Dr Tanya Ahmed

Summary

Dr. Tanya Ahmed is an adult psychiatrist with a background in public health, leadership, health communications and general practice.

As a public health clinician, she had early career experience working with Indigenous and refugee populations – her first experience of dealing with the impact and manifestations of trauma.

As a psychiatrist she has extensive experience across public and private inpatient and outpatient mental health services and is passionate about embedding trauma-informed care and humanizing mental health services. Her special interests include trauma, adolescent psychiatry, women’s mental health, eating disorders, and emergency psychiatry.

Dr. Ahmed holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Adelaide (1991), a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine from James Cook University (2002), and a Graduate Diploma of Health Services Management from the University of New South Wales (1998). She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (2013).

Currently, she is working in emergency psychiatry at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, as a VMO at a private trauma inpatient service at St John of God Hospital in Richmond NSW and is on the advisory board for an exciting new trauma hospital development in Sydney.

Speciality

Psychiatrist

Location

Ashfield

Accreditations