PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & POSITIONS
Royal Australian & New Zealand
College of Psychiatrists (R.A.N.Z.C.P.)
Psychotherapy Faculty
Philosophy Special Interest Group
Evolutionary Psychiatry
Special Interest Group
Founding member from 2003
NSW Branch Committee, NSW Branch Office
Co-opted councillor 2008 - Portfolio: Private Practice - attendance at monthly
meetings
Chair of Private Practice Network (PPN) from
Sept 2008 : reports to General Council of RANZCP
NSW Medical Board
Australian Medical Association
(A.M.A.)
Includes subscribing to the A.M.A. Code of Ethics
Medical Benevolent Association of
NSW (M.B.A.)
Vice-President from Nov 2003
Councillor since Nov 1998
Webmaster since Dec 1998
NSW Doctors Mental Health
Implementation Committee
Council member from 1998
Author of Literature Review
Webmaster of Doctors Mental
Health Web site resource
MDA National
International Society for
Bipolar Disorders (I.S.B.D.)
Full member from 2003
Human
Behaviour & Evolution Society
Member
from 2001
The
International
Marcé Society
Member
from 2005
Perinatal
Psychiatry Interest Group (PIPSIG)
Member
& Communications Officer from 2005
International
Neuropsychiatry Association
Member from 2006
Central
Sydney Division of General Practitioners Mental Health and Drug & Alcohol
Advisory Committee
Member
representing private psychiatric health services since ?
PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
Evolutionary
Psychiatry
Perinatal
Psychiatry
Treatment
of mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders
in adolescents
Doctors'
Mental Health
Continuing
Professional Education for general practitioners, medical students and
registrars
Using
metaphors to engage and psychoeducate patients
Administrative
psychiatry
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
July 2007 -
Medical Director & Superintendent of St John of God
Health Care Burwood NSW
July 2005
-
Director of Training, St
John of God
Health Services Burwood,
NSW
Mar 2005
- Chairman of
Research & Practice Standards Committee, St
John of God
Health Services Burwood,
NSW
Jan 2005
- Convener
& Chair of Continuing
Medical Professional Dinner Seminar Series, St
John of God
Health Services Burwood,
NSW
Jan 2005
- June 2007
Medical Superintendent of St John of God
Health Services Burwood,
NSW
Jan 2005
- June 2007
Medical Director of St John of God
Health Services Burwood,
NSW
Dec 2003 -
Elected Vice President of The Medical
Benevolent Association of NSW, North Sydney, NSW
May 2003 - Jul 2005
Coordinator of medical student focused attachment to St John of God Hospital
& Medical Ctr, Burwood, from Faculty of Medicine, Sydney University,
Camperdown, NSW
April 2003
-
Elected Chairman of Medical Executive Committee & Medical
Advisory Committee, St John of God Hospital,
Burwood,
NSW
June 2002
- Sept 2003 Member
of organising committee & programme subcommittee for the 3rd National
Doctors' Health Conference 2003, North Sydney, NSW
April 2002 - Dec
2002 Member of Central Sydney Area Mental Health Service Early Intervention in
Psychosis Steering Committee, Rozelle Hospital, Central Sydney Area Health
Service, Rozelle, NSW
May 2001
- Member
of Medical Executive Committee (elected at April 2001 Medical
Advisory Committee), St John of God Hospital,
Burwood,
NSW
March 2001
-
Member
of Drug Committee, St John of God Hospital,
Burwood,
NSW
February 2001
-
Member of Peer Review Group (consistent with draft
Maintenance of Professional Standards Program [MOPS], R.A.N.Z.C.P.)
Jan 2000 - Dec 2002 Chairman
of Rozelle Hospital Medical Records Committee, Rozelle Hospital, Central
Sydney Area Health Service, Rozelle, NSW
Sept 1999 -
Visiting medical officer, St John of God Hospital
Burwood, 13
Grantham Street, Burwood, 2134. Tel: 9747-5611.
Sept 1999 -
Consultant psychiatrist, St
John of God Medical Centre, 3 Grantham Street, Burwood, New South Wales, 2134. Tel: 9747-6088. Fax:
9744-5879.
