Biography
Dr Louise Sell is a consultant psychiatrist at Pennine Care, Greater Manchester. She has an extensive background working as an Addiction Psychiatrist and Service Director in Greater Manchester and Lancashire. She has undertaken research on the neural mechanisms underlying craving for opioids and has researched and written about aspects of service provision, particularly injectable opioid maintenance. She has taught on the treatment of opioid dependence on the British Association of Psychopharmacology certificate.
Louise graduated in medicine from Cambridge and London Universities and trained in psychiatry at Oxford and the Maudsley before moving to the Northwest. In addition to her clinical career, she has worked as an Executive Medical Director and is currently a Non-Executive Director at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. She is a trustee of Early Break, a charity providing substance misuse and mental health treatment for young people. Louise has contributed to Department of Health and Social Care / Public Health England guidelines on substance misuse and is currently Chair of the expert group writing UK Clinical guidelines for the treatment of alcohol use disorders. She has held several roles with the Royal College of Psychiatrists and is currently leading work to increase the availability of training in addiction psychiatry. Her most recent clinical role was in Bury Integrated Pain Service, working with a team of physiotherapists, mental health nurses, psychologists, and anaesthetists to transform the assessment and management of persistent pain.
Declaration of interests
Louise is employed by Stockport NHS as a non-executive director, and by Penninecare NHS as a Consultant Psychiatrist. Louise is a trustee for Early Break, a General Medical Council (GMC) advisor, an NHS Responsible Officer appraiser, chair for an expert group in the Department for Health and Social Care and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (DHSC/OHID), and a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists chairing the addiction specialty advisory committee.
