Meet our panel of medical specialists

Associate Professor Ajeet Singh (MBBS(Melb), MPsych(Melb), MD(Melb), FRANZCP), an academic private psychiatrist with interests in mood disorders, pharmacogenetics, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and medical innovation. He is based at The Geelong Clinic, and teaches at Deakin Medical School. His research has focused on genetically-guided prescribing (pharmacogenetics) of antidepressants, particularly the role of the blood-brain-barrier. He is an academic member of the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) and member of the Genetic Tests in Psychiatry Taskforce, International Society of Psychiatric Genetics (ISPG). He has recently won awards in multiple start-up competitions, leading his team to win The Melbourne University Accelerator Contest in 2016 for his start-up CNSDose... read more »

Professor Roger Bartrop, is an academic psychiatrist, currently Professor of Mental Health, Blacktown – Mt Druitt Clinical School, University of Western Sydney, and Professor, Discipline of Psychiatry, Sydney Medical School-Northern at Adventist Hospital Clinical School. He trained in adult medicine, general pathology and paediatrics initially in Sydney and then undertook further paediatric training in London, before a late career change to consultation/liaison psychiatry in the London teaching hospitals. Further laboratory experience in some aspects of immunology and endocrinology followed his return to work at St Vincents Hospital, whilst completing his Doctorate of Medicine. He worked for 31 years in close partnership with general medical and surgical units in Sydney... read more »

Vladan has had medical education, psychiatric training and clinical teaching and research experience and career in the former Yugoslavia, United States and Australia. He is currently Associate Professor at Sydney Medical School, Consultant Psychiatrist and Head of the Academic Department of Psychiatry at Nepean Hospital. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Belgrade and University of Novi Sad... read more »