Emmert is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Addiction Psychiatry at the National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) and a Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist at the South London and the Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust.

He graduated with distinctions in Medicine (BMBCh) from the University of Oxford, and Epidemiology (MSc) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He holds a PhD in Addiction Sciences from KCL, his thesis exploring how specialist drug and alcohol treatment provision in England impacts on hospitalisation and mortality.

He is currently an NIHR Advanced Fellow and a Commonwealth Fund Senior Harkness Fellow and holds membership at both the Royal College of Physicians and Psychiatrists.

During the COVID-19 outbreak he founded the Homeless Hotel Drug and Alcohol Service (HDAS) the first pan-London service to provide drug, alcohol and tobacco support to the population of people experiencing rough sleeping who were temporarily housed in emergency accommodation across the capital.

Research Interests

Emmert has a strong interest in substance misuse, sexual and reproductive health and the overlap of physical and mental health conditions. His NIHR Advanced fellowship focuses on developing methods to harness the potential of nationally collected administrative data to reduce harm due to drug and alcohol use.

Research Groups

• Alcohol Research Group
• Drugs Research Group

Expertise & Public Engagement

Emmert is an honorary analyst at the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry (BJPsych), and a trustee of the Faculty of Sexual Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) and Alcohol Change UK.

Emmert sits on the scientific advisory board and is the clinical co-lead for the National Programme on Substance Use Mortality (NPSUM). https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/the-national-programme-on-substance-abuse-deaths