Dr Harte is a medical graduate of Trinity College Dublin and completed his post graduate psychiatry training in the United Kingdom and in Australia. He holds fellowship of both the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK) and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. Dr Harte is also an Accredited Member of the Faculty of Addictions Psychiatry (RANZCP). In addition to addiction psychiatry, Dr Harte has an interest in gender and sexuality. He is the immediate past president of AusPATH (Australian Professional Association for Trans Health) and is a past director of the Monash Gender Clinic. Dr Harte is an Honorary Senior Clinical Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne. He is also a member of the Victorian Mental Health Tribunal. Dr Harte has published in the scientific literature and has been a keynote speaker at scientific meetings both nationally and internationally.  

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. 

Associate Professor Mahesh Jayaram trained initially in London and Leeds (UK) and completed his Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2004. He then worked as a consultant in the NHS for 7 years prior to moving to Melbourne in 2013 and obtained his Fellowship with RANZCP. In addition to his clinical role, he works as Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne where he is the coordinator for all Graduate Courses within the Department of Psychiatry. 

Dr Matthew Kang completed advanced training in Aged Psychiatry, CL psychiatry, and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT). Dr Kang is also a Lecturer and PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne and is involved in clinical research.

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.

Dr David Leonard graduated from Medicine in Sydney and trained in Psychiatry in UK (London and Edinburgh) returning to Melbourne to work in leadership and educational roles in public psychiatry before coming to Ramsay Clinic Albert Road, formerly known as Albert Road Clinic, 20 years ago. Dr Leonard has had a number of academic positions at Melbourne and Monash universities and has been a member of the Professorial Unit here at RCAR during his time here. He has focused on complex PTSD and in particular dissociative disorder. Dr Leonard has researched, lectured and published in this area. He is currently semi-retired but is providing a consultation service for people with complex PTSD and dissociative disorder. Dr Leonard can provide short term treatment, including, inpatient treatment to people with these disorders. 

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. 

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.