Psychiatrists and GPs are invited to join the RANZCP NT and the NT PHN for a CPD dinner event with Professor Anne Buist.

The RANZCP NT Branch and NT PHN welcomes Professor Anne Buist as our 2025 Travelling Scholar. Professor Buist will deliver her presentation, ‘Perinatal Mental Illness – Why it Matters’ in Alice Springs and Darwin.

Presenter

• Anne Buist is the Chair of Women’s Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, based at Austin Health, and has 35 years clinical and research experience in perinatal psychiatry including being director of mother-baby units for much of this time. Currently she oversees an outreach team that works to improve attachment and child outcomes where parent(s) have a severe mental illness.
• She was director of the beyondblue PND initiative which resulted in Australia wide screening for perinatal depression and anxiety. Other research includes child abuse as a risk factor for perinatal depression, and drugs in breastmilk.
• She continues to work with Protective Services and the legal system in cases of abuse, kidnapping, infanticide and murder.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this session participants will be able to:

1. Describe key risk factors for perinatal mental illness and explain the importance of timely identification and intervention.
2. Increase confidence in recognising and initiating appropriate management strategies for women experiencing perinatal mental illness.
3. Identify features of the parent–infant relationship that may be affected by parental mental illness and outline potential clinical concerns.
4. Summarise available online options to increase access to care and discuss key ethical considerations related to their use in practice.

Details

Alice Springs:

• Time: 5:30 – 8:30pm
• Date: Wednesday, 16th of July
• Venue: Doubletree Hilton, Alice Springs
• ALICE SPRINGS REGISTRATION

Darwin:

• Time: 6:30pm – 9:00pm
• Date: Thursday, 17th of July 2025
• Venue: Oaks Elan Hotel, 31 Woods Street, Darwin.
• DARWIN REGISTRATION

CPD

*One hour of self-reported CPD for RACGP & ACRRM members and other primary health professionals.
*As a general guide, one hour of active learning equates to one hour of CPD. It is the responsibility of the individual student to calculate how many hours of active learning have been completed. The hours of active learning estimated above should act as a guide to CPD hours.

Questions?

Please contact events@ntphn.org.au