Aug 1999 - Jan 2003
Staff Specialist Psychiatrist, Acute Adult
Psychiatric Admissions Ward, The Rozelle
Hospital, Central Sydney Area Health Service
(C.S.A.H.S). Referrals from all Sydney psychiatric units and hospitals. Supervisor and
tutor for psychiatry trainees and medical students from Sydney University.
Attendance at monthly Peer Review and Medical Staff Council meetings.
August 1999 Election to
the Fellowship
of Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (R.A.N.Z.C.P)
July 1999 Completed
Part II R.A.N.Z.C.P Examinations
(first sitting), Perth, Western Australia
Dec 1998 -
Elected counsellor/director of Medical
Benevolent Association of NSW, North Sydney, NSW
Sept 1998
Member of interview panel selecting first year trainees for R.A.N.Z.C.P
accredited training, Rozelle, NSW
May 1998
Completed Part I R.A.N.Z.C.P Examinations
(first sitting), Sydney, NSW
Jan 98 - Feb 03
Council Officer, Australian Salaried Medical Officers
Federation (ASMOF), representing Staff Specialist Psychiatrists and
career medical officers, Sydney, NSW
Jan 98 - Aug 99
Senior Psychiatry Registrar, Acute Adult Psychiatric Admissions Ward, Rozelle Hospital,
C.S.A.H.S. Referrals from St George Hospital & Canterbury shire.
Supervisor: Dr Nicholas Di Ciaccio, F.R.A.N.Z.C.P.
Jul 97 Jan 98
Psychiatry Registrar, Psychogeriatric Services, Rozelle Hospital,
CSAHS. Catchment team for geriatric patients from the Canterbury shire. Tertiary
referrals to the Dementia Unit. Supervisor: Dr Robyn MacGregor, F.R.A.N.Z.C.P.
Jan 97 Jul 97 Psychiatry
Registrar, Canterbury Community Mental Health Centre, CSAHS. Supervisor: Dr Cathy
Thom, F.R.A.N.Z.C.P.
Jul 96 Jan 97
Psychiatry Registrar, Rivendell Adolescent Unit, CSAHS. Catchment
area: CSAHS. Tertiary referrals from NSW. OCD & Early Psychosis Intervention Programs.
Supervisors: Dr Chris Wever, FRANZCP and Professor Joseph Rey, F.R.A.N.Z.C.P.
Jan 96 - Jul 96
Psychiatry Registrar, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital,
CSAHS. General consultations, renal liaison & Pain Management Clinic.
Supervisor: Dr Mathew Large, F.R.A.N.Z.C.P.
Jul 95 - Jan 96
Forensic Psychiatry Registrar, Maudsley
& Bethlem Hospitals, London, United Kingdom. The Denis Hill Unit
(Bethlem Hospital, Kent) was a medium-secure regional forensic psychiatric ward.
Associated education program at the Institute
of Psychiatry London. Supervisor: Dr James MacKeith, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist.
The Orchard Lodge Resource
Centre was a secure adolescent remand centre in South
London. Supervisor: Dr Carol Sheldrick, Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist.
Jan 95 - Jul 95
Psychiatry Registrar, Psychogeriatrics, Rozelle Hospital, CSAHS. Supervisor: Associate-Professor
John Snowden, F.R.A.N.Z.C.P.
Jul 94 - Jan 95
Psychiatry Registrar, Acute Adult Psychiatric Admissions Ward, Missenden Psychiatric Unit,
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, CSAHS. At the time the MPU was a tertiary referral
centre for sensory impaired patients, eating disorders, mood disorders, and was a
Mother-Baby unit. Supervisor: Dr Kristen Kerr, F.R.A.N.Z.C.P.
Mar 94 - Jul 94
Psychiatry Registrar, Acute Adult Psychiatric Admissions Ward, Rozelle Hospital, Sydney. Referrals
from St George Hospital. Supervisor: Dr Jenny Bergen, F.R.A.N.Z.C.P.
Oct 93 - Jan 94
Resident Medical Officer, Lismore Base Hospital, Lismore, NSW. General
Medicine.
