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Angelo Virgona
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Dr Angelo Virgona
Chair, NSW Branch
Psychiatrist since 1990; straddled many clinical and administrative roles across settings in peripatetic career: inner city, outer metropolitan, rural, private, public; ran city and rural mental health services; involved in establishment and running of various types of public sector units, two private psychiatric units, Headspace site, mental health access lines; also been in private practice, one way or another (general psychiatry, psychotherapy and medico-legal practice, mainly) since 1990; member of various NSW Health committees over the years.
Currently: Chair of NSW Branch of RANZCP, medical superintendent of Ramsay Clinic Macarthur in Campbelltown for 10 years; interested in mental health policy, generally; deplores current state of mental health funding and service delivery and interested in exploring innovative models to improve same, including better coordination of the private/public interface; specific interest in improving access to psychotherapy services for those with trauma-related disorders.
Psychiatrist since 1990; straddled many clinical and administrative roles across settings in peripatetic career: inner city, outer metropolitan, rural, private, public; ran city and rural mental health services; involved in establishment and running of various types of public sector units, two private psychiatric units, Headspace site, mental health access lines; also been in private practice, one way or another (general psychiatry, psychotherapy and medico-legal practice, mainly) since 1990; member of various NSW Health committees over the years.
Currently: Chair of NSW Branch of RANZCP, medical superintendent of Ramsay Clinic Macarthur in Campbelltown for 10 years; interested in mental health policy, generally; deplores current state of mental health funding and service delivery and interested in exploring innovative models to improve same, including better coordination of the private/public interface; specific interest in improving access to psychotherapy services for those with trauma-related disorders.
