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Associate Professor Denise Riordan
Denise completed her medical training in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, and her psychiatry training in Newcastle and Manchester. She completed the MRCPsych in 1993 and her CCST in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 1995. Having worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist (CAMHS) in the NHS, she had a sabbatical in Australia with her family in 2002-2003 where she worked at The Kids Hospital Westmead. During this time she also completed a pathway to obtain the FRANZCP.
On returning to the UK, she worked as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the NHS, and was also the Director of Training for the Northern Deanery of Post Graduate Medical Training. She and her family returned to Australia in 2007. Denise has worked mainly in the ACT including as Clinical Director for CAMHS (2009 – 2016), and Chief Psychiatrist for the ACT (2018 - 2021, and as the Director of Clinical Services for Mental Health Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services. Between 2016 – 2018 Denise was the Chief Psychiatrist in the Northern Territory. During this time and until 2024 she was also the independent chair of the Clinical Governance and Professional Practice Committee of Territory Families in eth NT – an independent body overseeing some of the extensive reform agenda that grew out of the Royal Commission into Child Protection and Youth Detention in the NT.
Denise continues to have an active role in training and education. She is a Clinical Associate Professor at ANU, the Director of Advanced Training for CAMHS in ACT, has previously been the Chair of the ACT Branch Training Committee, and has longstanding involvement with the Substantial Comparability Pathway to Fellowship of which she has been Chair for the last 5 years. She takes a lead role in training supervisors and assessors on that pathway. She is also the current Chair of the ACT Branch of the RANZCP.
Her professional interests include service and staff development, and she is committed to the development of high-quality accessible services. She maintains an active role as a child and adolescent psychiatrist and is keen to ensure that services support psychiatrists to work at the top of their scope of practice, and have a voice in how services develop.
Denise enjoys time out walking – including with Casey – a semi-retired Delta Therapy dog!
Denise completed her medical training in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, and her psychiatry training in Newcastle and Manchester. She completed the MRCPsych in 1993 and her CCST in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 1995. Having worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist (CAMHS) in the NHS, she had a sabbatical in Australia with her family in 2002-2003 where she worked at The Kids Hospital Westmead. During this time she also completed a pathway to obtain the FRANZCP.
On returning to the UK, she worked as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the NHS, and was also the Director of Training for the Northern Deanery of Post Graduate Medical Training. She and her family returned to Australia in 2007. Denise has worked mainly in the ACT including as Clinical Director for CAMHS (2009 – 2016), and Chief Psychiatrist for the ACT (2018 - 2021, and as the Director of Clinical Services for Mental Health Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services. Between 2016 – 2018 Denise was the Chief Psychiatrist in the Northern Territory. During this time and until 2024 she was also the independent chair of the Clinical Governance and Professional Practice Committee of Territory Families in eth NT – an independent body overseeing some of the extensive reform agenda that grew out of the Royal Commission into Child Protection and Youth Detention in the NT.
Denise continues to have an active role in training and education. She is a Clinical Associate Professor at ANU, the Director of Advanced Training for CAMHS in ACT, has previously been the Chair of the ACT Branch Training Committee, and has longstanding involvement with the Substantial Comparability Pathway to Fellowship of which she has been Chair for the last 5 years. She takes a lead role in training supervisors and assessors on that pathway. She is also the current Chair of the ACT Branch of the RANZCP.
Her professional interests include service and staff development, and she is committed to the development of high-quality accessible services. She maintains an active role as a child and adolescent psychiatrist and is keen to ensure that services support psychiatrists to work at the top of their scope of practice, and have a voice in how services develop.
Denise enjoys time out walking – including with Casey – a semi-retired Delta Therapy dog!