Jan 92 - Oct 93
Resident Medical Officer, Prince of Wales/ Prince Henry Hospitals, Sydney. Intensive
Care Unit, Renal Medicine, Neurosurgery, Emergency Medicine.
Jan 91 - Jan 92
Intern, The Sutherland Hospital, Sydney. General Medicine, Emergency Medicine, General
Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Orthopaedic surgery.
1991
Completed Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery (MB BS) : University
of New South Wales,
Sydney, NSW

ACADEMIC HISTORY
Jan 2009 -
Supervisor to Psychiatry Registrar (RANZCP-accredited placement at St John
of God Hospital Burwood)
Jan 2009
Teaching lecture to first year psychiatry trainees : Psychiatric
Emergencies - Management of Violence, Year 1 Introductory Workshop
Postgraduate Course in Psychiatry, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta,
NSW
Nov 2008
Examiner in RANZCP exemption examinations
Nov 2008
Convenor, half-day
seminar : Perinatal Psychiatry Seminar, St John of God Health Services, Burwood, NSW
(Sponsor: )
Nov 2008
Lecture to general practitioners : Chronic mi qty use of meds, Central
Sydney Divisions of General Practitioners QUMIMH,
Sydney
Nov 2008
Attendance at Medical Benevolent Association of NSW and SJOG Hospital
Burwood co-hosted workshop : Vicarious Traumatisation of Medical Practitioners
by Dr Robert Grant pHD, St John of God Hospital, Sydney
Oct 2008
Lecture to psychiatrists and career medical officers : Duloxetine and
Neuroplasticity, Concord (Sponsor: Boehringer-Ingelheim)
Oct 2008
Lecture to general practitioners : Pharmacological management of depression,
Central Sydney Divisions of General Practitioners, Sydney
Oct 2008
Lecture to psychiatry registrars : Psychotropic drugs in pregnancy and
lactation, Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta
Sept 2008
Moderator at Hypothetical Symposium : "Well, how depressed do I have to
be to be given medication?", Panel: Liz Almond, Jane Honikman, Atif Rahman,
Jonathan Rampono, Vijay Roach, Julia Seng, The International Marcé Society 2008
Conference, Manly, Sydney
Sept 2008
Attendance at The International Marcé Society 2008 Conference : Policy,
Planning and Effective Delivery of Perinatal Mental Health Care, Manly, Sydney
Aug 2008
Lectures to general practitioners : Sleeping Soundly - Considerations for
improving the safe use of hypnotic medication, Clinical Weekend Meeting,
Sydney (Sponsor: Sanofi-Aventis)
Aug 2008
Attendance at workshop : Complex PTSD and Complicated Trauma, by Robert
Grant and Prof Bryanne Barnett, St John of God Hospital Burwood, Sydney
Apr 2008
Lecture and workshop to obstetricians working with high-risk
pregnancies: Workplace Stress and Doctors' Mental
Health, Maternal Fetal Medicine Colloquium, Surfers Paradise, Qld
Nov 2007
Interviewed by Natasha Mitchell
"All in the Mind" science
show presenter ABC Radio National
(together with Dr Dan Wilson) regarding evolutionary psychiatry, Melbourne, Vic
[Transcript]
Nov 2007
Lecture to psychiatrists : A Usable Evolutionary Classification System
for Mental Disorders, World Psychiatric Association International Congress
2007, Melbourne, Vic
Nov 2007
Symposium Co-Chair with Dr Dan Wilson (Chair WPA Psychotherapy Section) : Evolutionary Psychiatry: Finding the Future in the Past, World
Psychiatric Association International Congress 2007, Melbourne, Vic
Nov 2007
Lecture to trainee psychiatrists (Postgraduate Course in Psychiatry 2007): Why
Evolutionary Psychiatry, The NSW
Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta, NSW
Oct 2007
Lecture to
mental health professionals : Terminology, Epidemiology and Risk Factors for
Doctors' Mental Health, 2007
International Doctors Health Conference, Sydney, NSW
Oct 2007
Facilitator of Hypothetical Workshop for general practitioners and
psychiatrists : A Family In Hell : Can Psychiatry Save Them?, St John of
God Health Care CPD Seminar, Burwood, NSW
