7 Aug 2018 Lecture to psychiatric nurses : “Conversion Disorder: using Dr.eGG’s Mindskiller?”, Uspace, St Vincent’s Private Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW
15 May 2018 Lecture to psychiatrists : “Private psychiatric practice in Australia from a hospital setting”, RANZCP Congress, Auckland, New Zealand
15 May 2018 Lecture to psychiatrists : “An overview of private psychiatric practice in Australia as a career option and business”, RANZCP Congress, Auckland, New Zealand
4 Nov 2017 Lecture to psychoanalysts & psychiatrists : “Subpoenas & psychiatrist-patient confidentiality” and panel member (with Federal Magistrate Judge Tom Altobelli, senior solicitor at the Women’s Legal Service NSW Carolyn Jones and Jungian Analyst/Art Therapist Julia Meyerowitz-Katz) at the Couple, Child & Family Psychotherapy Association of Australasia Seminar “Take Note! What Happens when a Therapist’s Notes are Subpoenaed?”, Glebe, NSW
29 Oct 2017 Participated as Panel Member in “The Sydney Jewish Museum together with Sydney Health Ethics at the University of Sydney present – Beyond Empathy: Responsibility in a post-truth world” (other panel members ABC Journalist Hagar Cohen & Community worker and outspoken Catholic Parish Priest Father Bob Maguire, compared by Professorial Fellow at the Sydney Jewish Museum Dr Michael Robertson), Sydney, NSW
16 June 2017 Lecture to solicitors, endocrinologists, NGOs, consumers : “Diagnosing gender dysphoria, comorbid mental health problems and assessing capacity to consent to treatment”, The social, medical and legal issues facing children with gender dysphoria, Inner City Legal Centre & NSW Legal Aid, Surry Hills, NSW
2 May 2017 Lecture to psychiatrists : “Mental Health Reform in NSW Working with Primary Health Networks to develop a funded Stepped Care-Consultation Liaison Model to reduce the ‘Access Gap’ to Private Psychiatrists”, Section of Private Practice Psychiatry Symposium, RANZCP Congress, Adelaide, SA
1 May 2017 Lecture to psychiatrists : “Subpoenas & psychiatrist-patient confidentiality”, RANZCP Congress, Adelaide, SA
29 Nov 2016 Lecture to early career psychiatrists : “How to establish and run a successful private practice”, Balmain, Sydney, NSW
10 Nov 2016 Lecture to psychiatry trainees : “Doctors Mental Health & Mandatory Reporting”, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta, NSW
15 Oct 2016 Participated as Panel Member in session “Opportunities for Improving the System” chaired by Prof Stan Catts at PsyAcademy III “Optimising Care in Schizophrenia: Can More Be Done?”, Sydney, NSW (Sponsor: Janssen-Cilag)
3 Aug 2016 Lecture to psychiatrists: “Psychiatry in NSW: Through a Private Health Looking-Glass”, The Sydney Clinic Medical Advisory Committee AGM, Double Bay, Australia
10 May 2016 Lecture to psychiatrists: “The Erosion of Psychiatrist-Patient Confidentiality by Subpoenas: An Update”, Section of Private Practice Psychiatry (PPN) Symposium “Whither Private Practice Psychiatry?”, RANZCP Annual Congress, Hong Kong, China
16 Feb 2016 Lecture to psychiatric nurses : “Borderline Personality Disorder: Therapeutic Battleground?”, Uspace, St Vincent’s Private Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW
12 Nov 2015 Lecture to psychiatry trainees : “Doctors Mental Health”, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta, NSW
1 Oct 2015 Lecture to psychiatrists: “A computer-assisted psychoeducation program for hospitalised young adults with mental disorders: a naturalistic pilot study”, RANZCP Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Congress, Port Vila, Vanuatu
18 May 2015 Lecture to psychiatrists: CASP/SIGLAM Seminar - The NSW Mental Health Strategic Plan and Government Response: Can we work together? John Feneley, Gary Galambos, Murray Wright, Robin Murray
6 May 2015 Lecture to psychiatrists: “Establishing a Private Young Adult Unit in Sydney”, Section of Private Practice Psychiatry (PPN) Symposium “Brave New Worlds: Evolving Paradigms in Private Practice”, RANZCP Annual Congress, Brisbane, QLD
27 Nov 2014 Lecture for New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry 50th Anniversary, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta, NSW
