Dr Julius Bourke

 Professional experience

• More than 20 years of experience
• Consultant Psychiatrist, Nightingale Hospital, London (present)
• Senior Clinical Lecturer in Neurophysiology and Clinical Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London (present)
• Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, Recognition Health, London
• Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, East London NHS Foundation Trust
• Specialist Registrar, The Maudsley Hospital, Community Psychiatry
• Specialist Registrar, The Maudsley Hospital & Kings College Hospital, Neuropsychiatry
• Specialist Registrar, The Maudsley Hospital & Kings College Hospital, Liaison Psychiatry
• Specialist Registrar, The Maudsley Hospital, General Adult Psychiatry
• Clinical Lead for ECT, Department of Medical Psychiatry, The Princess Grace Hospital.

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 Sub-specialties

• Depression
• Anxiety (including PTSD and OCD)
• Stress
• Chronic fatigue and chronic pain syndromes
• Neuropsychiatric disorders
• Occupational health (psychiatry)

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 Teaching posts

• Clinical Senior Lecturer in Neurophysiology and Clinical Psychiatry, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London (present)
• Clinical Lecturer in Neurophysiology and Clinical Psychiatry, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London

 Education

• Grant awarded: The characterisation of pain phenotypes in CFS – Barts Charity. 2012
• Distinction awarded: Certificate in Learning and Teaching, QMUL. 2016
• Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry 1996-2001
• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) 2001
• Member of The Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych) 2006

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 Publications and conferences