Sept 2007
Open lecture to carers and families of patients with mental health problems : Psychotic
Disorders, St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
Sept 2007
Lecture to general practitioners and psychiatrists : Treating Psychotic
Disorders with Clozapine: A Shared Care Private Sector Model, St John of God
Health Care CPD Seminar, Burwood, NSW
Sept 2007
Lecture to pharmaceutical professionals : Management of Psychosis in the
Acute Setting, North Ryde, NSW
Aug 2007 Attendance at
training seminar/workshop : ECT Update, Northside Clinic, Sydney, NSW
July 2007
Lecture to general practitioners (Canterbury Division): Postnatal
Depression, Belmore, NSW
May 2007 OSCE
Examiner for R.A.N.Z.C.P. Fellowship Examinations, Sydney, NSW
Feb 2007
- Member of
Mental Health & Drug & Alcohol Advisory Committee, Central
Sydney Divisions of General Practice, Ashfield, NSW
Mar 2007
Lecture to general practitioners (Canterbury Division), Postnatal
Depression, Belmore, NSW
Feb 2007
Lecture to general practitioners (Auburn Division), Sydney, NSW
Jan 2007
Teaching lecture to first year psychiatry trainees : Psychiatric
Emergencies - Management of Violence, Year 1 Introductory Workshop
Postgraduate Course in Psychiatry, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta,
NSW
Nov 2006
Lecture to pharmacists (via Central Sydney Division of General Practioners) :
Postnatal
Depression, Haberfield, NSW
Nov 2006
Lecture to pharmaceutical professionals : Management of Psychosis in the
Acute Setting, North Ryde, NSW
Nov 2006
Co-convenor, half-day
seminar : Perinatal Psychiatry Updates, St John of God Health Services, Burwood, NSW
(Sponsor: Sanofi-Aventis)
Oct 2006 Attendance at conference : R.A.N.Z.C.P Section of Psychotherapy Bi-National
Conference, Sydney, NSW
Oct 2006
Convenor, half-day seminar : 2nd
Annual Evolutionary Psychiatry Seminar, St John of God Health Services, Burwood, NSW
(Sponsors: AstraZeneca, Wyeth)
Sept 2006 Attendance at conference :
6th International Congress of Neuropsychiatry, Darling Harbour, Sydney
May 2006
Co-convenor, half-day
seminar : Perinatal Psychiatry Updates, St John of God Health Services, Burwood, NSW
(Sponsor: Organon)
Jan 2006
Teaching lecture to first year psychiatry trainees : Psychiatric
Emergencies - Management of Violence, Year 1 Introductory Workshop
Postgraduate Course in Psychiatry, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta,
NSW
Nov 2005
Lecture to general practitioners : Managing Insomnia, Bondi, NSW
(Sponsor: Sanofi-Aventis)
Oct 2005
Co-convenor, half-day
seminar : Perinatal Psychiatry Updates, St John of God Health Services, Burwood, NSW
(Sponsor: Organon)
Oct 2005
Lecture to psychiatrists : Why Evolutionary
Psychiatry?, Leichhardt, NSW (Sponsors: AstraZeneca, Wyeth)
Oct 2005
Convenor, half-day seminar : Bringing the Why
back into Psychiatry, St John of God Health Services, Burwood, NSW
(Sponsors: AstraZeneca, Wyeth)
Oct 2005
Lecture at CPD, St John of God Health Services: "The
three things you
aught to know before marrying a doctor!", North Richmond
Sept 2005 Attendance at conference : R.A.N.Z.C.P Section of Psychotherapy Bi-National
Conference, Canberra, ACT
Sept 2005
Attendance
at conference : The Australasian Marcé Society, Melbourne, Vic
Jun 2005
Lecture to general practitioners and psychiatrists : Engaging
difficult-to-engage patients Using
metaphors, St John of God Health Services CME, Burwood, NSW
(Sponsor: Sanofi)
May 2005
Tour of The
Institute of Living, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Founded in 1822, The
Institute of Living was one of the first mental health centres in the United
States. As part of Hartford Hospital,
it is one of America's leading not-for-profit private mental health centers for
comprehensive patient care, research and education in the fields of behavioral,
psychiatric, and addiction disorders.
