Dr Melissa White

Dr Melissa White BA (Hons I); MBBS; FRANZCP; Cert. Child Adol. Psych. is a consultant psychiatrist and a Fellow of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP). She also holds the RANZCP Certificate of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr White was the Faculty of Arts Valedictorian of The University of Queensland for her graduating year in her humanities degree. She is a Senior Lecturer with the schools of medicine of both The University of Queensland and Griffith University. Dr White is a Court Appointed Examiner for the Mental Health Court Queensland.

Dr White sees children, adolescents and adults who are experiencing psychiatric and psychological difficulties. Dr White particularly enjoys providing individualised treatments to secure improved trajectories of psychological development to young people and their families. Dr White accepts referrals from specialist psychiatrists requiring an episode of in-patient treatment for their young patients and to whom their patients will return for continuation of their outpatient care.

Dr White's other interest is neuropsychiatry, a subspecialty area focusing on the psychiatric consequences of neurological problems. This includes seeing patients with conditions such as intellectual impairment, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Tourette’s syndrome and brain injury. She accepts outpatient referrals for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for patients with treatment-resistant depression.

In addition to her residency training and country service, Dr White completed 12 months of general surgical training and 6 months of general practice training before committing to a career in psychiatry. She maintains an active interest in medicine and surgery.

**Please note that if the patient is less than 18 years of age, Dr Melissa White requires an initial assessment appointment for the patient and a parent collateral history appointment. These appointments are scheduled back-to-back taking approximately 1.5 - 2 hours in duration.**

Please ask the GP / Specialist to issue a combined referral stating both the patient and parent/caregiver’s names and date of births or two separate referrals to assist with providing a Medicare rebate for both the young person’s initial assessment and for the parent/caregiver’s initial assessment.