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

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