Dr Hema Ananth

Qualifications: MB BS, BSc, MRCPsych, FRCPsych, Master's in Health Education

Dr Hema Ananth is a Consultant Psychiatrist. She studied medicine at University College London and also holds a BSc from King's College London. She completed her psychiatric training on the Royal Free training scheme, and is dual accredited in general adult psychiatry and old age psychiatry with an endorsement in liaison psychiatry. She has been on the GMC Specialist Register for both since 2004, and is registered with the GMC as Dr Hema Ananthanarayanan.

She was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2012. Her NHS work is in Hertfordshire, where she has led the local memory service, working closely with the Alzheimer's Society. She cares for adults of all ages with dementia, bipolar disorder, depression and psychotic illnesses, and has a special interest in memory problems and dementia. She also carries out medico-legal work, including assessments of mental capacity.

She became a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1998. She teaches junior doctors, holds a Master's in Health Education and sits on the Royal College of Psychiatrists panel that sets the MRCPsych exam paper. She is a member of the College's Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry.

At Private Medical Clinic, Dr Ananth sees patients by video from any of our clinics. Her face-to-face appointments are mainly at our London, Cambridge and Oxford clinics.