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A/Prof Raju Lakshmana

MBBS, MD (PSYCH), FRANZCP, AFRACMA

A/Prof Raju Lakshmana

Psychiatry, General Adult Psychiatry

A/Prof. Lakshmana is a General Adult Psychiatrist with areas of clinical interest being inpatient psychiatry, perinatal psychiatry, telehealth, collaborative care with General Practitioners , Specialists and other primary care practitioners, and ECT. He has been in leadership roles in mental health since 2003 and has keen interest in service delivery models, consumer participation in mental health and mental health policy. He has completed his Masters in Health Administration in 2010 to complement his work.

He also works as the Director of Training for the Victorian Specialist International Medical Graduates (SIMGs) and as Additional Director of Psychiatry with Goulburn Valley Health. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor with Oceania University of Medicine and a tenured Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry with the Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne. 

Dr Lakshmana has worked in broad range of clinical settings and has assisted in developing clinical guidelines for management of complex clinical situations and use of certain treatments in mental health.  He is also actively involved with undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and has published in scientific peer reviewed journals. 

Dr Lakshmana is committed to community having timely access to mental health care and prioritizes appointments for new assessments (referred under MBS item 291) and is open to bulk billing for regional/ rural patients for telehealth appointments.

Special interests include inpatient psychiatry, perinatal psychiatry, telehealth, collaborative care with General Practitioners , Specialists and other primary care practitioners, and ECT

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The Melbourne Clinic

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130 Church Street, Richmond 3121