Hunter Postgraduate Medical Institute
Novel Treatments for Treatment-Resistant Depression, Anxiety and PTSD
Free in-practice education for health professionals. Expert-led sessions with CPD approval and lunch provided.
Date: Thursday, 29 October 2026
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: Hamilton Doctors (60 Lindsay Street, Hamilton)
CPD: RACGP & ACRRM (1 hour)
Cost: Free
Lunch provided
About this meeting
- Small in-practice learning sessions
- Open to all health professionals
- Led by experienced specialists
- Certificate of attendance available on request
What you will learn
- Identify emerging treatment options for treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, and PTSD, including their clinical indications and referral pathways
- Apply current evidence to support informed discussions and management decisions for patients who may benefit from novel psychiatric therapies
Speaker
Dr Tarun Yadav, Consultant Psychiatrist & Addiction Specialist
Dr Tarun Yadav is currently a Staff Specialist at Drug and Alcohol Services in Newcastle and works in his private practice.
He is dedicated to mentoring the next generation of psychiatrists, having previously done so at the University of Queensland and currently at the University of Newcastle. He has been involved in teaching for over 10 years, having won an award for teaching in the Hunter New England Training in Psychiatry (HNET) network. He is also a RANZCP psychiatry training supervisor and examiner for Fellowship exams.
He specialises in addiction having participated in extensive training and also facilitated numerous training courses and workshops in this field.
Dr Yadav is an experienced Independent Medical Examiner, currently approved to undertake assessments for workers’ compensation cases in both New South Wales and Victoria. He is also an assessor for the Impaired Registrant Program at AHPRA.
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