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.