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Australian first as icare begins new fellowship
icare has partnered with the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry and the Northern Sydney Local Health District to establish three psychiatry fellowships in brain injury for advanced trainees. Click...
Second cohort of iBIPP fellows is announced for 2020
Insurance and Care NSW (icare) has extended its successful Psychiatry Fellowship program by establishing its second cohort with four new psychiatry fellowships. Click here for the full article.
The launch of the second iBIPP cohort in February 2020
Last week icare launched the 2020 Psychiatry Fellowship! Funded by icare Foundation, the fellowship aims to increase the capacity of specialist mental health services in NSW to support people with a brain injury. Congratulations to our new psychiatry fellows! Click...
The positive impact having access to a specialised brain injury psychiatrist had on a young lady and her family’s life
"Normally, people had this sort of injury if they were in a coma or if they were declared dead." That is what Alex Walker was told when she woke up in Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital. Click here for the full article.
icare funds fellowship studies into brain injuries
NSW state insurer icare is funding three psychiatry fellowships for advanced trainees to study brain injury. Click here for the full article.
Royal Rehab’s feature of Dr Jodi Cartoon
In exciting news, Senior Psychiatry Registrar Dr Jodi Cartoon has been announced as the inaugural recipient of an Australian-first psychiatry fellowship in brain injury for advanced trainees. Click here for the full article.
Hear from our Care participants on what independence means for them
icare launched a new video recognising the importance of improving quality of life and independence for our Care participants. Click here for the full article.
Into our second year – the iBIPP
The icare Brain Injury Psychiatry Fellowship program, funded by icare Foundation, was set up in 2019 to build capacity of psychiatrists treating people with brain injuries and mental health conditions. Click here for the full article.
Dr Jodi Cartoon joins the Northern Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service – Ballina
Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service (NBIRS) on site this month to conduct the first Brain Injury Psychiatry clinic. Clinics will be held here quarterly for the service. Dr Cartoon is a Psychiatrist specialising in brain injury. She is employed at Royal North Shore...
Meet icare Brain Injury Psychiatry Fellow Dr Kiran Lele
Dr Kiran Lele is a Psychiatry Fellow at Westmead Hospital in Western Sydney. In February 2020 he commenced the icare brain injury psychiatry fellowship program, funded by the icare Foundation. Click here for the full article.
Meet icare Brain Injury Psychiatry Fellow Dr Abirami Ratnagopal
Dr Abirami Ratnagopal is a Neuropsychiatry advanced trainee at the Calvary Mater Hospital in Newcastle and has regular clinics at the Hunter Brain Injury Service. Click here for the full article.
Meet icare Brain Injury Psychiatry Fellow Dr Bernard Myers
Dr Bernard Myers is a consultation-liaison psychiatry advanced trainee at Royal North Shore Hospital and Royal Rehab in Ryde, Sydney. Click here for the full article.
Meet icare Brain Injury Psychiatry Fellow Dr Daniel Smoothy
Dr Daniel Smoothy is a Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Advanced Trainee working in the Liverpool and Wollongong area. Click here for the full article.
icare hosts inaugural Brain Injury Psychiatry Symposium
On Friday 20 November 2020 the icare Brain Injury Psychiatry Program (iBIPP) hosted its first Brain Injury Psychiatry Symposium to share new developments in the area of brain injury and psychiatry. Click here for the full article.