Treatment Services

Dr Meagher is a Psychiatrsit who provides a comprehensive psychiatric assessment service, working collaboratively with other members of the patient’s treating team to optimise functioning. Dr Meagher also provides treatment on an ongoing basis, with a focus on CBT and mindfulness based cognitive therapy. Dr Meagher’s private practice for assessing outpatients is at the Evesham Consulting rooms in Cremorne. He is also a visiting medical officer (VMO) with the Sydney Parkinson and Movement Disorders Surgical Clinic at North Shore Private Hospital and a VMO at the Mood Disorders Unit at Ramsay Clinic Northside.

Additional Services

Dr Meagher actively participates in research and teaching, and is a Clinical Associate at the University of Sydney. He is an accredited RANZCP supervisor for the training of registrars.

About Dr Linton

Linton Meagher obtained his medical degree, with honours, from the University of Sydney. He completed his psychiatry training at the Royal North Shore Hospital, obtaining Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) in 2008. He also completed post-fellowship RANZCP accreditation in the sub-speciality of Consultation-Liaison psychiatry and completed a Master of Psychiatry. He was awarded an Institute of Psychiatry Fellowship and a RANZCP Young Investigator Grant for specialised training in neuropsychiatry, focusing on the neuropsychiatric morbidity associated with Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s disease.

Dr Miao is a psychiatrist who provides comprehensive psychiatric assessment and treatment services, primarily for depression, anxiety, bipolar disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and psychosis. She offers outpatient consultations at Level 1 Consultation Suites and provides inpatient care at the specialised Mood Disorders Unit, both located within Ramsay Clinic Northside.

Dr Miao is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, having trained at leading institutions at Northern Sydney Local Health District. She has extensive experience working in both private and public sectors.

Dr Miao is dedicated to providing the highest levels of care with both pharmacological and psychological interventions. Her approach is holistic, thorough and balanced. She is committed to keeping her skills and knowledge up to date, utilizing treatments derived from the best available evidence.

Dr Miao is a native Mandarin speaker. She provides holistic care in managing patients from various cultural backgrounds, offering culturally sensitive and patient-centred care within a bio-psycho-social-cultural context.

Dr Miao is also a RANZCP OSCE examiner. She is actively involved in teaching for both registrars at training and medical students.

Treatment services:

Professor Mitchell provides comprehensive assessment and treatment services of patients with depression and bipolar disorder. He sees patients in the Level 3 consulting suites at Ramsay Clinic Northside and admits patients to the inpatient Mood Disorders Unit.

Professor Mitchell is the Director of the Mood Disorders Service at Ramsay Clinic Northside. He is Scientia Professor in the School of Psychiatry at University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia; Board Member, Anika Foundation for Adolescent Depression and Suicide; Chair and Board Member, Bipolar Australia; and Convener of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders conference to be held in Sydney in March 2019. His research and clinical interests are in bipolar disorder and depression, with a particular focus on: predictors of the development of bipolar disorder in at-risk individuals; molecular genetics of bipolar disorder; pharmacological and psychological treatments for bipolar disorder and depression; clinical phenomenology of bipolar disorder and depression; and neurostimulatory therapies for depression.

Professor Mitchell has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers, books or book chapters.   He serves on the editorial boards of ‘Psychiatric Genetics’, ‘CNS Drugs’, ‘CNS Spectrums’, ‘Frontiers in Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics’, ‘Future Neurology’, ‘International Journal of Bipolar Disorders’, ‘Journal of Affective Disorders’, ‘Medicine Today’ and ‘Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology’. In 2002 he was awarded the Senior Research Award of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP).  In 2004, he received the Founders Medal of the Australasian Society for Psychiatry Research. In 2008, he was invited to give the endowed Samuel Novey Lecture in Psychological Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. In the 2010 Australia Day honours list Professor Mitchell was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia for service to medical education, particularly in the field of psychiatry, as an academic, researcher and practitioner, through contributions to the understanding, treatment and prevention of mental illnesses.

In 2013 he was awarded the College Citation of the RANZCP for exceptional service to psychiatry. In 2015, he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. In 2017, he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

Professor Mitchell sees adult patients and older adolescents.

