Dr Nadeem Siddiqui oversees the clinical services arm of Winnunga Aboriginal Health and Community Services in the ACT which comprise of GPs, nurses, mental health and allied health teams. Nadeem trained at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom as a medical student and later as a general practitioner. Since early in his career he has developed a portfolio of interests from teaching, primary care service development, clinical governance, mental health and drug and alcohol services.
He came to Australia in 2013 to take up the role as Executive Director of Clinical Services at Winnunga AHCS. There he has continued to supervise GP registrars and medical students from the ANU as well as being an examiner for the RACGP. His clinical interests at Winnunga are the psychodynamic manifestations of intergenerational trauma and how it manifests in mental illness and physical disease.
He is the current president for the Australian Society for Psychological Medicine and, in collaboration with them, developed the first RACGP accredited, Aboriginal-focused, Level 2 Mental Health Training, enabling GPs to provide psychological strategies to Indigenous patients.