Jan 2011 - current , Private Practice,

201 Wickham Tce, Brisbane

Psychiatrist

▪ Psychiatric care of patients in an outpatient setting

▪ Family law and medico legal matters
▪ 4 sessions per week

July 2010 - current, Private Practice,

Toowong Private Hospital

Psychiatrist

▪ Inpatient care

Jan 2009- 2013, Mental Health Review Tribunal Brisbane, Qld.

Psychiatric/Medical Member

▪ Experience in the application of the Mental Health Act with regard to patient’s under involuntary treatment orders and forensic orders.

▪ Experience in Forensic settings as well as general psychiatric settings both public and private.

▪ Working collaboratively with legal members and community members.

Jan 2007- 2014, Princess Alexandra Hospital Woolloongabba, Qld

Staff Psychiatrist

▪ Working in a Consultant capacity with clinical leadership of an integrated team including inpatient and community-based treatment.

▪ Extensive involvement in the teaching of registrars with responsibility for the written examination preparation course for Queensland trainees as well as locally based clinical exam preparation.

▪ Involvement in medical student teaching and examinations.

▪ Outreach to “The Healing Centre”, an indigenous organisation which provides assessment, treatment and support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members with mental health issues.

▪ Clinical academic title of senior lecturer awarded by University of Queensland.

Nov 2006-Jan 2007, Royal Melbourne Hospital Parkville, Vic.

Consultant Psychiatrist (Locum)

▪ Served as consultant psychiatrist on a locum capacity within a number of roles at Royal Melbourne Hospital including community and inpatient

Feb 2006-Nov 2006, Royal Melbourne Hospital Parkville, Vic.

Principal Psychiatric Registrar and Academic Fellow

▪ Principal registrar for the Inner West Mental Health Service which includes Royal Melbourne Hospital with responsibility for the smooth running of on-call arrangements, representing registrar needs within a number of internal committees and dealing with any problems within the registrar group.

▪ A senior registrar role on the Bleuler ward, John Cade Unit, with a supervisory role for junior registrars and medical officers.

▪ Clinical responsibility acting in a consultant role for an inpatient team of nine beds incorporating rehabilitation and homeless streams under supervision of the clinical director.

▪ Teaching role for junior registrars within service as well as medical officers on inpatient unit.

▪ Coordinating and teaching of local and North West Region trainees for OSCI component of RANZCP Clinical Exams.

▪ As Academic Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, responsible for the coordination of medical student teaching across the Northwest region of Melbourne including lecture program, tutorials and clinical placement across 6 hospitals for more than 100 students a year.

▪ Provide a number of lectures and tutorials for medical students including problem based learning and case presentations.

▪ Coordinate clinical exams on Royal Melbourne site for medical students as well as being involved as an examiner.

▪ Responsible for coordinating a weekly academic meeting of the Department of Psychiatry- “The Monday Colloquium” which boasts both local and international speakers.

▪ Local Hospital Co-ordinator for both OCI and OSCI component of the RANZCP clinical examinations.

Feb 2005-Feb 2006, Royal Melbourne Hospital Parkville, Vic.

Senior Psychiatric Registrar

▪ Registrar position in the Mobile Support and Treatment Team, an intensive outreach and rehabilitation model of care and the Community Care Unit, a long-term psychiatric rehabilitation facility

▪ Experience gained in the management of patients with chronic and severe psychiatric disability and complex needs.

▪ Experience also gained in the management of teams within a rehabilitation model with the running of clinical meetings and overall responsibility for both teams when the consultant was absent.

▪ Responsible for the supervision and management of junior medical officers within the team with a number being successfully recruited to commence psychiatric training.

▪ Some teaching responsibilities with medical students from the University of Melbourne with provision of lectures, tutorials and clinical viva examinations.

▪ Successful in clinical component of RANZCP examinations at first attempt.

▪ Continued accredited advanced training in generalist stream.

Jan 2004-Feb 2005 Royal Melbourne Hospital Parkville, Vic.

Psychiatric Registrar

▪ Accredited training in Neuropsychiatry.

▪ Experience gained in the inpatient assessment and management of a wide range of

neuropsychiatric disorders.

▪ Developed clinical skills in bedside cognitive assessment as well as understanding and integration of neuropsychological testing into complex psychiatric assessments.

▪ Responsible for referral process and bed coordination of 8 designated neuropsychiatric beds within a statewide service.

▪ Responsibility for supervision of junior medical officers.

▪ Passed RANZCP written examinations at first attempt with overall performance in

top 5% of cohort.

▪ Retrospective accreditation in advanced training in “generalist stream” approved by College

August 2003-Jan 2004, Royal Melbourne Hospital Parkville, Vic.

Psychiatric Registrar

▪ Accredited training in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at a major teaching hospital.

Feb 2003-August 2003, The Melbourne Clinic Richmond, Vic.

Psychiatric Registrar

▪ Registrar position in the “Professorial Unit”
▪ Experience gained in the private setting of general adult and psychiatry of old age.

July 2002-Jan 2003, Redlands Hospital

Psychiatric Registrar

▪ Rural and remote experience including servicing the Bay Islands

▪ Accredited training in acute integrated setting.

Jan 2002-July 2002, Royal Children’s Hospital Cleveland, Qld, Herston, Qld.

Psychiatric Registrar

▪ Accredited training in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

▪ Experience gained in acute inpatient treatment of young people in Child and Family

Therapy Unit (CFTU) and Consultation-Liaison at Royal Children’s Hospital

Jan 2001-Jan 2002, Logan Hospital Meadowbrook, Qld.

Psychiatric Registrar

▪ Accredited training in psychiatry in acute integrated setting.

▪ Queensland rotational psychiatry committee reports (Form C) – every report recorded “excellent”.

▪ Passed first-year examination first attempt.

July 2000-Jan 200, Logan Hospital Meadowbrook, Qld.

Principal House Officer

▪ Non-accredited training in Psychiatry in acute inpatient setting with experience also gained in emergency psychiatry.

▪ Responsibility for “Bed Co-ordination” of the inpatient unit.

Jan 2000-July 2000, Royal Brisbane Hospital Herston, Qld.

Junior House Office

▪ Terms completed in Psychiatry, Heart Transplant Medicine and Neurology

Jan 1999-Jan 2000, Royal Brisbane Hospital Herston, Qld.

Intern

▪ Terms completed in Psychiatry, General Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Emergency Medicine and Neurosurgery

General Practitioners

Please email your referral to Dr Daniel Varghese.If the matter is urgent please call us on 07 3839 5152.

Please email your referral to Dr Daniel Varghese.
If the matter is urgent please call us on 07 3839 5152.