Dr Morgans is a medical doctor who completed her Medical Training in England.  She completed her initial psychiatric training with RPA Hospital followed by advanced training in Forensic Psychiatry at Long Bay Correctional Complex. She holds a Masters in Psychiatry and a Master of Forensic Psychiatry.  She is both a General Adult and Forensic Psychiatrist.  She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

Treatment Services:

Dr Morgans provides assessment and treatment services for anxiety disorders, mood disorders, drug and alcohol and psychotic disorders.

In addition to private psychiatric practice, Dr Morgans holds a staff specialist position at Long Bay Correctional Centre and Silverwater Correctional Centre. She is experienced in providing psychiatric services via the medium of telehealth. Dr Morgans holds an academic appointment at UNSW as an associate conjoint lecturer.

Dr Morgans offers outpatient and inpatient psychiatric care at Ramsay Clinic Northside.

Dr Mukherjee completed his medical degree (MBBS) at the University of Western Sydney.  He is a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. He completed further subspecialist training in Forensic Psychiatry to attain his certificate in Forensic Psychiatry and is a member of the RANZCP Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry. He has a Master of Medicine in Psychiatry (MMed) from the University of Sydney and a Master of Forensic Mental Health (MFMH) from the University of New South Wales

He works as a VMO Psychiatrist at the Northern Beaches Hospital and Northside Clinic St Leonards. He is an accredited supervisor of training for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

Dr Mukherjee has an interest in all areas of general psychiatry and provides comprehensive psychiatric assessment and treatment of ADHD, Mood Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, and Personality Disorders.  He employs a biopsychosocial approach believes in the importance of trauma informed care.

Dr Mukherjee sees patients age 18-60 and is accepting new patients.

Dr Nadeswaran is a psychiatrist working at the Northside Clinic treating clients with mood disorders, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and psychotic illnesses. He sees clients on an inpatient and outpatient basis.

Dr Sian Ong provides comprehensive psychiatric assessment and treatment of patients across the spectrum of general psychiatric disorders.

He sees outpatients across a wide age range, from the age of 12 to adult, with a variety of anxiety and depressive disorders, interpersonal problems, personality vulnerabilities and ADHD. He likes mindfulness compassionate based whole person approaches in psychiatric management in addition to biological treatments.

For those who require inpatient treatment, he admits to the adult general mental health ward, eating disorders ward and the child and adolescent mental health ward at Ramsay Northside St Leonards Clinic.

He is a medical graduate of the University of New South Wales. He has obtained his psychiatry specialist qualification (FRANZCP) from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 2000 and further obtained sub-specialty advanced training certificate in child and adolescent psychiatry from the same RANZCP college in 2021. In previous years, he has participated in RANZCP college as an examiner during the final exams for future specialist psychiatry candidates. He enjoys a wide range of music, enjoys playing the piano in private for friends and in public during his medical student days but less often now.

Tacita has experience working in both the public and private sector with complex presentations. Apart from private practice her appointments are with Justice Health with the adolescent forensic team in Sydney. She enjoys working with the whole family system and in addition to systemic training has further skills in attachment-focused family therapy, narrative therapy, internal family systems therapy, circle of security and tuning into teens. She enjoys working with families and groups utilising mentalisation based therapy. 

Dr Anthony Sams is a Psychiatrist who completed his undergraduate medical training at the University of Newcastle, NSW. He completed training in Psychiatry in Sydney and has been a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists since 2001.

In addition to his psychiatric qualification, in 2002 Dr Sams was awarded Fellowship in the Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine (Royal Australasian College of Physicians).

Dr Sams has worked in both public and private mental health sectors, working primarily in the sub-speciality of Addiction Psychiatry.   He is a Senior Staff Specialist Psychiatrist in Addiction Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital NSW.

Dr Sams has been the Medical Director of the Drug and Alcohol Programs at Ramsay Cinic Northside, and Ramsay Clinic Wentworthville from 2007-2017.

Treatment Services

• In-patient Detoxification and Rehabilitation.
• Assessment for psychiatric comorbid conditions, commencement or referral for further treatment.
• Assessment and advice for inpatients regarding suitable anti-craving medication.
• Group therapy for hospitalised patients.
• Dr Sams has a particular interest in treating comorbid Anxiety Disorders with Addictions, and the use of medication treatments for Alcohol Use disorders.

Additional Services

• Outpatient group therapy within the Ramsay Clinic Northside for patients maintaining recovery from addiction.