Dr Giovanni Giaroli MD FRANZCP MSc PGDipCAT

Dr Giovanni Giaroli is the founder and Medical Director of The Giaroli Centre and is a Consultant Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist (medical doctor) specialising in ADHD and Autism across the lifespan from childhood to adulthood, plus other mental health conditions. He also holds the title of Associate Professor (Adj) from the Department of Psychiatry at Monash University, Melbourne.

In 2014 Dr Giaroli founded The Giaroli Centre due to the lack of services offered to children and young adults in the NHS, which fuelled his frustration to ensure patients and parents receive better services. His diligence towards our patients and passion enabled our centre to expand our neurodevelopmental focus, reflecting Dr Giaroli’s personal and professional values. Before he founded The Giaroli Centre, Dr Giaroli worked with several of our team’s psychiatrists (medical doctors) during his previous career in the NHS as a Substantive Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist.

Our centre is continuing to grow and develop to ensure that the needs of our patients are met.

After graduating with Honours in Medicine and Surgery in 2001 he specialised in general adult psychiatry at the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre at the University of Verona in 2005. He then obtained his child and adolescent psychiatry qualification at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia and he is a fellow of the The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP).

After moving to the UK in the 2000s he was employed by the NHS as a Substantive Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, where he worked with Dr Federico Campos our Deputy Medical Director in the NHS.

Dr Giaroli’s deep expertise has lead him to practice as a visiting consultant for various adolescent and adult units (outpatient and inpatient) at the prestigious The Priory Hospital in both North London and Roehampton, and the Nightingale Hospital, London.

He was an Honorary Psychotherapist for 4 years at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London and obtained his Diploma in Cognitive Analytic Therapy in 2011.

In 2012 Dr Giaroli became an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and a panel member of the core psychiatry recruitment, London Deanery. In 2009 he also became a module leader and lecturer of pharmacotherapy at the Institute of Psychiatry Kings College London (IoPPN).

He is also a corresponding member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and has published in many international journals on psychopharmacology in children and adults and has chaired and presented at many international conferences on ADHD, Autism and other mental health conditions.

Dr Giaroli collaborates in our centre’s multidisciplinary setting which delivers the ADOS-2 (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule) and ADI-R (Autism Diagnostic Interview Revised)  or 3Di (Developmental, Dimensional & Diagnostic Interview) as pioneered by the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, for formal diagnoses of Autism where required.