Department of Health, Tasmania
Ahmed Zaafan is an experienced psychiatrist currently serving as a Career Medical Officer in Psychiatry at Tasmanian Health Service since April 2018, with a main placement in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) since October 2020. Prior roles include Senior Resident Medical Officer, where responsibilities included completing rotations in emergency, medical, and surgical fields to achieve full general registration with AHPRA, and serving as a consultant in acute inpatient units and liaison settings. Before relocating to Australia, Ahmed Zaafan worked as a Psychiatrist Specialist at Egyptian Medical Syndicate and held various positions at Abbassia Mental Health Hospital, including Senior Registrar in Psychiatry. Educational qualifications include a Master's degree in Psychiatry from Ain Shams University and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.) from Cairo University.
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Department of Health, Tasmania
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The Department of Health improves, promotes, protects and maintains the health, safety and wellbeing of Tasmanians through service planning, managing, procuring and delivering high quality health services. This covers the range of essential public services delivered by operational Groups: - Ambulance Tasmania provides integrated, high quality, pre-hospital emergency and medical care, health transport and medical retrieval services to the Tasmanian community. - Public Health Services works to improve and protect the health and wellbeing of all Tasmanians by working in partnership with individuals, groups and communities. It also includes the vital corporate support services provided by departmental Groups: - Corporate Services manages the delivery of an efficient and effective statewide health and human services system by leading the provision of strategic corporate, policy and regulatory services. - Planning, Purchasing and Performance performs the core system management functions of strategy and planning, purchasing, performance management, monitoring, reporting and analysis. Office of the Secretary provides high level public administration, parliamentary and corporate governance support and advice to DoH, the Secretary and Portfolio Minister. Together these functions provide: - portfolio advice to the Minister for Health - public services to clients and the community - strategic leadership and direction to service delivery areas - corporate support services to service delivery areas - a framework of policies, processes, procedures and controls to assure the Government and the community that the objectives of the health system are being met.