Ramsay Clinic Albert Road
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Dr Peter McArdle
Service:
Psychiatry
Dr McArdle graduated form Monash University in 1978. After hospital training and working in the UK in general jobs he did general practice training. He then undertook psychiatry working full time in the public sector before moving to the established aged psychiatry at Ramsay Clinic Albert Road in the 1990's. His practice now includes adult (general) psychiatry. Treating inpatients and outpatients. He is a part time tutor at the Melbourne University. He sits on the Mental Health Review Tribunal and also works at Foundation House with refugees.
Qualifications:
MBBS, DPM, FRANZP
Dr Piyumali (Mali) De Silva
Service:
Psychiatry
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.
Qualifications:
MBBS, MASTER OF PSYCHIATRY, FRANZCP
Dr Simone Luscombe
Service:
Psychiatry
Dr Luscombe has worked in the field of Psychiatry since 1991, including as a fully qualified consultant psychiatrist since 1999. Through those years, she has developed a practice as a Psychotherapist using a mix of therapeutic modalities including _insight-orientated therapies, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma Based Psychotherapy. Dr Luscombe's particular area of interest is in attachment patterns and developmental trauma, understanding their contribution to personality development and adult mental health.
Qualifications:
MBBS, FRANZCP
Professor Chris Davey
Service:
Psychiatry
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.
Qualifications:
MBBS(Hons) MPsychiatry PhD, FRANZCP
Professor John Tiller
Service:
Psychiatry
Professor Tiller's research interests have been in the assessment and treatment of depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, psychoses including bipolar disorder, and the development and improvement of training and knowledge about electroconvulsive therapy. He has more than 300 scientific publications. He has an interest in governance, especially of not for profits – helping them being more effective in post graduate education and clinical services.
Qualifications:
MD MB ChB BSc DPM FRACP FRANZCP GAICD
Professor Louise Newman AM
Service:
Psychiatry
Louise Newman AM is Professorial Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Newcastle University and Monash University. She has held senior leadership positions in mental health training and research including Director of the NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Director of the Monash University Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology and is Director of the Melbourne University BEAR (Building Early Attachment and Resilience) research program. She is recognised as Australia’s lead researcher in the areas of infant and early child mental health, disturbances of early parenting and parent-infant interventions. She has worked extensively in developing clinical programs for women with backgrounds of complex trauma and mental health issues needing support in the perinatal period and has over 25 years’ experience in women’s mental health. She is recognised as the leading international expert in the issues facing women with complex trauma disorder in pregnancy and the perinatal period. She is the past Director of the Centre for Women’s Mental Health at the Royal Women’s Hospital. She is currently Consultant Psychiatrist at the Ramsay Clinic Albert Road specialising in women’s mental health and perinatal and infant mental health.
Qualifications:
BA MBBS FRANZCP Cert. Child Psych
Professor Malcolm Hopwood
Service:
Psychiatry
In addition to his clinical roles, Malcolm has a long track record of involvement in psychiatric research, focused on mood and anxiety disorders, psychopharmacology and psychiatric aspects of acquired brain injury. He also leads the undergraduate and registrar training schemes at the Ramsay Clinic Albert Road. Malcolm was President of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists from 2015 to 2017, President of the Asian Federation of Psychiatric Associations from 2019 to 2022 and is now the Chair of the North East Metro Regional Mental Health Body in Victoria.
Qualifications:
MBBS, MPM, MD, FRANZCP
Professor Saroja Krishnaswamy
Service:
Psychiatry
Professor Krishnaswamy was Head, Deputy Dean and Professor of Psychiatry at Penang Medical College (which is part of the National University of Ireland) from 2005 to 2009 and prior to that Professor of Psychiatry at the National University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. In 1995 she was conferred the Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 2009. In Australia she has worked in the public sector in South Australia, New South Wales and in Victoria (Monash Health) as a consultant psychiatrist in mainly acute general psychiatry. She has also worked in private practice in Sydney while continuing part-time public work and a conjoint academic at the University of New South Wales and University of Western Sydney. She has worked with Monash Health in Victoria and now works privately full-time at the Ramsay Clinic Albert Road.
Qualifications:
MBBS (Malaya), FRC Psych, MSc (Clinical Epidemiology), Dip. Psychol. Med, FRANZCP