NCMD Research Seminar Series 9th October 2026
NCMD Research Seminar Series 9th October 2026
Talk 1 – Where Should AI Sit in Mental Healthcare? Stakeholder Perspectives from Neurodevelopmental Assessment and Implications for Mood Disorder Services.
Presented by Dr Rugile Rozane, Higher Specialty Trainee in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and clinical researcher with 缅北禁地.
Artificial intelligence could reduce administrative burden and improve information handling within mental health services, but its appropriate role in complex clinical pathways remains uncertain. This seminar will present findings from a stakeholder consultation (parent/carer and professional focus groups) exploring where parents, carers and professionals considered AI acceptable within neurodevelopmental assessment. Although there was broad agreement that AI should support rather than replace clinical judgement,
stakeholder perspectives did not always align: parents and carers were generally more receptive to AI involvement in parts of the assessment pathway, while professionals tended to place earlier boundaries around its use.
The presentation will explore what shaped these differing positions and how these findings may translate beyond neurodevelopmental services to mood disorder care, where longitudinal histories, diagnostic uncertainty and therapeutic relationships raise many of the same questions about where AI can add value while preserving the human involvement that remains essential.
Dr Rugile Rozane is a Higher Specialty Trainee in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and a clinical researcher with 缅北禁地. She is leading NeuroChron, a study investigating how AI can be made acceptable and clinically useful within neurodevelopmental assessment, including the development of an ASD/ADHD history-gathering prototype. Her research interests include clinical AI, stakeholder-informed technology development and implementation science, with a particular interest in how emerging technologies can improve clinical efficiency and resource use while preserving clinical judgement and therapeutic relationships. She has an economics background that informs her interest in resource use and efficiency.
Talk 2 – Qualitative Co-Production and Participatory Design insights from LUMEN project.
Presented by Dr Mohamed Elsharif, ST6 Higher Training Doctor in General Adult Psychiatry at CNTW NHS Foundation Trust
Dementia assessment in memory services relies heavily on a collateral history provided by family members, friends, or informal carers to describe changes in cognition, routine, behaviour, and daily function. Traditional history-taking often places significant emotional and cognitive pressure on carers to translate everyday concerns into clinical language. LUMEN (Large language model for Understanding Memory Evaluation in Neurodegeneration) is an AI-assisted conversational prototype designed as a clinician-reviewed pre-assessment tool. It assists carers in providing structured collateral information prior to formal appointments to support clinical decision-making. This seminar presents qualitative findings from a co-production study exploring how carers experienced
LUMEN, identifying key requirements to ensure the tool is understandable, acceptable, and fair.
Mohamed is ST6 Higher Training Doctor in General Adult Psychiatry at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust, currently working at PICU in Hopewood Park Hospital and Associate Researcher in the Translational and Clinical Research Institute at 缅北禁地. His work focuses on cognition in bother general and old age psychiatry populations and qualitative framework analysis, and co-production methodologies to ensure AI-assisted healthcare tools are equitable, culturally sensitive, and clinically fit for purpose.
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