GMC Number: 7547248
Dr Aastha Sharma is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the NHS. She has been working in the field of mental health since 2013.
She completed higher training in the sub-speciality of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with the East of England Deanery. After completion of training, she worked as a Substantive Consultant Psychiatrist for the CAMHS Community Eating Disorder team in Cambridge.
She currently works as a Consultant Psychiatrist for the Newcastle and Gateshead CYPS neurodevelopmental team with CNTW. She has a keen interest in neurodevelopmental disorders. She specialises in the assessment and management of ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, tic disorders, eating disorders, depression and anxiety disorders in children and young people.
Dr Sharma has trained in the systemic models of therapy. She has received consistent praise for her holistic young person-centered approach to care and collaborative working with families.
She has a keen interest in medical education and has been recently appointed as an Undergraduate Lead for the Newcastle Medical School. She is on the editorial board for BJPsych Advances and has published many articles in peer reviewed journals.
She was the principal investigator for a research project looking at neuroimaging findings for patients with early course schizophrenia.