13 Nov 2014 Lecture to psychiatry trainees : “Doctors Mental Health”, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta, NSW
14 May 2014 Lecture to psychiatrists: “The erosion of psychiatrist–patient confidentiality by subpoenas with recommendations around expanding and enforcing privilege”, RANZCP Annual Congress, Perth, WA
2 May 2014 Lecture to nurses, allied health clinicians & psychiatry trainees: “The PsyEd Brain Manual & Mind Toolkit”, St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW
8 Apr 2014 Lecture to psychiatry trainees, allied health clinicians & psychiatrists: “The PsyEd Brain Manual & Mind Toolkit”, St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW
25 February 2014 Lecture to GPs and pharmacists : “Diagnosis, Screening, referral and Management of Depression in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults - Depression Across the Lifespan Series”, Central Sydney GP Network, Ashfield, NSW
19 Nov 2013 Lecture to psychiatry trainees: “The PsyEd (PsychoEducation) Program”, Institute of Psychiatry, North Parramatta, NSW
Oct 2013 Lecture to GPs, psychologists & psychiatrists : “Borderline Personality Disorder”, MHPN, Darlinghurst, NSW
Oct 2013 Keynote Lecture to consumers : “ADHD Comorbidity & Psychoeducation Program”, Adults with ADHD Annual Conference, Sydney, NSW
27 Jun 2013 Lecture to psychiatry trainees : “Doctors Mental Health”, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta, NSW
25 Jun 2013 Lecture to GPs : “Borderline Personality Disorder and DBT”, Eastern Sydney Medicare Local, Rosebery, NSW
7 May 2013 Lecture to psychiatric nurses and psychologists : “Modules 1 & 2: The Psychoeducation Program”, Uspace, St Vincent’s Private Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW
22 April 2013 Lecture to GPs, psychologists and practice nurses : “Diagnosis, Screening, referral and Management of Depression in Children and Adolescents - Depression Across the Lifespan Series”, Central Sydney GP Network, Ashfield, NSW
17 April 2013 Lecture to GPs, psychologists and psychiatrists : “Modules 1 & 2: The Psychoeducation Program”, St John of God Hospital Burwood, Burwood, NSW
27 Nov 2012 Lecture to psychiatrists, anaesthetists and trainees, “Ultrabrief ECT”, ECT training seminar, SJOG Hospital, Sydney
19 Nov 2012Guest speaker to lecture at MBA of NSW AGM : “Crisis Intervention, Cooperation & Attachment: Implications for Service Delivery for Doctor Families in Distress”, North Sydney, NSW
24 Oct 2012 Lecture to GPs : “Teaching Patients with Mental Disorders To Use Their Minds to Treat Their Brains: The Psychoeducation Program”, Jewish House, Bondi, NSW
10 Oct 2012 Lecture to GPs, psychologists and practice nurses : “Conditions associated with psychotic symptoms”, Medicare Local Inner West Sydney Central Sydney GP Network, Burwood, NSW
07 Aug 2012 Lecture to psychotherapists : “Collaborative Care – The Beginning of a New Multi-Disciplinary Model Integrating Brain, Mind and Body. Is there a place for all of us?”, Australian Somatic Psychotherapy Association, Crows Nest, NSW
28 June 2012 Lecture to GPs, psychologists and practice nurses : “Diagnosis, Screening, referral and Management of Depression in Children and Adolescents - Depression Across the Lifespan Series”, Central Sydney GP Network, Ashfield, NSW
May 2012 Lecture to advanced psychiatry trainees : “Setting up in Private Practice”, HETI, Homebush, NSW
Apr 2012 Lecture to GPs and psychiatrists : “Teaching Patients how to Use their Minds to Treat Their Brains”, SJOG Hospital, Burwood, NSW
Oct 2011 Lecture to psychiatry trainees : “Doctors Mental Health”, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta, NSW
Oct 2011 Lecture to GPs and specialists : “How to Manage Difficult Patients”, Wahroonga Medical Association, Dee Why, NSW
16 Jun 2011Guest speaker, lecture to attendees of Doctors’ Health Advisory Service (DHAS) of NSW AGM : “Do Troubled Doctors Become Troublesome Patients?”, North Sydney, NSW
3 Jun 2011Lecture to mental health professionals and advocates : “Did Frida Kahloe Do Therapy?”, “Trauma Informed Care” conference, Mental Health Coordinating Council (MHCC), Sydney, NSW
26 May 2011 Lecture to psychiatrists : “Leadership, Education and Training in Private Practice Psychiatry”, RANZCP Annual Congress, Darwin, NT.
