Dr Kirsten Rowe
Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer
MBChB Stell, DPhil Oxford, FCPsych (SA), MMed (Psych) Stell
GCP 2025
Position
Psychiatrist and Lecturer, Division of General Adult Psychiatry
Registrar Training Committee: Electroconvulsive Therapy portfolio
Research Areas
Cognition and its determinants across the lifespan including childhood trauma, diet, PTSD, HIV; nonpharmacological
interventions for mental health including dialectical behavioural therapy, motivational interviewing, music therapy, exercise, dietary interventions, neurostimulation; health systems strengthening
Current Research Projects
Music experience substudy in the psilocybin OCD trial; early life trauma and executive function in adolescence; a retrospective cohort of ECT outcomes and tolerability at Valkenberg Hospital