Consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist Brookside Adolescent Unit, Goodmayes, Essex, and honorary senior lecturer St Bartholomew's and Royal London Medical College (b Cairo 1948; q Cairo 1972; MRCPsych, MSc, FRCPsych), died from acute heart failure on 12 September 2004.
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After general psychiatric training Ali's deep and abiding interest in transcultural psychiatry took him to the East End of London. His first consultant appointment was to St Charles' Youth Treatment Centre, a national facility run by the Department of Health. He worked with adolescents who had been subjected to dreadful violence and who in turn had committed severe offences. He provided paediatric liaison to Old Church Hospital and King George Hospital in Redbridge. He worked at the Brookside Adolescent Unit from 1994 until his death. Ali was erudite, philosophically sceptical, and immersed in a liberal humanist tradition. He leaves a wife, Maureen, and two children.
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