programme from 2002-2006, which included responsibility for the National Alcohol Information Resource. A member of the Scottish Ministerial Advisory Group on Alcohol Problems (SMACAP).

Kate Macaulay
Royal College of Nursing

Dr William Morrison
Consultant in Accident and Emergency Medicine, NHS Tayside.

Dr Peter Rice
Consultant psychiatrist, NHS Tayside Alcohol Problems Service and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Medical School, University of Dundee. Researched and published on health information and communication, on the counselling relationship in alcohol misuse treatment, as well as on more traditional medical topics such as cell changes in oral cancer. Involved in strategic issues both locally and nationally, in the planning and delivering of integrated, multi-agency care and treatment.

Dr Iain Smith
Consultant psychiatrist, Glasgow Addictions Service.

Dr Richard Watson
General Practitioner, Clinical lead of the RCGP Certificate Course in Substance Misuse in Scotland.



Staff
Dr Evelyn Gillan
Project Director


Petrina Macnaughton
Project Officer