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Dr Johnson BA (French), BSc(Med), MBBS, MMed (Sleep) FRANZCP graduated in Arts/Medicine from the UNSW Australia in 2002. He completed his training in psychiatry in 2012 in various hospitals in the South East Sydney Local Health District including Prince of Wales, St Vincent’s and the Sutherland Hospitals, and further training in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry in 2015. He was awarded the NSW Institute of Psychiatry Fellowship in Intellectual Disability Mental Health in 2011 where he completed placements at The Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) and Kogarah Diagnostic and Assessment Service. Between 2012 and 2013 he did further training in Learning Disabilities with Southern Health NHS Trust in Oxford, United Kingdom. During that time, he did placements at the National Brain Injury Centre, St Andrew’s Hospital, Northampton, Northamptonshire and The National Epilepsy Society, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire.

On return to Australia, he worked as a Neuropsychiatrist/Liaison Psychiatrist at Wollongong Hospital establishing a neuropsychiatry clinic and a brain injury mental health clinic. He also created and ran a 3-session psychoeducation group programme for Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). He completed his Masters of Medicine (Sleep Medicine) in 2016 and his Doctor of Philosophy in Insomnia Disorder with short sleep duration in 2022.

Dr Johnson works as a Neuropsychiatrist two days a week at the Woolcock Clinic. His areas of interest include insomnia and other sleep disorders, neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders and the assessment and management of adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).