May 2005
Attendance
at conference : The American Psychiatric Association's Annual Meeting, Atlanta,
Georgia, USA
Apr 2005
Lecture to advanced trainees in psychiatry, geriatrics &
psychogeriatrics : Improving compliance: Using
metaphors to engage psychotic patients, Darling Harbour, NSW
(Sponsor: Janssen-Cilag)
Mar 2005 Lecture
to psychiatrists, general practitioners & managers: Why (as opposed to
how) we develop mental disorders, St John of
God Hospital CME, Burwood, NSW
Mar 2005
Attendance at lecture : Clinical Intervention in Post-partum Mood
Disorders (Prof Scott Stuart MD, University of Iowa), Annandale, NSW (Sponsor:
Wyeth Neuroscience)
Feb 2005
Lecture to psychiatrists : Evolutionary Psychiatry, South African
Association of Psychiatrists - Gauteng Division, Johannesburg, South Africa
Meeting with Dr Colin Menter, Paleo-anthopologist, Wits University, at Drimolen
fossil site, Sterkfontein (Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site), South
Africa
Jan 2005
Teaching lecture for first year psychiatry registrars : Management of
Violence, Year 1 Introductory Workshop
Postgraduate Course in Psychiatry, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta,
NSW
Dec 2004
Lecture to psychiatrists : Evolutionary Psychiatry, South Western
Area Health Service, Rozelle
Nov 2004
Guest speaker at AGM, Medical Benevolent Association of NSW: "What you
aught to know before you marry a doctor!", North Sydney
Oct 2004
Attendance at seminar : The Fourth Annual Australian & NZ Bipolar
Disorder Scientific Meeting, Barossa Valley, South Australia (Sponsor:
Sanofi-Synthelabo)
Oct 2004
Attendance at lecture : Insight & Schizophrenia (Prof Anthony
David), Sydney, NSW (Sponsor: AstraZeneca Neuroscience)
Oct 2004
Attendance at conference : R.A.N.Z.C.P Section of Psychotherapy Bi-National
Conference "Brain meets Mind in Today's Psychotherapy", Melbourne,
Victoria
Oct 2004
Lecture to general practitioners : Using
metaphors to engage difficult-to-engage patients, Strathfield, NSW
(Sponsor: Organon)
Sep 2004
Lecture to psychiatric
registrars : Using
metaphors to engage really difficult-to-engage patients, Woolloomooloo, NSW
(Sponsor: AstraZeneca)
Sep 2004
Attendance at clinical lectures meeting : Organon Expert Panel
Presentations: Management of treatment-resistant depression (Prof Isaac
Schweitzer); Depression: a neurodegenerative illness? (Assoc Prof Trevor Norman;
Antidepressants & their effect on human sexuality (Dr Jim Rodney),
Cockle Bay, Sydney, NSW
(Sponsor: Organon)
Aug 2004
Lecture to psychiatrists, psychiatric
registrars & community mental health case managers : Using
metaphors to engage & psychoeducate patients with mental disorders, Liverpool, NSW
May 2004
Lecture to general practitioners : Using
metaphors to engage & psychoeducate patients with mental disorders, Darling
Harbour, NSW (Sponsor: AstraZeneca)
May 2004
Submitted manuscript for journal publication as lead author: "Doctors'
mental health: a literature review of the pattern and causes of mental disorder
in doctors"
May 2004
Lecture to Yr 1 & 2 Medical Students : Everything
you wanted to know about anxiety and doctor's mental health but were too afraid to ask, Sydney
University, Camperdown, NSW
Apr 2004
Lecture to general practitioners : Everything
you wanted to know about PTSD but were too traumatised to ask, Parramatta,
NSW (Sponsor: Organon)
Mar 2004
Guest presenter & panel discussion (Chaired by Professor Gordon Parker;
also including Dr Gin Malhi) to psychiatrists and general practitioners :
Boxing Reboxetine: Edronax Explicated, Parramatta,
NSW (Sponsor: Pfizer Neuroscience)
Mar 2004
Lecture to general practitioners :
Edronax...The Adrenalin Rush (Noradrenergic Antidepressants), Drummoyne,
NSW (Sponsor: Pfizer)
Mar 2004
Lecture to psychiatrists and general practitioners : Doctors' Mental
