Psychiatrists

Dr Wendy Duncan is a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Her practice intends to address the needs of children and adolescents with emotional, scholastic and behavioral difficulties, and psychiatric disorders while supporting and guiding parents and families in the process. Dr Duncan is president-elect of the South African Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (SAACAPAP) and was the National Convener for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the South African Society of Psychiatrist (SASOP) between 2010 and 2015. She remains an active member of the local subgroup of SASOP and is a member of the Gauteng Association of Infant Mental Health (GAIMH). She is registered as a sub-specialist child psychiatrist with the HPCSA. Dr Duncan’s experience in psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry is broad. She has worked in both outpatient and high-care inpatient settings, with involvement in child and family-centred work as well as rehabilitation psychiatry in mentally disabled children and youth. As part of her current practice, Dr Duncan is involved in the inpatient treatment of adolescents with emotional difficulties. She is a co-director of Adolescent Services at The Day Clinic.
Dr Duncan has a special interest in infant mental health, complex trauma and its clinical presentation, early-onset anxiety disorders and affect regulation difficulties; and has presented clinical talks and conference papers on these topics, as well as other topics in child and adolescent psychiatry. She recently contributed a chapter to a reference book on mental health matters in children who have suffered maltreatment.

Dr Rita Thom is a general psychiatrist with diverse interests and work experience. She has experience in the assessment and management of adults, adolescents and children with a range of mental disorders. She holds an academic position in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of the Witwatersrand, as an honorary Adjunct Professor, and is involved in teaching and training, research, voluntary work and advocacy. She is an active member of the South African Society of Psychiatrists.

HPCSA number: MP0807060
Practice Number: 1116169

Dr Alicia Swart is a general psychiatrist whose practice is based full-time at the Oxford Healthcare Centre. She completed her postgraduate training through Wits University and is interested in conditions across the range of general psychiatry. Her special interests include adolescent mental health, as well as mood and anxiety disorders. She believes in a holistic person-centric approach, which combines input from the multidisciplinary team as well as the patient’s own strengths to achieve the desired outcomes.

Dr Greg Jonsson qualified as a doctor in 1999 and went on to specialise in Psychiatry at the University of the Witwatersrand. He achieved his Fellowship from the College of Medicine in 2006 and his MMed from Wits University in 2009. Dr Jonsson started the Luthando Neuropsychiatry and HIV clinic at Chris Hani Baragwanath academic hospital (CHBAH) in 2008 primarily serving the needs of mentally ill patients with HIV. Concurrently he helped establish the transgender clinic at CHBAH. Dr Jonsson started the sub specialist Neuropsychiatry programme at the University of the Witwatersrand in conjunction with the University of British Columbia and was grandfathered into the Neuropsychiatry sub specialty in 2015. After spending 7 years at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre in Private practice he is now in full time private practice at the Oxford health care centre and has a keen interest in psychotherapy, neuropsychiatry, transgender medicine and functional neurological symptom disorder.