Dominic Beer1956-2013

Dominic was born in Reading on the 4th November 1956 to Susanna and Michael Beer

He attended Leighton Park School in Reading from 1969-1974

He then attended Oxford University from 1975-1978 studying Modern History and Modern Languages

Early Life and Schooling

Early Medical Career

• He began his medical training in 1978 at Guy’s Hospital in London and qualified in 1984

• He completed his post-doctoral research fellowship for the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine

• He became a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1989

• Between 1990-1994 he worked as Senior Registrar at Guy’s Hospital/South East Thames

Medical Career

• Since 1994 he worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist for a 15 bed Challenging Behaviour Ward

• He had an active teaching career at Guy’s, King’s, St Thomas’ University of London and was visiting lecturer at other universities

• He was head of Research and Development and Clinic Audit for Oxleas

• He has published over 70 research papers and was assistant editor of the History of Psychiatry

• He was also co-author of the Psychiatric Intensive Care textbook

• In 2004 he was made fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatry

NAPICU

• Along with a core group Dominic was at the forefront of the revolution in psychiatric intensive care

• It was the poor conditions on many locked wards which prompted the first nationwide survey of PICUs by Dominic Beer, Stephen Pereira and Carol Paton

• It was found that the majority did not have a policy on the use of rapid tranquillisations

• This survey prompted the idea for the formation of a National PICU Group which involved into NAPICU

• The first national conference was held in 1996 on psychiatric intensive care in Kent

• NAPICU was formed the same year

NAPICU

• Dominic was one of the key founding members of NAPICU

• Dominic served as the first chairman from 1997-2001

• He was instrumental in gaining the support of various regions in the UK

• His particular skill was in establishing systematic procedures and operational matters

• He was an active contributor to the NELMHT PICU Research Group that created the DOH National Minimal Standards

• He has helped better the lives of many patients with severe mental illness in his own practice and together with NAPICU colleagues on a much wider scale

Publications

• Beer, MD (1992) Introduction to, and translation of, E. Kraepelin (1920) “The Manifestations of Insanity”. History of Psychiatry 12 504-529

• Beer MD (1995) History of the psychiatric profession and its institutions. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 8, 346-350

• Beer MD, Paton C, Pereira S (1997) Hot beds of general psychiatry: A national survey of psychiatric intensive care units. Psych Bulletin 21, 142-144

Publications

• Pereira S, Beer MD and Paton C (1999) Good practice issues in psychiatric intensive care units. Findings from a national survey. Psych Bulletin, 23, 397-400

• Pereira S, Beer D, Paton C (1999) When all else fails. A locally devised structured decision process for enforcing Clozapine therapy. Psych Bulletin, 23, 654-656

Publications

• Beer MD, Pereira SM and Paton C (2000) eds. Book Psychiatric Intensive Care London: Greenwich Medical Media

• Beer MD, Pereira SM and Paton C (2000). Psychiatric Intensive Care – Development and Definition (chapter 1) in: Psychiatric Intensive Care London: Greenwich Medical Media

• Beer MD, Pereira SM and Paton C (2000). Management of Acutely Disturbed Behaviour (chapter 2) in Psychiatric Intensive Care London: Greenwich Medical Media

• Pereira SM, Beer MD, Paton C (2000). Good practice issues in Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (chapter 17) in Psychiatric Intensive Care London: Greenwich Medical Media

Publications

1st Edition Published 2001 & 2nd Edition Published 2008

Hobbies and Interests

Hobbies and Interests

Dominic was a keen sportsman: captaining hockey, football and 1st XI cricket for two seasons

Hobbies and Interests

Cricket

Hobbies and Interests

Hobbies and Interests

Surfing

Hobbies and Interests

Skiing

The Olympics

Hobbies and Interests

Hobbies and Interests

Painting

Dominic Beer 1956-2013