Dr Sophia Adams
Dr Sophia Adams MB BS MBioEth FRANZCP
Consultant Psychiatrist & PhD Student
Sophie Adams is a Consultation Liaison and Neuropsychiatrist working in general CL and in liaison with the Comprehensive Epilepsy Programme and brain tumor oncology services at Royal Melbourne Hospital. She is also a Research Fellow at the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre. Sophie graduated from the University of Melbourne in Medicine in 1997 and completed her internship at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. She subsequently worked as a psychiatric registrar in Ireland at St Brendan's Hospital in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Psychiatric training scheme before returning to Melbourne to complete her psychiatric training through the North Western Mental Health Service. She obtained her Masters of Bioethics at Monash University in 2001. She has previously done research in cognitive testing in multiple sclerosis and is now completing her Phd at The University of Melbourne on hippocampal morphometry in psychiatric morbidities of epilepsy with Dr Dennis Velakoulis and Associate Professor Terence O'Brien.