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
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
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
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
• Oral examination - June 2005
• Written examination - November 2003
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