Associate Professor Rob Selzer

Rob graduated from Monash University MBBS in 1987, having trained at Prince Henry’s Hospital and The Alfred. Following graduation he stayed at the Alfred where he began physician training, spending his final year there working in the Gastroenterology Unit.

Around this time, The Centre for Adolescent Health was just starting at the Royal Children’s Hospital. The new speciality, with its focus on the integration of psychological and biological issues, drew Rob in and he spent the next four years there, completing his FRACP and PhD in the area. He became interested in the psychological aspects of adolescence , switching career paths and entering Child and Adolescent Psychiatry training and eventually completing his FRANZCP at The Alfred in 2002.

That year Rob helped establish The Alfred Primary Mental Health Team, whose mission is to  engage local GPs by  providing education and primary and secondary consultation. The team also developed a research arm focussing on communication between health profession groups and between those groups and health service consumers.

 In 2008 Rob joined Monash University to help redevelop undergraduate psychiatry placements. The following year he took up the Directorship of Undergraduate Medical Education at the School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine. And later the same year he accepted the Directorship of the Medical Student Programs at The Alfred. Rob aims to take medical education into the 21^st century through engaging clinicians, developing new teaching technologies and by spreading the joys of teaching.