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
Former 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 Ewan Forrest
Consultant gastroenterologist, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow.
Professor Peter Brunt
Former consultant physician/gastroenterologist and Clinical Professor of Medicine, Aberdeen. Currently Chairman of the Medical Council on Alcohol.
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).
Cameron Paul
Senior addiction nurse at the acute general hospitals in Glasgow dealing with patients admitted with alcohol and drug issues. Working in addictions nursing for 11 years of which the last 5 have been in his present post. Representing the Royal College of Nursing.
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
Gerard O’Neill
Project Officer
Petrina Macnaughton
Project Officer