Dr Linda Kader
Dr Linda Kader MBBS, MD (Psych), FRANZCP
Consultant Neuropsychiatrist
Dr Kader is a consultant at the Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit (AMHRU), Sunshine Hospital since 2006. She completed her basic medical training at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, in 1996. She specialised in Psychiatry from the same institute in 2001. Her MD thesis was a family study of 126 patients with schizophrenia using family history method. Dr Kader worked at ORYGEN Youth Health, Melbourne since 2002 where she has been involved in a research project in first-episode bipolar disorder. In 2005, She obtained her Fellowship with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. She was awarded Best Intern during her medical training and received a Travelling Fellowship from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK in 2001. She was the recipient of a Travelling Fellowship from the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry in 2007. Dr Kader's interests include early psychosis, neurobiology of schizophrenia, treatment-resistant disorders, bipolar disorder, psychiatric genetics, ethics, psychotherapy and consciousness. She is currently involved in clinical care of chronic psychiatric patients and pursues an active interest in research. She is involved in a project studying the effects of clozapine on thermoregulation and is also conducting research on non-biological modes of treatment, i.e, creative arts therapy, for the predominantly treatment resistant patient-group. She is an international collaborator with the University of Bergen, Norway looking into the impact of music therapy for chronic psychiatric patients. Dr Kader is an associate investigator with the Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank (ASRB). She is passionate about literature, music and cinema.