26 May 2011 Convenor & Chair PPN Stream “Building Blocks and Innovations in Private Practice Psychiatry”, RANZCP Annual Congress, Darwin, NT.
15 Nov 2010Guest speaker, lecture to medical attendees of MBA of NSW AGM : “Doctors Mental Health”, North Sydney, NSW
4 Nov 2010Lecture to psychiatry trainees : “Doctors Mental Health”, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta, NSW
Oct 2010 Lecture to general practitioners and psychiatrists : “Trauma in Motherhood - a Pictorial Journey”, CPD lecture, St John of God Hospital Burwood, NSW
26 Jul 2010 Lecture to MDA National solicitors : “Challenging, Difficult, Troublesome Doctors”, MDA National Claims and Advisory Services Conference, Bondi Beach, NSW
24 & 27 May 2010 Invited panel speaker for MDA National National Medical Registration “Medicolegal Minefield” Discussion forum, Sydney Olympic Park
21-23 May 2010 Lecture to general practitioners : “CBT Intervention for Adolescents” – Workshop, General Practitioner Conference and Exhibition (GPCE), Sydney, NSW (workshops conducted on three occasions)
Mar 2010 Lecture to Australian Psychological Society's Evolutionary Psychology Interest Group : A Usable Evolutionary CLassification System for Mental Disorders, Broadway, Sydney
4 Nov 2009Lecture to psychiatry trainees : “Private Practice Psychiatry Lecture”, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta, NSW
16 Sept 2009 Lecture to general practitioners and psychiatrists : “Challenging, Difficult, Troublesome Patients: Losses or Opportunities?”, CPD lecture, St John of God Hospital Burwood, NSW
22-24 May 2009Lecture to general practitioners : “CBT Intervention Strategies in GP – when, what & how to perform them?” – Seminar, “Trauma-Related Mental Disorders – Assessment & Rx” – Workshops, GPCE, Sydney, NSW (workshops conducted on three occasions)
Jan 2009 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 2008 Lecture to general practitioners : Chronic mi qty use of meds, Central Sydney Divisions of General Practitioners QUMIMH, Sydney
Oct 2008 Lecture to psychiatrists and career medical officers : Duloxetine and Neuroplasticity, Concord (Sponsor: Boehringer-Ingelheim)
Oct 2008 Lecture to general practitioners : Pharmacological management of depression, Central Sydney Divisions of General Practitioners, Sydney
Oct 2008 Lecture to psychiatry registrars : Psychotropic drugs in pregnancy and lactation, Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta
Sept 2008 Moderator at Hypothetical Symposium : "Well, how depressed do I have to be to be given medication?", Panel: Liz Almond, Jane Honikman, Atif Rahman, Jonathan Rampono, Vijay Roach, Julia Seng, The International Marcé Society 2008 Conference, Manly, Sydney
Aug 2008 Lectures to general practitioners : Sleeping Soundly - Considerations for improving the safe use of hypnotic medication, Clinical Weekend Meeting, Sydney (Sponsor: Sanofi-Aventis)
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
July 2007 Lecture to general practitioners (Canterbury Division): Postnatal Depression, Belmore, 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
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 Lecture to psychiatrists : Why Evolutionary Psychiatry?, Leichhardt, NSW (Sponsors: AstraZeneca, Wyeth)
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)
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
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
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)
May 2004 Lecture to general practitioners : Using metaphors to engage & psychoeducate patients with mental disorders, Darling Harbour, NSW (Sponsor: AstraZeneca)
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
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
Sept 2003 Lecture to medical practitioners : The Contributing Factors to Mental Health Problems in Doctors : 3rd National Doctors' Health Conference 2003, North Sydney, NSW
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)
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 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
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 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)
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
