Our Practice

Dr Philip Bird is a Consultant Psychiatrist, who graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom in 1988. He completed his advanced training in psychiatry in 1996 and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

Dr Bird has worked in private practice on the Sunshine Coast since 1997 and established The Gosforth Clinic in 1998, which provides adult outpatient psychiatric services. In 2002 two specialist services were added to the clinic; The Memory Clinic to assess individuals with memory loss associated with aging and the Adult ADHD Clinic providing assessment and treatment for developmental attentional and communication impairments such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). His private practice also focuses on the treatment of eating disorders, acquired brain injury and mood disorders.

Dr Bird has chaired and presented educational meetings for both psychiatrists and general practitioners in the area of Adult ADHD and communication disorders both in Australia and New Zealand.

Dr Bird has participated in national ADHD interest groups, committees and industry advisory boards and lectured to senior registrars in psychiatry.

In both 2008 and 2015 Dr Bird presented at the annual Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Congress. He was invited to deliver a presentation at the 2015 Neurological Disorders Summit in San Francisco, United States. Dr Bird recently had an article published in The Journal of Medical Case Reports describing the treatment of autism spectrum disorders with low-dose phenytoin.