Health - the Facts, St John of God Health Services Continuing Medical
Eduction Program 2004, Burwood,
NSW
Mar 2004
Attendance at conference : International Conference on Longevity, Sydney, NSW
Feb 2004
Attendance at conference : The International Society for Bipolar
Disorders Regional Group Conference 2004, Sydney, NSW
Jan 2004
Teaching lecture for first year psychiatry registrars : Management of
Psychiatric Emergencies & Aggression, Year 1 Introductory Workshop
Postgraduate Course in Psychiatry, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta,
NSW
Oct 2003
Lecture to medical practitioners &
pharmacists: Anxiety Disorders : Canterbury Division of General Practice,
Canterbury Hospital, Campsie, NSW
Sept 2003
Lecture to medical practitioners : The Contributing Factors to Mental
Health Problems in Doctors : 3rd National
Doctors' Health Conference 2003, North Sydney, NSW
Sept 2003
Attendance at lecture : Boxing Reboxetine Edronax Explicated, Sydney
August 2003 Lecture
to psychiatrists : Evolutionary Models of Mood Disorders, St John of
God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
August 2003
Lecture to general practitioners : Diagnosis & Initial Management of
Alzheimer's Dementia (Minds Matter), Strathfield, NSW (Sponsor: Pfizer)
August 2003
Lecture to general practitioners : Diagnosing & Managing Depression & Using
the Latest Antidepressants (ADVENT), Bankstown, NSW (Sponsor: Organon)
July 2003
Attendance
at lecture : Life Cycle Depression in Women, Sydney,
NSW
June 2003 Lecture
to psychiatrists : Introduction to Evolutionary Psychiatry, St John of
God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
June 2003 Lecture
to trainees & psychiatrists : Introduction to Evolutionary Psychiatry, Rozelle
Hospital, Central
Sydney Area Health Service, Rozelle, NSW
Apr 2003
Invited
as guest speaker to general practitioners at Central Sydney Division of General
Practice education seminar (National Prescribing Service CPD): Post Traumatic
Stress & Other Anxiety Disorders, Fivedock,
NSW
Mar 2003 -
Supervisor of medical student focused attachment, Faculty of Medicine, Sydney University,
Camperdown, NSW
Mar 2003
Attendance
at conference : The 13th Modern Management of Psychoses Conference, Sydney,
NSW
Mar 2003
Lecture to senior trainee psychiatrists : Evolutionary Psychiatry &
Evolution of Psychiatry, Newport,
NSW (Sponsor: Pfizer)
Jan 2003
Teaching lecture to 1st year trainee psychiatrists : Management of
Psychiatric Emergencies & Aggression, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta,
NSW
Oct 2002
Lecture
to mental health professionals : Use of antipsychotics in first onset
psychosis, Early Intervention in Psychosis Training Worjshop, Rozelle,
NSW
Oct 2002
Attendance
at conference : 15th Congress of the European College of
Neuro-psychopharmacology (ECNP), Barcelona, Spain
Sept 2002
Lecture
to local psychiatrists : Use of antipsychotics in the acute setting, North
Wollongong,
NSW
Sept 2002
Teaching lecture to 3rd year trainee psychiatrists : Personality Disorder Axis I
& II, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta,
NSW
June 2002 Attended round table discussion with Dr Russell D'Souza : Retrospective
Study of Treatment Emergent Glucose Intolerance with Indigenous Australians, Sydney,
NSW (Sponsor: Janssen-Cilag)
June 2002 Lecture
to Canterbury community mental health staff & general practitioners : Medical Care in Schizophrenia,
Leichhardt,
NSW (Sponsor: Janssen-Cilag)
June 2002 Lecture
to psychiatry registrars : Medical Care in Schizophrenia, Surry Hills,
NSW (Sponsor: Janssen-Cilag)
June 2002
Developed Rapid Tranquillisation Protocol for Drug Committee,
St John of God Hospital, Burwood,
NSW
May 2002 Invited
as guest speaker to general practitioners at Central Sydney Division of General
Practice education seminar (National Prescribing Service CPD): Depression:
Assessment, Management & Review, Fivedock,
NSW
April 2002 - Feb 2003
Supervisor for monthly group of general practitioners as part of the 2002
Psychiatrist Supervision Programme project
developed by Divisions of General Practice of Cental Sydney Area Health Service,
Ashfield, NSW
March 2002 Attendance
at conference : Neuroscience in Action : From Clinical Dilemma to Therapeutic
Breakthrough, Hamburg, Germany (Sponsor: Janssen-Cilag)
Feb 2002
Lecture
to general practitioners : Medical Care in Schizophrenia, Leichhardt,
NSW (Sponsor: Janssen-Cilag)
July - Nov 2001 Convenor and speaker at
monthly seminar series : Managing
Psychosis: A Shared Care Perspective, Leichhardt, NSW (Sponsor: Janssen-Cilag)
June 2001
Attendance
at conference : The Human Behaviour and Evolution Society's Annual Meeting, University College London,
London, United Kingdom
May 2001 Attendance
at conference : The American Psychiatric Association's Annual Meeting, New Orleans,
Louisiana, USA
March 2001 Lecture
to general practitioners : Atypical Antipsychotics, Leichhardt,
NSW
Nov 2000 Attendance
at conference : Modern Management of Psychoses Workshop - Exploring Guidelines for the
Treatment of Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses, Port Douglas, QLD
Jun 2000 Chairperson
of seminar : Fatigue and other Somatic Syndromes by Prof Ian Hickie, Burwood,
NSW
Mar 2000 Attendance
at conference : The Asia Pacific Regional Neuroscience Conference, Phuket, Thailand
(Sponsor: Eli Lilly)
Feb 2000 Attendance
at conference : The 2nd Asia-Pacific Psychopharmacology Workshop, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia (Sponsor: Janssen-Cilag)
Nov 1999
Presentation of Poster (A Doctors' Mental Health Internet Resource) at
conference : National
Doctors' Health Conference, Brisbane, QLD
August 1999 Lecture
to trainees & psychiatrists : Doctors Mental Health, Rozelle
Hospital, Central
Sydney Area Health Service, Rozelle, NSW
Oct 98 - May 99
Joined a group of investigators conducting a randomised control
double-blinded trial researching the responsiveness of exercise as a
treatment for major depressive disorder in an elderly population; the
psychological factors facilitating and inhibiting responsiveness to this
treatment modality were examined : Progressive
Resistance Training Exercise as a Treatment for Major Depression in a Geriatric
Population, Balmain Hospital, Balmain, NSW.
Publications:
Stevrinos, TM, Skarbek, Y, Galambos, G, Fiatarone Singh MA, Singh, NA. The effects of low intensity versus high intensity progressive resistance weight
training on shoulder function in the elderly: A randomised controlled trial. Australian and New Zealand J of Med 30(2): 305, 2000.
Singh, NA, Stevrinos, TM, Skarbek, Y, Galambos, G, Fiatarone Singh MA. The effectiveness and appropriate intensity of progressive resistance training required to treat clinical depression in the elderly: A randomised controlled trial. Australian and New Zealand J of Med 30(2): 304, 2000.
Nalin A. Singh, Theodora M. Stavrinos, Yvonne Skarbek, Gary Galambos,
Cas Liber, & Maria A. Fiatarone Singh. A Randomised Controlled Trial of High vs. Low Intensity Weight Training vs. General Practitioner Care for Clinical Depression in Older Adults
(accepted for publication to the Journal of Gerontology, American Gerontological
Society in March 2004)
May 1999 Dissertation:
Developing a Doctors Mental Health Internet
Web site Resource
Feb-Mar 1995 Attendance
at seminar series : Practical Analytic Psychotherapy : Donald Winnicott, Metta
Clinic, Pymble, NSW
Sep-Nov 1994 Attendance
at seminar series : Dynamic Psychotherapy for Psychiatry Trainees, NSW Institute
of Psychotherapy, Rozelle, NSW
1994-1999 Psychotherapy
supervision, Dr Ray Cooper & Dr Isla Lonie, Rozelle & Camperdown,
NSW

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