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)
March 2001 Lecture to general practitioners : Atypical Antipsychotics, Leichhardt, NSW
August 1999 Lecture to trainees & psychiatrists : Doctors Mental Health, Rozelle Hospital, Central Sydney Area Health Service, Rozelle, NSW
Apr 2016 CHAIR, Panel of psychiatrists: Dr Anne-Marie Swann, Prof Perminder Sachdev, Dr Chris Cocks & Dr John Lam-Po-Tang, “Careers & Private Practice” NNSW Association of Psychiatry Trainees seminar, Darlinghurst, NSW
14 May 2014 CONVENOR & CHAIR, PPN SYMPOSIUM RANZCP CONGRESS 2014 : “Patient Privilege – Reclaiming Confidentiality!” Session1: “How changes to Australia’s privacy legislation opened up access to psychiatric records to lawyers and actuaries”, Dr Bill Pring; Session 2: “Consumer stories involving two harrowing and informative accounts of personal experiences with insurance companies that interfered with the therapeutic process and inhibited treatment” presented by Dr Galambos on behalf of consumers; Session 3: “The advantages and disadvantages of easy access to psychiatric records by Family Law and Children's Courts and what is in the best interests of the child”, by Dr Tracie Hendriks; Session 4: “The erosion of psychiatrist–patient confidentiality by subpoenas with recommendations around expanding and enforcing privilege”, Dr G Galambos; RANZCP Annual Congress, Perth, WA
Nov 2013 CHAIR, Lecture by Prof Gin Mahli, DSM-5: Taxonomy Gone Mad?, Crows Nest, NSW
22 May 2013 CONVENOR & CHAIR, PPN SYMPOSIUM RANZCP CONGRESS 2013 : Session1 “Aspirations - Research, Training & Collaborative Care in Private Practice”; Session 2 “Achievements - Virtual Frames & Therapeutic Designs”, RANZCP Annual Congress, Sydney, NSW
May 2012 CONVENOR, CHAIR & SPEAKER PPN SYMPOSIUM RANZCP CONGRESS 2012 : “New Models of Care in Private Practice Psychiatry: Expanding into non-traditional areas - Research and Registrars; New models for Traditional Areas - working in collaboration, consulting rooms built by academics and hospitals built by psychiatrists”, RANZCP Annual Congress, Hobart, Tasmania
May 2011 CONVENOR & CHAIR PPN STREAM : “Building Blocks and Innovations in Private Practice Psychiatry”, RANZCP Annual Congress, Darwin, NT
18 Aug 2010 Convening of special event CPD lecture “Walking and Talking the Black Dog”, Matthew Johnstone, Writer and Illustrator of the Black Dog Series / Creative Consultant to the Black Dog Institute, St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
Jun 2010 Convening of CPD lecture “Mental Disorders Through the Looking Glass : How Culture Shapes Common Presentations”, Dr Tanveer Ahmed, Psychiatry Registrar, St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
May 2010 Attendance at conference : R.A.N.Z.C.P Annual Congress, Auckland, NZ. Chaired PPN AGM at RANZCP Annual Congress 4/5/2010
May 2010 Convening of CPD lecture “Perinatal Anxiety: the Neglected Symptoms”, Prof Bryanne Barnett, Consultant Child Adolescent and Perinatal Psychiatrist, St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
Apr 2010 Convening of CPD lecture “Psychostimulants: Be Very Afraid!”, Prof John Saunders, Prof of Alcohol and Drug Studies / Consultant Physician in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine, St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
Mar 2010 Convening of CPD lecture “A Parenting Assessment Tool for Dyads Affected by Mental Illness”, Ms Kathryn Knights, PhD Candidate Sydney Univesity / research Project Officer Westmead Hospital, at St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
6 Mar 2010 Convenor and participant in ultrabrief upgrade training, ECT training seminar, SJOG Hospital, Sydney
Feb 2010 Convening of CPD lecture “Should We Be Excited About Positive Psychotherapy?”, Dr Alyosha Jacobson, Psychiatry Registrar, St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
Nov 2009 Convening of CPD lecture “Transcultural issues and overseas born psychogeriatric patients”, Prof Sadanand Rajkumar, St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
Aug 2009 Convening of CPD lecture “Gambling addictions: psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy”, Prof John Saunders and Dr Clive Allcock, St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
