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Date
15 March 2025
11am - 1pm AEDT
Delivery
OnlineWe are excited to be hosting our annual PIF Introduction to Psychiatry Online Short Course on Saturday 15 March from 11 am-1 pm AEDT.
Other time zones: 8 am AWST/ 9.30 am ACST/ 10 am AEST/ 10.30 am ACDT/ 1 pm NZDT.
You are invited to register for this course by completing the pre-course survey by Monday 10 March. As part of the registration survey, you are welcome to indicate any topics that you would like to see covered in the short course, and we will try our best to include the most popular topics.
This live short course will allow you to gain further insights into a day/week in the life of a psychiatrist, cover a diverse range of psychiatry subspecialties, as well as different practice opportunities and the RANZCP training program from our trainees and psychiatrists. There will also be an opportunity to ask live questions in a 35-minute Q&A session towards the end of the course.
The course program and presenters' bios will be updated in the upcoming weeks.
The Zoom event link will be emailed to all registrants on Wednesday 12 March.
We are pleased to introduce our first speaker A/Prof Jonathan Lane, A/Prof Louise Nash and Dr Steven Blefari. Other speakers will be announced in the next couple of weeks.
Speakers
Associate Professor Jonathan Lane
A/Prof Lane, FRANZCP, MBBS (Hons), PhD, has been in the Army since 1989 and is also an Afghanistan veteran. He is a clinician in private practice, as well as the inaugural Chief Psychiatrist for the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (DVA); the Psychiatry Lead for the University of Tasmania School of Medicine; a Lieutenant Colonel in Australian Army Reserve; and a member of multiple national and State advisory boards. As a nationally recognised expert in his field, he is passionate about lived experience led, culturally informed and transdiagnostic interventions that have functional outcomes for the whole person rather than just a specific diagnosis.
A/Prof Lane, FRANZCP, MBBS (Hons), PhD, has been in the Army since 1989 and is also an Afghanistan veteran. He is a clinician in private practice, as well as the inaugural Chief Psychiatrist for the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (DVA); the Psychiatry Lead for the University of Tasmania School of Medicine; a Lieutenant Colonel in Australian Army Reserve; and a member of multiple national and State advisory boards. As a nationally recognised expert in his field, he is passionate about lived experience led, culturally informed and transdiagnostic interventions that have functional outcomes for the whole person rather than just a specific diagnosis.
Associate Professor Louise Nash
Associate Professor Louise Nash has worked in metropolitan, rural and remote Australia, most recently as the Clinical Director of the Kimberley Mental Health and Drug Service. She is also an academic at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney.
Her research includes doctors’ health, improving workplace culture, exploring innovative ways to provide mental health education and youth mental health. Her clinical interests include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and youth mental health.
She has been a member of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) NSW Branch Training Committee for 14 years and she sits on the Foundation Committee of RANZCP aiming to promote psychiatry research and improve mental health care within Australia, New Zealand and our neighbouring regions.
Associate Professor Louise Nash has worked in metropolitan, rural and remote Australia, most recently as the Clinical Director of the Kimberley Mental Health and Drug Service. She is also an academic at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney.
Her research includes doctors’ health, improving workplace culture, exploring innovative ways to provide mental health education and youth mental health. Her clinical interests include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and youth mental health.
She has been a member of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) NSW Branch Training Committee for 14 years and she sits on the Foundation Committee of RANZCP aiming to promote psychiatry research and improve mental health care within Australia, New Zealand and our neighbouring regions.
Dr Steven Blefari
Steve is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the leading founder of Rural Psychiatry Training WA (RPTWA) for Western Australia Country Health Services (WACHS), located in the South West.
Steve completed his Fellowship in NSW and commenced working as a CAMHS Consultant with WACHS in 2020. Having a strong passion for enabling junior doctors to train in a rural setting, Steve led the establishment of RPTWA as RANZCPs first dedicated rural psychiatry training program.
As the RPTWA DOT, Steve provides support and guidance to trainees, supervisors, and Assistant DOTs to ensure the program continues to attract, train, and retain psychiatrists in country WA. Steve is a member of the WA Branch Training Committee and is involved in a number of RANZCP committees and working groups.
Steve is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the leading founder of Rural Psychiatry Training WA (RPTWA) for Western Australia Country Health Services (WACHS), located in the South West.
Steve completed his Fellowship in NSW and commenced working as a CAMHS Consultant with WACHS in 2020. Having a strong passion for enabling junior doctors to train in a rural setting, Steve led the establishment of RPTWA as RANZCPs first dedicated rural psychiatry training program.
As the RPTWA DOT, Steve provides support and guidance to trainees, supervisors, and Assistant DOTs to ensure the program continues to attract, train, and retain psychiatrists in country WA. Steve is a member of the WA Branch Training Committee and is involved in a number of RANZCP committees and working groups.
