Staff Profile

Career Summary

Biography

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Newcastle
• Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery, University of New South Wales
• Graduate Certificate in Child Psychology, Royal Australian & New Zealand Coll of Physicians

Research

Research keywords

• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Clinical Toxicology
• Deliberate self poisoning
• Delirium
• Driving safety after sedation
• Post stroke Depression
• Psycho-oncology
• Suicide

Research expertise

Professor Carter is currently the Senior Staff Specialist and Acting Director of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital, Waratah; and Conjoint Professor in Psychiatry in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Newcastle. He is also Principal Researcher in the Centre for Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health (CTNMH), University of Newcastle, Australia. He is Chair of the ITC Committee for the RANZCP.

His current areas of clinical and research interest include; deliberate self poisoning, suicide prevention, epidemiology of suicidal behaviours, attitudes to euthanasia, delirium, toxicology of psycho-active drugs, post-stroke depression, organ donation and psycho-oncology. He maintains an interest in Tourette’s Disorder, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in children and adolescents.

He is member of: the RANZCP (Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists), the ASPR (Australasian Society of Psychiatric Research), the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Strategic Planning Group (University of Washington), the AACAP (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry), the AAS (American Academy of Suicidology), the IASR (International Association of Suicide Researchers), Psycho-Oncology Cooperative Research Group (PoCoG), Australia and the CINP (Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum).

Languages

• English

Fields of Research

Teaching

Teaching keywords

• Deliberate self poisoning
• Delirium
• Depression
• Suicide

Teaching expertise

Undergraduate Medicine Course, University of Newcastle:

Years 2, 3 and 5: Clinical Supervisor/Registrar for Psychiatry Placements - 1981 to 1984.

Year 2: Tutor/Supervisor for "Family Attachment Program" - 1985 and 1986. (Clinical placement, supervision and written report).

Year 5: Lecturer for "Child Psychiatry and Child Psychiatrists" - 1986 (Fixed Resource Session).

Year 5: Lecturer for "Child Psychiatry" - 1988 (Fixed Resource Session).

Year 5: Examiner for Final Examination in Psychiatry - 1987 to 2011.

Year 1: Tutor for Professional Skills - 1990 to 1998.

Year 5: Clinical Supervisor - 1991 to 1995.

Years 2, 3 and 5: Elective Term Supervisor - 1991 to 1999.

Years 2 and 3: Lecturer - 1993 to 1998 (Fixed Resource Sessions)

Year 2 Lecturer - 2001 to current (Fixed Resource Sessions – Psychopharmacology of Depression and Suicide Prevention)

Year 4: Clinical Supervisor, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry - 1993 to 2011.

Year 3 elective supervisor – 2001, 2004.

Year 5 elective supervisor – 2001

Year 3 – Health equity selective supervisor (HES) – 2004 to current.

Year 4 – Lecturer Fixed Resource Sessions – Delirium, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome and Serotonin Syndrome – 2006 - to current

Year 1 – Lecture Fixed Resource Sessions - Adolescence & Suicide – 2007 to current

Year 4 – Supervisor Longitudinal task (research protocol development) – 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012

Year 5 – Supervisor Clinical Placement – 2012 to current

Postgraduate Psychiatry:

Lecturer in Postgraduate Theoretical Program, Newcastle, NSW – (1985 to current).

Supervisor for Trainee Psychiatrists (Child Psychiatry Placement), Newcastle, NSW – (1987 to 1996).

Psychotherapy Supervisor for Trainee Psychiatrists, Newcastle, NSW – (1987 to 1992).

Supervisor for Trainee Child Psychiatrists, Faculty of Child Psychiatry, RANZCP – (1988 to 1992).

Supervisor for Trainee Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Placement, Newcastle, NSW – (1991 to current).

Supervisor for Advanced Training in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Newcastle. NSW – (2002 to current).

Lecturer, NSW Institute of Psychiatry (Rozelle and Parramatta), Postgraduate Theoretical Program – (1993 to 1999).

Lecturer to Masters of Clinical Psychology Course, Faculty of Psychology, University of Newcastle (1999 - 2000).

Lecturer to Masters of International Public Health Course, University of Sydney (2006)

Lecturer to Masters of International Public Health Course, University of Sydney (2008-2012)

Other Education:

Lectures given when requested to various nursing programs. (University of Newcastle, Inservice and Staff Development).

Lecturer to Inservice Training for School Counsellors and Early Childhood Teachers (1988-1990).

Lecturer to Inservice Training for Hunter Area Health Board Psychologists (1995).

Lecturer to Graduate Diploma in Drug and Drug and Alcohol Studies (1995).

Lecturer in Hunter Institute of Mental Health (various courses) Teaching Programs.

Lecturer to RANZCP and RCACGP accredited programs for General Practitioners (DGP and Insight).

Depression in Primary Care: A Workshop for General Practitioners. Educational Program prepared for Hunter Institute of Psychiatry (1995).

Lecturer to Hunter Postgraduate Medical Institute (2000)

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

Research Dissertation Supervisor (RANZCP)

1. Dr Neil Port -1987

2. Dr Nick Bendit - 2002

3. Dr Ivan Safranko – 2003

Research Supervisor Research Higher Degree Students (University)

1. Gillian R Maddock, Honours Psychology Research Student. “Non-Suicidal And Suicidal Self-Injury In Borderline Personality Disorder: Characteristics And Predictors”. B.Psych. (Hons) Charles Sturt University (Co-Supervisor 2006). Passed 2006.

2. Gillian R Maddock Clinical Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, University of Newcastle. (Primary Supervisor : 2008-2009). Co-supervisor Prof Michael Startup. Passed 2011.

3. Tharraka Dassanayake PhD Candidate, “Evaluation of sedative drug overdose as a predictor of subsequent road traffic offenc