Primary contact address

Abraham Cowley Unit,
Ashford and St Peters Hospital,
Chertsey,
KT16 0AE,
United Kingdom

Primary telephone number

01932 453000

Specialities

  • Substance Misuse

Areas covered

  • East Elmbridge
  • Runnymede
  • West Elmbridge
  • Woking

Teams

North West iAccess team

Biography

Dr Kouimtsidis, MBBS, MSc, FRCPsych, PhD is a part time consultant in addiction psychiatry at Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust since 2012. He is Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer with Imperial College London (since 2016) and St Andrew’s University, Scotland (since 2018). He was Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London (2008-2011) and Honorary Senior Lecturer at St. George's, University of London (2003-2008). He has received the SABP Gold CARE Leader Award (2016), the HSJ Award for Clinical Research Impact with the Research and Development Department at Surrey and Borders and the "Chair's Award of the Best Employee" (2009). With his clinical teams won awards in 2004, 2006 and 2008. His doctorate (King's College, London, 2009) was on psychological processes in addiction. He has received research grants exceeding 1 million pounds, published more than 60 peer reviewed papers as well books and book chapters.

Since February 2019 Dr Kouimtsidis is the National Drugs Coordinator for Greece.