The Team

Dr Gavin Philipson is a Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist in NHS Lothian’s Community Perinatal Mental Health Team and joined the team in September 2023. He originally trained and worked as a General Practitioner before finding his interest lay in mental health and retrained in psychiatry. Prior to moving to Lothian in October 2022 he worked in NHS Fife as a consultant psychiatrist for 14 years. He has always had an interest in perinatal mental health throughout his career as a GP and psychiatrist, but it was working closely with maternity services as a liaison psychiatrist in Fife that his interest grew. He was instrumental in the development of NHS Fife’s Community Perinatal Mental Health Team prior to moving to Lothian to work full time in perinatal mental health. Gavin is passionate in providing person centred care and improving the outcomes for mothers and infants.

Marie is a Senior Educator for Perinatal & Infant Mental Health at NHS Education for Scotland, and a Team Leader for Health Visiting and School Nursing in NHS Grampian.

She joined our team in July 2023 to continue the work ensuring that infant mental health and development is kept in mind, and that appropriate interventions are offered early to promote and support the improvement of parent – infant relationships.

Marie is passionate that prevention and early intervention provides the best outcome for families, and by working together to tackle the wider issues of poverty and inequalities we can provide valuable person-centred and whole-family care.

Sarah joined NSD in 2022 after spending six years in the Scottish Patient Safety Programme within Healthcare Improvement Scotland where she was Programme Manager for Acute Care. During this time, Sarah worked on numerous quality improvement collaboratives and projects aiming to improve outcomes and experiences for people across Scotland. This includes deteriorating patient, pressure ulcers and falls reduction workstreams, as well as the design and implementation of the Essentials of Safe Care. Prior to this, Sarah worked in health improvement at NHS Fife to support initiatives such as Maternal and Infant Nutrition, Smoking Cessation and Child Healthy Weight.

Anna joined NSD as the Programme Support Officer for the Perinatal Mental Health Network Scotland in December 2023. Prior to this role, she worked as a Data Analyst for NHS National Services Scotland and also worked previously with the Scottish Government Social Security Scotland Research Team as a Business and Data Management Intern. She has over 20 years Office administration experience and have worked in the NHS for over 10years both in England and Scotland. She has also worked in Adult Mental Health as a Team Secretary for the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust for almost 5years. She has various work experience also in Banking and Finance, Hospitality and Charity organisations.