Chris Davey is the Head of Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne and a psychiatrist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He is the current Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. Chris’s main clinical and research interest is in the management of severe mood disorders, especially in young people. He has led, or is leading, large multicentre clinical trials of treatments for depression and bipolar disorder at the university and RMH. 

Chris completed his medical degree at the University of Western Australia. He trained in psychiatry in Sydney and Melbourne, and completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne. Before he commenced his current roles, Chris worked for many years at Orygen, a youth mental health clinical and research program in Melbourne.

Dr David De Luchi is a Psychiatrist holding fellowships with both the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. He has completed advanced training in child and adolescent psychiatry. Dr De Luchi works with young people aged 5 to 25 in the outpatient setting, and provides inpatient care for youth aged 14 to 25. His clinical work includes supporting young people experiencing conditions such as anxiety, depression, OCD, eating disorders and developmental conditions such as ADHD.

Dr Mali De Silva has worked in the field of psychiatry for over 15 years. She graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Melbourne in 2001 and worked in a range of medical and surgical settings before training in Psychiatry. Dr De Silva completed a Masters of Psychiatry from the University of Melbourne in 2007 and achieved her Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 2011. She has worked across Australia in both the public and private sector, in various community and inpatient settings, ranging from major tertiary hospital settings to rural settings.

Dr De Silva is committed to holistic, individualised and patient-centred care. Her strengths include an enormous capacity for empathy and understanding, clear communication, and an excellent knowledge of psychopharmacology.

Dr De Silva is a locally trained psychiatrist, with over 10 years of practice in psychiatry, both in New Zealand and Australia with experience in peri natal psychiatry, early psychosis, trans-cultural issues and migrant mental health, personality disorders and old age psychiatry.

Special interests
• CBT / DBT / Supportive psychotherapy / ACT / family therapy approach for most of the psychiatric disorders with or without pharmacological interventions
• Depression / Anxiety /Psychosis / BPAD
• Offering support (psychological and pharmacological) for drug related issues

Dr De Silva wishes to develop a broad psychiatric practice at Mitcham Private Hospital, and will consult regularly onsite from March 2013, supporting both outpatient and inpatient psychiatric services. She welcomes all new referrals for patients who require a management plan and is keen to work with general practitioners to provide further reviews as needed and to provide expertise in bulk-billed 291 and 293 assessments.

As an accredited psychiatrist at Mitcham Private Hospital’s private adult inpatient psychiatric unit Victoria Court, Dr De Silva will also accept inpatient and day program referrals for patients requiring care for:

• Mood and Anxiety Disorders
• Spectrum Disorders
• Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
• Schizophrenia
• Bipolar Disorders
• Stress
• Grief

Dr Dhawan has been working in Psychiatry for over 19 years with extensive experience in management of adult psychiatric conditions including acute and severe mental illnesses.

He has a special interest in mood disorders, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and management of psychiatric patients on lithium and clozapine.

Dr Dhawan sees patients between the ages of 18 to 75 and is also fluent in Hindi and Punjabi. 

Dr Maneesh Dhingra is a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists since 2009. He currently holds a Senior Psychiatrist position at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and is a Senior Lecturer with the University of Queensland.  He works as an Independent Medical examiner for Work Cover Queensland and is a medical member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal.

Dr Dhingra has experience in treating a wide range of mental health condidtions including Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Post traumatic stress disorder and Psychosis.  Dr Dhingra is committed to working together with patients and carers to develop safe and effective treatment plans that utilise an evidence-based approach.

Dr Tristram Duncan is a Psychiatrist. 

My practice is an eclectic one but my main interests are in mood disorders (depression, bipolar disorder etc), chronic somatic presentations (chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, polyarthralgia, irritable bowel etc), the emotional impacts of living with cancer, relationship counselling and psychodynamic psychotherapy.  I also provide medicolegal reports.

Dr Dutta trained in psychiatry in India and Australia. Dr Dutta has been in the Goulburn Valley for more than 12 years as a General Adult Psychiatrist. He has an interest  in mood and personality disorders.

Dr Mahdod Eftekar is a senior lecturer the University of Queensland and works as a psychiatrist at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and Ramsay Clinic New Farm Clinic. 

Dr Eftekar trained in psychiatry at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. He then pursued subspecialty training in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry which is the interface between psychological and medical health. 

His special interests include consultation-liaison psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, sleep disorders, ADHD, mood and anxiety disorders.