Jul 2009 Convening of CPD lecture “Why doctors kill”, Assoc Prof Robert Kaplan, St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
Jun 2009 Convening of CPD lecture “The forgotten kids: helping children who have a parent with a mental illness”, Dr Raphael Chan, St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
May 2009 Convening of CPD lecture “Mental health across the reproductive cycle”, Prof Marie-Paule Austin, St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
Apr 2009 Convening of CPD lecture “Adolescents: Their drugs of choice”, Prof John Saunders, St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
Mar 2009 Convening of CPD lecture “A Shrink’s Neurology”, Dr Milton Roxanos, St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
Feb 2009 Convening of CPD special event lecture “How knowing when depression is useful can help end useless depression”, Prof Randolph Nesse, St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
Nov 2008 Convenor, half-day seminar : Perinatal Psychiatry Seminar, St John of God Health Services, Burwood, NSW (Sponsor: )
Nov 2008 Convening of Medical Benevolent Association of NSW and SJOG Hospital Burwood co-hosted workshop : Vicarious Traumatisation of Medical Practitioners by Dr Robert Grant pHD, St John of God Hospital, Sydney
Aug 2007 Convening of and participant at training seminar/workshop : ECT Update, Northside Clinic, Sydney, NSW
Nov 2006 Co-convenor, half-day seminar : Perinatal Psychiatry Updates, St John of God Health Services, Burwood, NSW (Sponsor: Sanofi-Aventis)
Oct 2006 Convenor, half-day seminar : 2nd Annual Evolutionary Psychiatry Seminar, St John of God Health Services, Burwood, NSW (Sponsors: AstraZeneca, Wyeth)
May 2006 Co-convenor, half-day seminar : Perinatal Psychiatry Updates, St John of God Health Services, Burwood, NSW (Sponsor: Organon)
Oct 2005 Co-convenor, half-day seminar : Perinatal Psychiatry Updates, St John of God Health Services, Burwood, NSW (Sponsor: Organon)
Oct 2005 Convenor, half-day seminar : Bringing the Why back into Psychiatry, St John of God Health Services, Burwood, NSW (Sponsors: AstraZeneca, Wyeth)
2005 - Nov 2010 Convening & chairing of CPD dinner lectures, St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW; annual speaker at Burwood and Richmond Hospital CPD - monthly event that I took pride in developing a high quality regular educational event for the medical community (GPs, psychiatrists, psychiatry registrars, psychiatry CMOs, allied health and medical and nursing students). I never missed one over the six years that I presided over this responsibility that I volunteered to conduct!
Jun 2000 Chairperson of seminar : Fatigue and other Somatic Syndromes by Prof Ian Hickie, Burwood, NSW
28 Jul 2018 Attendance at “AADPA Conference”, Sydney, NSW
13-15 Oct 2017 Attendance at “The AMA (NSW) Leadership in Health Conference”, Manly NSW
1-4 May 2017 Attendance at RANZCP Congress, Adelaide, SA
15 Mar 2017 Attendance at “The Impact of Untreated Adult ADHD”, Dr Hugh Morgan, Sydney NSW (Sponsor: Shire)
15 Oct 2016 Attendance at PsyAcademy III “Optimising Care in Schizophrenia: Can More Be Done?”, Sydney, NSW
2-4 Sept 2016 Attendance at RANZCP Faculty of Psychotherapy Conference 2016 “A Fine Balance: Maintaining a Balance between Despair and Hope in Psychiatric Organisations”, Sydney, NSW
8-12 May 2016 Attendance at RANZCP Congress 2016 “Regional Challenges Worldwide Influence”, Hong Kong, China
26 Feb 2016 Attendance at Chronic Disease & Mental Health Symposium, Sydney, NSW
6 Nov - 7 Nov 2015 Attendance at the Australasian Society for Bipolar and Depressive Disorders 2015 Conference, Sydney, NSW
30 Sept - 2 Oct 2015 Attendance at RANZCP Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2015 Conference in conjunction with Pacifika Medical Association and Vanuatu Medical and Dental Association: “Culture, Community and Healing: child, youth and family mental health in the Pacific“, Port Vila, Efate, Vanuatu
29-31 May 2015 Attendance at AMA National Congress “Medicare -- Midlife Crisis?”, Brisbane, QLD
3-7 May 2015 Attendance at RANZCP Congress 2014 “Measurers and Thinkers”, Brisbane, QLD
23 Feb 2015 Attendance at RANZCP CASP Workshop “Presentation of Results of AMA/ASMOF/RANZCP Survey of NSW Psychiatrists working in the public sector”, Rozelle, NSW
