Dr Rhonda Buskell

Consultant – Liaison Psychiatrist; Psychiatrist Member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal

Dr Rhonda Buskell is a consultant psychiatrist with twenty years of tribunal experience – previously as a part-time professional member of the NSW Guardianship Tribunal and currently as a Psychiatrist member of the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal. Prior to training in psychiatry, she specialised in rehabilitation medicine, focusing on neurological conditions and traumatic brain injury. Subsequently, she worked for more than 25 years as a staff specialist Consultation-Liaison psychiatrist at Nepean Hospital then Westmead Hospital. This was work at the intersection of medicine and psychiatry, providing biopsychosocial assessment and psychiatric care to patients of medical and surgical teams and the emergency department, including both voluntary and involuntary patients. In addition to working on the MHRT, she is currently appointed as a VMO to the Nepean Blue Mts LHD Voluntary Assisted Dying Service, assessing the capacity and eligibility of individuals requesting access to VAD. She has an interest in ethical aspects of practice, neurological and cognitive impairment, and the intersection of medical illness and mental and behavioural disorders.