​Department of Psychiatry

Heads of Clinical Units

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​Clinical Services, Stikland Hospital​

Prof Liezl Koen
MBChB, MMed (Psych), PhD 

Tel: ​​021 940 8718/4455​
Email: liezlk@sun.ac.za

 

Prof Koen is a senior specialist and associate professor. She is also the head of clinical services at Stikland Hospital. Her interests include schizophrenia, emergency psychiatry, and psychopharmacology.


Adult Psychiatric Services, Tygerberg Hospital ​

Dr. Kerry-Ann Louw
MBChB, FCPsych, MMed (Psych), MPhil (Liaison Mental Health)


Tel: 021 938 9765
Fax: 021 940 4573
Email: ​​kerrylouw@sun.ac.za​​


Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services, Tygerberg Hospital
​​​Dr. Anusha Lachman

MBChB, DCH, FCPsych, MMed (Psych), Cert Child Psych, MPhil (Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)

Tel: 021 938 9021/4573
Fax: 021 938 6111
Email: anusha@sun.ac.za

Dr. Lachman is the C&A consultant at the adolescent inpatient unit at Tygerberg Hospital and the acting Head of the Clinical Unit at Tygerberg Child Psychiatry.​She is also the program convener​​ for the MPhil in Infant Mental Health. Dr. Lachman's research interests include maternal and infant mental health, adolescent neuropsychiatry, and paediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry.


​Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services, Lentegeur Hospital​

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Rene Nassen ​​

​Tel: 021 370 1316
Fax: 021 938 9738
Email: ​rene.nassen@sun.ac.za​​​

Dr. Nassen is a psychiatrist (Child & Adolescent Psychiatry) and lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry. She is particularly interested in the neuropsychiatric aspects of HIV.​