Curriculum Vitae

Employment

Waitemata District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand
    •    Consultant Psychiatrist 

    •    March 2019 – present

    •    Infant Mental Health Service (Mātua Tūhonongā)
, 0.4 FTE
    •    Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, helping families with children between birth and 4 years old.

Private practice
    •    Consultant Psychiatrist 

    •    November 2019 – present

    •    currently working from Illumen, Grey Lynn, 0.2 FTE

Counties Manukau District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand
    •    Consultant Psychiatrist 

    •    February 2009 - March 2019 

    •    Infant Mental Health Service (Whakatupu Ora)

    •    Contributed to setting up the service, at the time the only dedicated infant mental health service in the country

Waitemata District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand
    •    Consultant Psychiatrist 

    •    April 2006 – February 2009 

    •    Maternal Mental Health and Child Mental Health 

    •    Also worked in Adult (Emergency, Consult-liaision, Crisis) and Adolescent Mental Health 


Counties Manukau District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand
    •    Consultant Psychiatrist 

    •    October 2005 - March 2006 

    •    Adult Community Mental Health

Training

PhD in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and Developmental Disorders
    •    September 2010 – April 2013 

    •    Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL), California, USA 

    •    Online training, 40% completed due to ICDL being unable to continue with the infant mental health component 


Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    •    August 2002 – July 2004 

    •    Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA 


General Psychiatry
    •    August 1999 – July 2002 

    •    Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Education

Medical School
    •    October 1990 – September 1997 

    •    University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania 

    •    Summer elective in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1996) 

    •    General grade 8.94, License grade 9.83 (out of 10.00) 


Masters of Science in Computer Science
    •    September 2000 – June 2005 

    •    Graduated from Portland State University, Oregon, USA 

    •    Specialized in Software Engineering 

    •    Sample classes: Bioinformatics (Project: PsychTrials), Artificial Life, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction

Specialist exams

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
    •    Oral examination - June 2005 

    •    Written examination - November 2003

Experience in psychotheray and reflective supervision

Supervising registrars for the psychoterapy writen case
Offering reflective supervision to clinicians working in the infant mental health team (2009 - present) 

Trained in several infant mental health interventions:
    •    Dyadic Developmental Practice (Level One and Level Two training): 2016 / 2017
    •    Circle of Security model and DVD programme
    •    Parent Child Interaction Therapy
    •    Watch, Wait, Wonder (attended introductory and advanced courses)
    •    Developmental, Individual-difference, Relationship-based (DIR) Floor time
Studied and practiced psychotherapy (adult, child and adolescent) during the psychiatry training (August 1999 - July 2004, USA):
    ◦    Psyhcodynamic psychotherapy with supervision from psychoanalytically trained supervisors
    ◦    Cognitive behavioural therapy
    ◦    Family therapy