11-15 May 2014 Attendance at RANZCP Congress 2014 “Evolving Landscapes in Mental Health: Interface and Interaction”, Perth, WA
28 Feb-1 Mar 2014Attendance at Special Interest Group in Youth Mental Health Conference, “YMHO2 Optimising Outcomes”, Brisbane, Qld (speakers included: Stephen Stathis on gender dysphoria, Patrick McGorry, Geoff Waghorn, Michael Daubney & Peta Briner)
27 Feb 2014 Attendance at lecture “An Overview of ECT”, Drs Samson Roberts & “Anaesthesia & Anaesthesia Issues of ECT” Dr Harry Wark, Sydney Clinic CPD Evening, Coogee, NSW
21-30 May 2013 Attendance at RANZCP Congress 2013 “Aspirations and Achievements”, Sydney, NSW
27 Nov 2012 Attendance at ECT training seminar, SJOG Hospital, Sydney
20 Nov 2012 Attendance at Young Adult Mental Health workshop, BMRI, Camperdown, Sydney
12 Nov 2012Attendance at lecture, “Mentalisation Therapy for Perinatal Mental Disorders”, Ms Margaret Stuchbery, PIPSIG meeting, Balmain, NSW
7 May 2012Attendance at lecture, ADHD - Treatment Dilemmas, Dr Hugh Morgan, North Sydney, NSW
7-8 Nov 2011Attendance at Mind and Its Potential Conference, Sydney, NSW
13 Sep 2011Attendance at lecture “Circadian Rhythms Depression & Valdoxan”, Dr Elizabeth Scott & Prof Philip Boyce, Sydney, NSW (Sponsor: Servier)
10 Aug 2011Attendance at Psychotherapy with Psychotic Patients seminar, Sydney, NSW
25-28 Aug 2011Attendance at World Congress for Psychotherapy, Sydney, NSW
22-24 Jul 2011Attendance at Section of Psychotherapy Conference, Melbourne, Vic (Keynote speaker: Prof Glen Gabbard)
9 Jun 2011Attendance at opening night performance of “Bill W and Dr Bob”, a play about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, produced by Dr Stephen Jurd, written by Dr Samuel Shem, Redfern, NSW
2 Jun 2011Attendance at RANZCP NSW Branch Annual Dinner, Soirée and Educational Meeting, Camperdown, NSW; Guest speaker: Dr Samuel Shem; Dr Peter Hansen awarded NSW Branch Meritorious Services Award (nominated by me)
Mar 2011Attendance at Inaugural Medicine in Addiction Conference (Section of Addiction Psychiatry and College of GP Addiction Medicine SIG), Melbourne, Vic
Nov 2010Attendance at 2010 RANZCP Section of Psychotherapy Conference, Coogee, NSW
Oct 2009 Attendance at CPD lecture “Psychodynamic approaches to the depressed adolescent”, Ms Margaret Berkovic, St John of God Hospital, Burwood, NSW
1-3 Oct 2009 Attendance at The Australasian Marcé Society 2009 Conference, Melbourne
Sept 2008 Attendance at The International Marcé Society 2008 Conference : Policy, Planning and Effective Delivery of Perinatal Mental Health Care, Manly, Sydney
Aug 2008 Attendance at workshop : Complex PTSD and Complicated Trauma, by Robert Grant and Prof Bryanne Barnett, St John of God Hospital Burwood, Sydney
Oct 2006 Attendance at conference : RANZCP Section of Psychotherapy Bi-National Conference, Sydney, NSW
Sept 2006 Attendance at conference : 6th International Congress of Neuropsychiatry, Darling Harbour, Sydney
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
May 2005 Attendance at conference : The American Psychiatric Association's Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Mar 2005 Attendance at lecture : Clinical Intervention in Post-partum Mood Disorders (Prof Scott Stuart MD, University of Iowa), Annandale, NSW (Sponsor: Wyeth Neuroscience)
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
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)
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
Sept 2003 Attendance at lecture : Boxing Reboxetine Edronax Explicated, Sydney
July 2003 Attendance at lecture : Life Cycle Depression in Women, Sydney, NSW
Mar 2003 Attendance at conference : The 13th Modern Management of Psychoses Conference, Sydney, NSW
Oct 2002 Attendance at conference : 15th Congress of the European College of Neuro-psychopharmacology (ECNP), Barcelona, Spain
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)
March 2002 Attendance at conference : Neuroscience in Action : From Clinical Dilemma to Therapeutic Breakthrough, Hamburg, Germany (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
