Independent Medical Examiner (IME)

Dr. Nitin Dharwadkar, MBBS, ECFMG, FRANZCP, MD

Principal & Founder of MedLegalMD

Psychiatrist & Independent Medical Examiner (Medico-Legal) 

• Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Central Clinical School, Monash University

• Foundation Member - Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry , RANZCP

• IME & Impairment Assessor: WorkSafe Victoria

• Impairment Assessor: WorkCover Authority of NSW & Workcover Tasmania

• Impairment Assessor: Comcare, Australian Government

Experience

• IME & Impairment Assessor (Psychiatry), VWA/WorkSafe Victoria, Melbourne, Oct 1996 - Present

• State Council Representative, Australian Medical Association(AMA) Victoria, Melbourne, Mar 2016 - Present

• Impairment Assessor (Psychiatry), Comcare, Australian Government, Dec 2012 - Present

• lmpairment Assessor (Psychiatry), WorkCover Authority of NSW, Sydney, Oct 2011 - Present

• Foundation Member, Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry , RANZCP (Royal Australian New Zealand College of Psychiatrists), Melbourne, Sep 2011 - Present

• Impairment Assessor (Psychiatry), Workcover Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania,  Dec 2001 - Present

• Consultant Psychiatrist: Inpatient and Outpatient Psychiatry Services with a focus on "Medico-Legal Psychiatry", The Melbourne Clinic,  Melbourne,  Jan 2000 - Present

• Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Monash University,  Melbourne, Jun 1995 - Present

• TMS Director, The Melbourne Clinic Healthscope, Richmond, Feb 2013 - Jul 2016