Prof Garry Walter (Psychiatrist)
- Name
- Prof Garry Walter
- Occupation
- Psychiatrist
- Gender
- Male
Professor Garry Walter AM is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist of international renown. He is affiliated with The University of Sydney, where, among other roles, he has served as Professor at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, and, for over a decade, as Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He also has other professorial appointments in Australia and overseas. For several years, Professor Walter was Director of Thomas Walker Hospital (“Rivendell”), Australia’s flagship adolescent psychiatric hospital. For many years, he also served as Clinical Director of Child and Youth Mental Health Services at Royal North Shore Hospital and associated hospitals and community services in Northern Sydney Local Health District.
Professor Walter has served as International Editor-at-Large of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and was Editor of Australasian Psychiatry from 2001-2013. He has earned a number of key research awards and, as an author, he has published almost 400 papers on a range of topics in the mental health field. He has also delivered invited talks at major meetings and universities locally and abroad, including at Yale in 2011 to coincide with its centenary of child mental health research.
In his career, Professor Walter has provided advice and consultation to a variety of State, national and international bodies, including psychiatric associations, medical boards and governments, in relation to policies, program development and complex clinical, ethical and medicolegal cases. In 2016, he was also appointed to thepost of Foundation Medical Director of the Doctors’ Health Advisory Service.
Among other prizes, in 2009 Professor Walter was awarded a prestigious College Citation by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists for “a remarkable contribution to the College and the profession of psychiatry through his exceptional and tireless work as Editor of Australasian Psychiatry and as a leading investigator, educator, administrator and clinician”.
In 2012, Professor Walter was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to medicine.
Professor Walter has vast experience assessing, treating and providing expert advice about young people and adults with various mental health challenges. Respectful and compassionate, he is able to draw upon a range of therapies, including individual, parent, family and group counselling, as well as medication if required. Professor Walter is a strong believer in matching the therapy to the particular patient, rather than adopting a “one size fits all” approach. He enjoys working collaboratively with health professionals, schools, universities and other agencies.
- Affiliated Clinics
- North Shore Consulting rooms, Willoughby
- Total Health Care, Bondi Junction
- Medical Interventions
- Psychological therapies, medication where required. Both in-person and TeleHealth appointments available.
- Populations Treated
- Child, Adolescent, Adult
- Topics
- Anxiety, Depression, OCD, ADHD, other
Practice Locations
Sydney
- Total Health Care Bondi Junction
- Address
- Total Health Care - Tower1
Suite 1902 Lvl 19
520 Oxford Street
Bondi Junction NSW 2022
Australia
- Phone
- 02 8021 1260
- Fax
- 02 9386 1336
- Willoughby Consulting Rooms
- Address
- 4 181 High Street
Willoughby NSW 2068
Australia
- Phone
- 02 8287 1280
- Fax
- 02 9994 8008
