Dr Christopher Russo, Psychiatrist

Drs Davinder and Sumeet Kochar

Dr Alyssa Chan

Please note this service is limited to students and staff of the University of Melbourne.

Fax number: 03 9347 6684

The University of Melbourne - Health Service

Available by appointment only.
Department of Psychiatry

The Royal Melbourne Hospital

Available by appointment only. 
The Neuropsychiatry Unit provides a statewide inpatient (8 bed), outpatient and liaison neuropsychiatry service. A major role of the unit is to provide clinical and therapeutic input for referred patients who will usually have complex clinical problems, which range across psychiatry, neurology and general medicine. The Neuropsychiatry Unit provides a short stay, statewide and on occasions interstate, diagnostic assessment service.

The Unit offers multidisciplinary assessments for patients with psychiatric disorders including:

-- Atypical psychiatric syndromes or organic cerebral disorders;

-- Treatment resistant disorders and treatment complications; and

-- Atypical or early onset dementia and those with co-morbid medical and neurological disease.

Assessments are preformed combining services provided by consultant neuropsychiatrists, neuropsychiatry registrar and resident, neuropsychologists, sessional neurologists and specialist nursing staff, all whom are involved in twice weekly multidisciplinary inpatient team meetings.

Aims:
To provide assessment, recommendations for future care and on occasion, treatment for patients with complex psychiatric, neurological and medical problems.

Inner West Area Mental Health Service - John Cade Adult Acute Inpatient Unit

Neuropsychiatry service - multidisciplinary approach, with team members from the disciplines of neuropsychiatry, neuropsychology, occupational therapy, neurology, social work and specialist mental health and general nursing, working in partnership to provide patients and their families with a comprehensive assessment, and management advice.

Referrals for assessments are accepted from throughout Victoria. As the only purpose-built inpatient facility of its type in the region, the Neuropsychiatry Unit may also accept referrals from other sites interstate and internationally.

Royal Melbourne Hospital - Neuropsychiatry Unit

Dr Peter Puszet

Additional Info: Page Hospital Chaplains Helen Parker or Judy Goods.
Alternative contact Genetic Counselling (03) 9344 2121 

The Royal Women's Hospital

Services for young people aged 15-24 years

Orygen Youth Health

Services including psychiatric assessment and treatment of mental illness in young people aged 15-24 years

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