Venkata Ramakrishnan
Psychiatrist

MBBS, MD, FRANZCP

Location Icon Location
Telehealth

Language Icon Languages
English, Tamil

Areas of Expertise

  • Mood & Anxiety Disorders
  • Substance-Related Disorders
  • Personality Disorders
  • Bipolar Disorders
  • Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
  • OCD

Accreditations

  • PIRS

Services

  • COMCARE
  • DVA
  • Fitness for Duty
  • Life/TDP/IP
  • Medical Negligence
  • ORAMS
  • Public Liability
  • Seafarers
  • Wrongs Act
  • Workers Compensation
    • ACT - Permanent Injury Assessment, Independent Medical Examination
    • NSW - WPI Assessment, Independent Medical Examination
    • NT - Permanent Impairment Assessment, Independent Medical Examination
    • SA - Independent Medical Examination
    • TAS - Independent Medical Examination
    • VIC - Independent Medical Examination
    • WA - Independent Medical Examination
  • Motor Vehicle
    • ACT - Permanent Impairment Assessment, Independent Medical Examination
    • NT - Independent Medical Examination
    • QLD - Permanent Impairment Assessment, Independent Medical Examination
    • TAS - Permanent Impairment Assessment, Independent Medical Examination
    • WA - Permanent Impairment Assessment, Independent Medical Examination

Qualifications

  • MBBS, MD, FRANZCP

Current Clinical Role/s

  • Senior Staff Specialist Psychiatrist / Unit Director, Cumberland Hospital, NSW

Previous Clinical Roles

  • MD, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, India

Academic Appointments

  • Member of the Safe Use of Medicines committee, Local Health District, NSW
  • Assistant Professor, Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, India
  • Chair of Electro - Convulsive Therapy (ECT), Clinical Governance Committee, NSW

Special Mention

  • Publisher of: Holding The Space, Protecting the Personal. Australasian Journal of Psychotherapy 36(1): 8-21.
  • Presented: Australian Doctor Mental Health Seminar in 2010 & 2014
  • Publisher of: Electroencephalogram pattern in obsessive - compulsive disorder
  • Publisher of: Frontal meningioma presenting with psychiatric symptoms
  • Publisher of: Two cases of olfactory reference syndrome responding to an atypical antipsychotic and SSRI
  • Publisher of: Ramakrishnan VS, Kim YK, Yung W, Mayur P. ECT in the time of the COVID - 19 pandemic.
  • Publisher of: Venkatasubramanian R et al. A Randomized Double - Blind Comparison of High and Low dosage folic acid. J of