• TEXTBOOKS:
• Bourke, J, Castle, M, Cameron, A.D. ‘Crash Course: Psychiatry’, 3rd Edition, Mosby (Elsevier), London, July 2008
• TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS:
• Bourke, J, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Management Issues, In: Clinical Challenges in the Biopsychosocial Interface. Update on Psychosomatics for the 21st Century. Adv Psychosom Med. Eds: Balon R, Wise TN. Basel, Karger, 2015, vol 34, pp 78–91 (DOI: 10.1159/000369087)
• Bourke, J, Jackson, G, Libby, G, The Neuropsychiatric aspects of vestibular disorders’, in Scott Brown's Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery, Eds: Bamiou, D-E, Saeed, S. 8th Edition, CRC Press, In Press
• Bourke, J, White, P, 'Psychological Medicine', in Clinical Medicine, Eds: Kumar, P, Clark, M, 8th Edition, 2013, Saunders (Elsevier). 9th Edition recently submitted.
• Bourke, J, ‘Psychiatry’, in: Daniels, R, ‘nMRCGP Practice Papers: Applied Knowledge Test’, 2nd Edition, PasTest, Cheshire, August 2008
• PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:
• Bourke, J, Lyons, G, Wodehouse, T, Constantinou, E, Antoniades, M, Howard, J, White, Langford, RM, PD, Rabiner, EA, Wall, MB. Opioid & dopamine transmission in chronic pain and health are diametrically opposed: A phMRI study, European Neuropsychopharmacology, 2015; 25 (S2): S184-5
• Bourke, J, Wall, MB, phMRI: methodological considerations for an under-utilized resource, Frontiers in Brain Imaging Analysis, 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2015.00167
• Bourke, J, Langford, RM, and White, PD, The common link between functional somatic syndromes may be central sensitisation. J Psychosom Res, 2015. 78(3): 228-36.
• Postoperative Delirium. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2014; 38:65-78. Kazmierski, J, Banys, A, Latek, J., Bourke, J, Jaszewski, R. Raised IL-2 and TNF-alpha
• Kazmierski, J, Banys, A, Latek, J, Bourke, J, Jaszewski, R, Sobow, T, Kloszewska, I. Mild Cognitive Impairment with Associated Inflammatory and Cortisol Alterations as Independent Risk Factor for Postoperative Delirium. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2014; 38:65-78.
• Kazmierski, J, Banys, A, Latek, J., Bourke, J, Jaszewski, R. Raised IL-2 and TNF-alpha concentrations are associated with postoperative delirium in patients undergoing coronary-artery bypass graft surgery. Int Psychogeriatr, 2013: 1-11.
• Bourke, J, Johnson, A, Chalder, T, Sharpe, M, White, P, Pain in chronic fatigue syndrome; response to rehabilitative treatments in the PACE trial, Psychological Medicine, 2013; 23: 1-8
• Goodwin, L, Bourke, J, Forbes, H, Hotopf, M, Hull, L, Nijjar, R, Jones, N, Rona, RJ, Wessely, Fear, NT, Diarrhoea and vomiting (D&V) whilst on deployment in Iraq and its association with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) – Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Published online: 01 May 2013; DOI 10.1007/s00127-013-0699-6.
• Kazmierski, J, Banys, A, Latek, J, Bourke, J, Jaszewski, R, Cortisol levels and neuropsychiatric diagnosis as markers of postoperative delirium, Critical Care, 2013; 17:R38
• Bourke, J, Soldan, J, Silk, DBA, Aziz, Q, Libby, GW, ‘Idiopathic’ intestinal failure – the importance of identifying and treating primary psychopathology. Neurogastroenterol Motil, 2012, 24: 242-251
• Lydall, GJ, Bourke, J, Rationalising Medical Careers?, The Psychiatrist, July 2009, , 33: 309-312
• Bourke, J, Wessely, S, Confidentiality, British Medical Journal, Apr 2008; 336: 888 – 891
• Bourke, J, Turner, B, Neuropathica Diabolica, Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 2008;14(4)
• Bourke, J, Sylvester, R, Sharma, P, ‘Ethnic variations in the management of patients with acute stroke’, Postgrad Med J, 2006. 82 (963): 13-15
• PEER-REVIEWED ABSTRACTS:
• Bourke, J, Lyons, G, Wodehouse, T, Constantinou, E, Antoniades, M, Howard, J, White, Langford, RM, PD, Rabiner, EA, Wall, MB. Opioid & dopamine transmission in chronic pain and health are diametrically opposed: A phMRI study, Annual Meeting of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Amsterdam 2015
• T Wodehouse, L Casey, K Poply, V Anjana-Reddy, J Bourke, D Pyne, H Tahir., K Ullrich, V Mehta, A pilot study investigating whether Quantitative Sensory testing alters after Pregabalin in patients with Fibromyalgia, European Pain Federation (EFIC) Annual Congress, Vienna, 2015
• L. Demetriou, M.B. Wall, E. Constantinou, M. Antoniades, J. Howard, P.D.White, E.A. Rabiner, J. Bourke. The Brain in Pain Study: A Cognitive Battery to Control for phMRI Investigation of Pain Responses, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago 2015
• Bourke, J, Lyons, G, Wodehouse, T, Constantinou, E, Antoniades, M, Howard, J, White, PD, Rabiner, EA, Wall, MB, Use of a cognitive battery to control for phMRI investigation of pain responses, Annual Meeting of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping, Hawaii, OHBM, 2015
• Bourke, J, Lyons, G, Wodehouse, T, Constantinou, E, Antoniades, M, Howard, J, White, Langford, RM, PD, Rabiner, EA, Wall, MB. Opioid & dopamine transmission in chronic pain and health are diametrically opposed: A phMRI study, Annual Meeting of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping, Hawaii, OHBM, 2015
• Bourke, J, Lyons, G, Wodehouse, T, Constantinou, E, Antoniades, M, Howard, J, White, PD, Rabiner, EA, Wall, MB. Opioid and dopamine neurotransmission in chronic pain and health are diametrically opposed: A pharmaco-fMRI pilot study. 5th International Conference on Neuropathic Pain. Nice, France, IASP, 2015
• Bourke, J, Reed, LJ, White, PD, Dissociable Cortical and Ventral Striatal Responses to Painful Somatosensory Stimulation Measured using Functional MRI Imaging. 19th Annual Meeting of The Organisation of Human Brain Mapping, Seattle, USA, June 2013.
• Kazmierski, J, Banys, A, Latek, J, Bourke, J, Jaszewski, R, Cortisol levels and neuropsychiatric diagnosis as markers of postoperative delirium, 21st European Congress of Psyciatry, April 2013
• Bourke, J., Soldan, J., Silk, D.B.A., Aziz Q., Libby, G.W. '“Idiopathic” gastrointestinal failure – the importance of identifying and treating primary psychiatric causes', Neurogastroenterol motil, 2010, 2, supplement 1 , 23-90, pg 76 (263)
• Bourke, J, Ashkan, K, Samuel, M, et al, ‘The development of a standardised assessment tool for neuropsychiatric comorbidity in DBS patients’, Movement Disorders, 2009, 24: supp 1
• Costello A.R., Khamees H. A, Moriarty J., Bourke J., et al,. ‘A prospective series of neuropsychological outcomes after deep brain stimulation for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease’ Movement Disorders, 2009, 24: supp 1
• Tait M., Samuel M., Bourke J., Costello A., Hulse N., Moriarty J., Selway R., Ashkan , K. ‘Outcome of pallidal stimulation in primary and secondary axial dystonia’ Movement Disorders, 2009, 24: supp1
• Bourke, J, Ashkan, K, et al ‘Neuropsychiatric morbidity in a cohort of Parkinson’s Disease Patients assessed for deep brain stimulation: a prospective study’, Movement Disorders, 2009, 24: supp 1
• Bourke, J, Ashkan, K, Samuel, M, et al ‘Hypersexuality in Parkinson’s Disease: a contraindication to DBS?’, 15th Quadrennial Meeting of the World Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Toronto May 2009, Abstract Book
• Tait M., Samuel M., Bourke J., et al. ‘Outcome of pallidal stimulation in primary and secondary axial dystonia’ 15th Quadrennial Meeting of the World Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Toronto May 2009, Abstract Book
• Bourke, J, Ashkan, K, Samuel, M, et al. ‘The development of a standardised assessment tool for neuropsychiatric comorbidity in DBS patients’, 15th Quadrennial Meeting of the World Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Toronto May 2009, Abstract Book
• Bourke, J, Ashkan, K, Samuel, M, et al. ‘Neuropsychiatric morbidity in a cohort of Parkinson’s Disease Patients assessed for deep brain stimulation: a prospective study’, 15th Quadrennial Meeting of the World Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, May 2009, Abstract Book
• Bourke, J, Ashkan, K, Samuel, M, et al. ‘Neuropsychiatric Comorbidity in DBS Patients: Towards a Standardised Postsurgical Assessment’, Movement Disorders, 2008; 23 (S1): s282
• Bourke, J, Samuel, M, Costello, A, et al. ‘Decisions regarding deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinsons disease (PD) when hypersexuality co-exists’, Movement Disorders, 2008; 23 (S1): s112

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 Prizes and awards

• Scholarship to The European School of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2011
• Scholarship to The Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies, 2011
• Morris Markowe Prize for public education in psychiatry 2007 (Royal College of Psychiatrists)
• St. Clements Prize 2005/6
• Accident and Emergency Department audit prize, 2003
• The Eating Disorders Association National Essay Prize, 1999:

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 Professional membership

• Royal College of Psychiatrists
• British Neuropsychiatry Association
• British Association of Psychopharmacology
• European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
• European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine
• British Pain Society
• International Association for the Study of Pain
• International Brain Injury Association
• International Society for Sports Psychiatry
• British Neuroscience Association
• Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
• Organisation of Human Brain Mapping

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