Dr Sally Cubbin
Qualifications
MB ChB MRCPsych MSc DipCBT
GMC number: 4009027
Practising since: 1993
Specialties
General Psychiatry
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About
Dr Sally Cubbin (MBChB, MRCPsych, MSc, DipCBT) is a Consultant Psychiatrist who has specialist clinical expertise in adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), both in terms of its diagnosis and medical management.
She is a member of the UKAAN (UK Adult ADHD Network) executive board and also sits on their training committee. Her clinical interests are in the assessment of ADHD in adults and using pharmacological as well as psychological approaches to reducing symptoms. She holds a Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy from the University of Oxford. She runs UKAAN workshops on the pharmacological treatment of ADHD for health care professionals and on ADHD in the Perinatal period for the Royal College of Psychiatrists as part of their Masterclass programme for Perinatal consultants. She has written various book chapters on ADHD.
She graduated from the University of Bristol and underwent specialist training in Oxford. From 2008 to 2012, she worked at the National Adult ADHD Service at the Maudsley Hospital in London. For almost ten years, she provided the NHS ADHD service to Hampshire and, latterly, Southampton City. She has also worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist in an NHS community mental health team and spent two years as a neuropsychiatry in-patient consultant at the National Brain Injury Service in Northampton.
Contact
PA email : help@adhdclinic.co.uk
Special interests
Adult ADHD/ADD
Personal interests
Canoeing, sailing, hiking, and cycling.
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Research
Dr Cubbin has been involved in a trial testing the ability of a computer game to help diagnose ADHD - Eye Vergence Responses During an Attention Task in Adults With ADHD and Clinical Controls. This was published in the Journal of Attention
Disorders in 2020.
She is passionate about improving ADHD treatment for adults. She has participated in the development of consensus statements with other health care professionals on ‘Treatment of ADHD in women’, and ‘ADHD in the UK: A failure of healthcare provision’.
Sally has published two guides to adult ADHD for GPs in 2020 and 2014. In 2020 this was published in the British Medical Journal. In 2014 her education piece was published in Clinical Focus Primary Care (ADHD: A lifespan disorder often unrecognised or misdiagnosed. Cubbin S and Jeffs J. Clinical Focus Primary Care.2014 8(2): 78-85). She has written a book chapter on ADHD in adults with autism. This book (A Clinician’s Guide to Mental Health Conditions in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Assessment and Interventions. Jessica Kingsley Publishers) is written for health care professionals treating patients suffering autistic spectrum disorders.
She has also written two chapters for the book ‘Understanding ADHD in Girls and Women’ published in April 2021 also by Jessica Kingsley. (https://uk.jkp.com/products/understanding-adhd-in-girls-and-women). Dr Sally Cubbin is also contributing to updating and rewriting a number of chapters for a planned new edition of the UKAAN (UK Adult ADHD network) manual for clinicians ‘Handbook for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults’.
In November 2020, Dr Sally Cubbin featured in the Cosmopolitan article 'Why are so many women only diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood?'
Memberships
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
Declaration
Dr Sally Cubbin does not hold a share or financial interest in this hospital, another Nuffield Health hospital or the company.
Dr Sally Cubbin does not have a share or financial interest in equipment used at this hospital or another Nuffield Health hospital.
Dr Sally Cubbin does not hold any paid advisory role(s) at this hospital or on behalf of Nuffield Health.