Inside the Mind - Practical Psychiatry for Primary Care

Activity Title: Inside the Mind: Practical Psychiatry for Primary Care

This session aims to enhance General Practitioners’ confidence and clinical capability in managing complex and evolving mental health presentations in primary care.

Through contemporary discussion of treatment‑resistant depression, addiction disorders, the conflictual history of psychiatric diagnosis and nosology, neurocognitive difficulties in older age, and women’s mental health, participants will develop a more nuanced understanding of diagnostic challenges, limitations of current classification systems, and evidence‑informed management strategies.

The session will support GPs to apply critical thinking, improve diagnostic formulation, and deliver patient‑centred, context‑aware mental health care across the lifespan within everyday general practice.

Psychiatrists Panel of Experts:

• Dr Chinna Samy, Medical Director of Pine Rivers Private Hospital

• Dr Peter Parry, Staff Specialist Psychiatrist

• Dr Jagannathan Alagarsamy, Consultant Psychiatrist

• Dr Joshua Flavell, Consultant Virtual Psychiatrist

• Dr Emile Touma, Consultant Psychiatrist

• Dr Paboda Ratnayake, Staff Specialist Psychiatrist

• Dr Sanjeev Ranjan, Consultant Psychiatrist

Topics to be discussed on the day:

• Treatment Resistant Depression

• Addiction Disorders

• Conflictual History of Psychiatric Diagnosis/Nosology

• Neurocognitive Difficulties in Older Age

• Women's Mental Health

  and more!

Also featuring

• Case discussions on anxiety disorders.

• Panel with the experts - Q and A from the delegates

Full agenda to come.

This activity 1574932 is RACGP approved.
for 6.5 EA + 3.0 RP + 5.0 MO.

Morning Tea, Lunch and Afternoon tea provided

Reserve your spot now!

Sponsored by:

• Avant Insurance

• Cutcher & Neale

• Lundbeck Pty Ltd

Invited guests

• Doctors Health in Queensland

If you have any questions relating to the event, please contact Robyn Carrington via the Contact Host Button below the map or call 0459 965 959 or email robyn.carrington@healthscope.com.au