Dr Vibhay Raykar

MD, MRCPsych, FRANZCPsych

Clinical Director, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Goulburn Valley Health, Shepparton, Australia

Vibhay Raykar is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and clinical director of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) program at Goulburn Valley (GV) Health, a large regional hospital, located in Shepparton, Victoria. He is also an honorary fellow at the Rural Health Academic Centre, University of Melbourne. He was awarded the ZERO TO THREE fellowship (class of 2014-16) and is a member of the Academy of ZERO TO THREE fellows and its Leadership Development Initiative (LDI) Advisory Council. He trained in the 1st Child Parent Psychotherapy course conducted by Julie Lareau in Adelaide in 2016-17.

Dr Raykar completed his medical and basic psychiatry training at the University of Mumbai, India. He travelled to UK to pursue specialist training in child psychiatry and obtained the Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych), UK. He moved to Australia in 2008 and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) and member of its Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists. He trained in Infant Mental Health at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and has been instrumental in setting up an infant mental health team within the CAMHS program at GV Health and the GV IMH Network Group.

He works with infants, children, adolescents and parents with mental illnesses in a culturally diverse rural setting with considerable social disadvantage and a large immigrant population. His other interests include service and staff development, psychotherapy and personality disorders. He has a wealth of experience working in both rural and urban settings of three diverse health systems namely India, UK and Australia. He is passionate about his work and loves travel, photography and cycling.