Nov 2000 Attendance at conference : Modern Management of Psychoses Workshop - Exploring Guidelines for the Treatment of Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses, Port Douglas, QLD
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)
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
2015 - 2017 Peer review meeting, USpace St Vincent’s Private Hospital, NSW - monthly group meeting with colleague psychiatrists with case presentation format followed by discussion
26-27 Nov 2014 Completed TMS course convened by Prof Paul Fitzgerald with obtainment of Certificate in Transmagnetic Stimulation, Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc), Melbourne, VIC
2013 - 2015 Peer review / supervision meeting, Lawson Clinic, Gordon, NSW - monthly group supervision meeting with colleague psychiatrists characterised by presentation format followed by supervision discussion by Prof Gordon Parker
2013 - 2015 Peer review meeting, Lawson Clinic, Gordon, NSW - monthly group meeting with colleague psychiatrists with case presentation format followed by discussion
May 2012 Completed Opiate Treatment Accreditation Course - approved prescriber of methadone and buprenorphine for purposes of treating opioid dependent individuals in NSW (under Section 28A of the NSW Poisons & Therapeutic Goods Act 1966)
Apr 2011 Opiate Treatment Accreditation Course, Sydney, NSW - workshop
2008-2013 Registrar individual supervision, Burwood, NSW - weekly individual meeting with occasional lectures (by me) and case presentation by Registrar followed by discussion
2006 - Individual supervision from NSWIPP senior psychoanalyst supervisor, Rose Bay, NSW - fortnightly individual supervision with case presentation format
2005 - Peer review meeting (Perinatal & Infant Psychiatry Special Interest Group), Balmain, NSW - bi-monthly group meeting with colleague perinatal psychiatrists with case presentation format and lectures followed by discussion
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 centres for comprehensive patient care, research and education in the fields of behavioural, psychiatric, and addiction disorders.
2005-2010 CMO & Registrar supervision, Burwood, NSW - weekly group meeting with occasional lectures (by me) and case presentation by CMOs and Registrars followed by discussion
2005-2007 Peer review meeting / GP supervision, Burwood, NSW - monthly group meeting with lectures (by me) and case presentation by GPs followed by discussion
2003-2005 Peer review meeting (Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group), Balmain, NSW - bi-monthly group meeting with colleague psychiatrists with case presentation format and lectures followed by discussion
1999-2012 Peer review meeting, Burwood, NSW - 2x annual (min.) meeting with colleague SJOG Burwood Hospital psychiatrists with case presentation format followed by discussion
1999-2012 Peer review meeting, Randwick, Pymble & Dee Why, NSW - bi-monthly group meeting with colleague psychiatrists with case presentation format followed by discussion
1995-1999 Study group meeting, Rozelle, NSW - monthly group meeting with written topic presentation format followed by discussion
1994-1999 Psychotherapy supervision, Dr Ray Cooper & Dr Isla Lonie, Rozelle & Camperdown, NSW - weekly group meeting with case presentation format followed by discussion
1999 - Private peer review group, Narrabeen NSW
July 2017 Ong LTC, Galambos G and Brown D (2017) Primary Sjogren’s Syndrome Associated With Treatment-Resistant Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder. Front. Psychiatry 8:124. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00124
11 June 2014 The Erosion of Psychiatrist-Patient Confidentiality by Subpoenas, John Levy, Gary Galambos and Yvonne Skarbek, Australian Psychiatry, August 2014; vol. 22, 4: pp. 332-336
22 May 2013 Poster Presentation “The Psychoeducative Model: A Blueprint to Engineer Engagement & Collaborative Care of Patients with Mental Disorders”, RANZCP Congress 2013, Sydney, NSW
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
Nov 1999 Presentation of Poster (A Doctors' Mental Health Internet Resource) at conference : National Doctors' Health Conference, Brisbane, QLD
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)
May 1999 Dissertation: Developing a Doctors’ Mental Health Internet Web site Resource