GMC Number: 4591601
Consultant Psychiatrist in Child, Adolescent & Adult Mental Health.
Dr Loh is dual accredited with specialist registrations in General Adult (since 1999), and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (2003). Besides working for Psychiatry-UK, he is also employed as an NHS Consultant Psychiatrist & Medical Lead in a community mental health (clients age 0-25 years old) team.
He has been a GMC-approved Trainer & Educational Supervisor for Core and Specialty trainee psychiatrists for more than 10 years. He previously worked as a Medical School senior lecturer in psychiatry abroad as well as a clinical research fellow in a local British neuroscience University department.
Dr Loh is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, trained by the UK Adult ADHD Network and is also a member of the International Association for the Study of Attachment (IASA). He had been trained and experienced in the screening and use of diagnostic instruments for Autism Spectrum Conditions (e.g. ADOS, 3Di, DISCO & ADI-R). He is registered with the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and is in good standing for CPD.
He favours a patient-centred, therapeutic, developmental and integrative approach to assessments, underpinned by the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment & Adaptation (DMM). His diagnostic assessments are based either on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD 10) or Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM 5) categories of psychiatric diagnoses. He uses a holistic assessment of the possible biological, psychological and social (ie biopsychosocial) contributing factors to the origin of current difficulties to formulate diagnoses.
Dr Loh is known to his clients and patients as non-judgemental, empathetic and compassionate. His clinical practice follows evidence-based approaches (including appropriate medications) which are compliant with NICE guidelines. He assists and collaboratively works with his patients in exploring their mental states and emotional difficulties which would usually lead to a better understanding of themselves. The individualised treatment care plan would therefore be working towards a sustained recovery and enhancement of the patient’s wellbeing as well as their personal development.
Besides English, Dr Loh is also fluent in the Malaysian & Chinese (Cantonese & Mandarin) languages, although his clinical reports are only available in English.
Dr Loh has a special interest in neurodevelopmental disorders especially the diagnostic assessments of Autism Spectrum Conditions/ Disorders (including High Functioning Autism) in adults.