Meet the team

Graham is a highly experienced health professional who has worked within the healthcare sector for over two decades, in the NHS, private and voluntary sectors as well as in the pharmaceutical industry. Graham’s career has encompassed providing hands-on patient care through to delivering medical directorship. He is committed to providing the highest standard of care for patients. Graham is a qualified psychiatric nurse and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.

Emma Donoghue is a Registered Nurse with over 20 years experience in a variety of care settings. Emma has worked within the NHS and independent sectors holding both clinical and business management roles including community assessment and treatment services, walk-in centres, substance misuse, young adults with physical disabilities, elderly care and secure health facilities.

Emma has contributed to the development of various national policy and standards documents, is trained in incident management and serious and untoward incident investigation. Emma is committed to providing safe, high quality patient centred care.

Dr Oscar D’Agnone is a consultant psychiatrist with over 30 years of experience working in mental health and addictions. Until December 2018 he was an Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, Institute of Brain Behaviour and Mental Health, University of Manchester. Dr D’Agnone is an author of many papers and books on addictions, and is published widely in the professional medical press. Dr D’Agnone is the medical director of The OAD Clinic, London, specialising in treating mental health problems, alcohol, addictions and opioid analgesic dependence.

Dr Sunil Arora is a consultant in pain medicine with extensive experience in managing patients with acute, chronic and cancer-related pain. Dr Arora is able to treat patients suffering from various types of short term and persistent pain, including the knee, back, neck, elbow and shoulder pain, as well as abdominal pain and complex regional pain syndrome. Dr Arora is committed to providing excellent care to his patients using a holistic, patient-centred approach to ensure the best management plan.

Ben is a senior consultant psychiatrist, with degrees from University College London and Oxford University. He specialises in the developmental trajectory from adult and childhood trauma into adult mental disorders and addictions. He also has experience working with PTSD and in the field of telemedicine. He is currently involved in psychopharmacology research at Bristol University and Imperial College London and is widely published in this field.

Dr Elizabeth Iveson is a consultant stroke and neurorehabilitation physician, with a back-ground in elderly care and general medicine. She has over 20 years’ experience of work-ing with complex patients with long term conditions and multiple symptoms, including pain, anxiety, fatigue and spasticity.

Dr Iveson is passionate about providing comprehensive, thoughtful and skilled care to her patients. She is a founding committee member of the Medical Cannabis Clinicians Society and is active in the education of professionals regarding medical cannabis, helping develop national guidelines and speaking at many meetings and conferences.

Ayman is a Consultant in Pain Medicine. He is also a founding member of the Faculty of Pain at the Royal College of Anaesthetists and honorary secretary of the British Pain Society and was a member of the working group that composed the recent guidelines for the use of medical cannabis in the management of chronic pain.

Ayman is currently an international coordinator in multicentre research trials assessing new pain medications. In 2016, Ayman won a national award from Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, for his research in pain medicine. Ayman has a particular interest in the use of cannabinoids for the treatment of chronic pain and is currently working with an industry partner to design trials for the use of cannabinoids for the treatment of chronic pain.