PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & POSITIONS

Psychotherapy Faculty

Philosophy Special Interest Group

Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group  
Founding member from 2003

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

Member & Communications Officer from 2005

International Neuropsychiatry Association
Member from 2006

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

Evolutionary Psychiatry

Perinatal Psychiatry

Treatment of mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders in adolescents

Doctors' Mental Health

Exercise as a treatment for depressive disorders

Continuing Professional Education for general practitioners, medical students and registrars

Using metaphors to engage and psychoeducate patients

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

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. 

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

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) 

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

Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Dr Gary Galambos M.B.B.S. F.R.A.N.Z.C.P.

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