Biography

Assoc/Prof Gary Galambos is well-recognised within the medical field as a skilled and compassionate psychiatrist. He is also an educator, service developer and advocate for improved mental health care. His areas of interest are mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders and youth mental health. As a clinician Gary combines psychoeducation, individual psychotherapy, medication and innovative treatments like transcranial magnetic intervention and virtual reality. His patients consider him personable, caring and helpful in gaining a deeper understanding of their diagnoses.

Professional and advocacy roles include leading the Royal Australian and NZ College of Psychiatry (RANZCP) NSW Branch and serving as a counsellor at the Medical Benevolent Association of NSW, a charitable NGO serving doctors with psychosocial problems.

Assoc/Prof Galambos has campaigned for confidentiality of patient records, establishment of an online Fellows Directory for information about Australian psychiatrists, and was a key player in preventing US Managed Care corporations exploiting Australians.

Assoc/Prof Galambos continues to serve through education, training, advocacy and service development. He was recently reappointed as chair of the RANZCP NSW Section of Youth Mental Health Committee and continues to lead the binational RANZCP Section of Private Practice Committee.

During his time as Medical Director of the St John of God Hospital Burwood, Assoc/Prof Galambos developed what was the only Mother Baby Unit for postnatal depression in NSW, along with highly regarded services for young people with borderline personality disorder, substance addiction and treatment-resistant psychotic disorders.

Assoc/Prof Galambos is also the Medical Director and one of the founding psychiatrists of Uspace, the youth and young adult mental health service at St Vincent's Private Hospital in Sydney.

His vision to make innovative mental health treatments more accessible has led Assoc/Prof Galambos to introduce cutting edge services such as MRI-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), scent-augmented virtual reality to Uspace and digital mental health platform. To develop this suite of innovative services, Assoc/Prof Galambos founded MindSkiller®️, a digital mental health service, to rapidly enhance mental health care in response to growing demand and to address the need for more sophisticated mental health education and innovation. MindSkiller will play a key role in connecting help-seekers with primary care, specialist, allied health and peer support help-providers, as well as mental health organisations and services.

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