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Dr Astha Tomar
President-Elect (2023-2025)
Dr Astha Tomar is the President-Elect of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP). Her term as President-Elect began on 31 May 2023 and will conclude in May 2025 when she assumes the role as President until May 2027. She is Head of Youth Mental Health Services at Peninsula Health in Victoria and also works in private practice.
Dr Tomar completed MBBS in Delhi, India before moving to Aotearoa New Zealand and joined the RANZCP. She completed most of her training in Tauranga and Hamilton, New Zealand. Dr Tomar’s journey in Australia began in a Community Forensics team in Perth and she obtained Fellowship in Melbourne. She worked full-time in private practice for many years and continues to work there in a small capacity. Dr Tomar has now worked in the public system for many years, providing clinical care, governance, and leadership at team and service levels.
Before assuming the role of President-Elect, Dr Tomar was the Chair of the Victorian Branch Committee and leveraged this opportunity to reposition the College as a critical stakeholder at the State level, actively engaging with consumers, carers, and representing organizations, health departments, the Ministers’ Offices and related policy and decision-makers. She has been a member of a number of Victorian and Australian Government Committees including; the Mental Health Ministerial Advisory Committee, Mental Health Workforce Safety and Wellbeing Committee and, the Clinical Advisory Group, Evaluation of Better Access through the MBS initiative.
Dr Tomar has been deeply engaged with the College as a member of the Membership Engagement Committee, Gender Equity Working Group, Victorian Branch Racism Awareness Working Group and Members’ Advisory Council.
Dr Tomar is a passionate advocate for resource parity for MH in all settings- metropolitan, regional/ rural, public/ private sectors, at state and federal level across Australia and New Zealand. She believes an engaged membership base is essential to success of an organisation and in College playing a pivotal role in ensuring adequacy in the number and quality of psychiatrist specialists and sub-specialists to meet the needs of the communities.
She consistently strives for strong individual as well as system level leadership to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity in workplaces as well as broader communities, whether related to gender, sexuality, or culture, ensuring respect and fair opportunities for all.
Dr Tomar can be contacted via president-elect.ranzcp@ranzcp.org
Dr Astha Tomar is the President-Elect of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP). Her term as President-Elect began on 31 May 2023 and will conclude in May 2025 when she assumes the role as President until May 2027. She is Head of Youth Mental Health Services at Peninsula Health in Victoria and also works in private practice.
Dr Tomar completed MBBS in Delhi, India before moving to Aotearoa New Zealand and joined the RANZCP. She completed most of her training in Tauranga and Hamilton, New Zealand. Dr Tomar’s journey in Australia began in a Community Forensics team in Perth and she obtained Fellowship in Melbourne. She worked full-time in private practice for many years and continues to work there in a small capacity. Dr Tomar has now worked in the public system for many years, providing clinical care, governance, and leadership at team and service levels.
Before assuming the role of President-Elect, Dr Tomar was the Chair of the Victorian Branch Committee and leveraged this opportunity to reposition the College as a critical stakeholder at the State level, actively engaging with consumers, carers, and representing organizations, health departments, the Ministers’ Offices and related policy and decision-makers. She has been a member of a number of Victorian and Australian Government Committees including; the Mental Health Ministerial Advisory Committee, Mental Health Workforce Safety and Wellbeing Committee and, the Clinical Advisory Group, Evaluation of Better Access through the MBS initiative.
Dr Tomar has been deeply engaged with the College as a member of the Membership Engagement Committee, Gender Equity Working Group, Victorian Branch Racism Awareness Working Group and Members’ Advisory Council.
Dr Tomar is a passionate advocate for resource parity for MH in all settings- metropolitan, regional/ rural, public/ private sectors, at state and federal level across Australia and New Zealand. She believes an engaged membership base is essential to success of an organisation and in College playing a pivotal role in ensuring adequacy in the number and quality of psychiatrist specialists and sub-specialists to meet the needs of the communities.
She consistently strives for strong individual as well as system level leadership to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity in workplaces as well as broader communities, whether related to gender, sexuality, or culture, ensuring respect and fair opportunities for all.
Dr Tomar can be contacted via president-elect.ranzcp@ranzcp.org
