About

BMed, MMed, FRANZCP, Cert Child Adol Psych
Conjoint Lecturer, UNSW

Dr Julian Kelman is a Consultant Psychiatrist providing clinical care and independent expert assessments for civil and statutory matters involving adults, adolescents, and children. Clinically Dr Kelman fosters a collaborative approach to deliver holistic, evidence-based care. His practice is grounded in empowering and educating patients and their families to achieve the best possible outcomes. Dr Kelman’s medicolegal work is focused on delivering clear, defensible opinions on diagnosis, causation, impairment, capacity, and prognosis, grounded in contemporaneous evidence, collateral material, and accepted medico-legal standards.

Dr Kelman is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) and a certified member of the Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is also a member of the  Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. He completed specialist training across multiple tertiary centres, including Sydney Children’s Hospital, Prince of Wales Hospital, St Vincent’s Hospital, The Royal Hospital for Women, and The Forensic Hospital. He has also worked as a Staff Specialist within South Eastern Sydney Local Health District. This background provides him with substantial exposure to complex psychiatric presentations across forensic, public, and acute clinical settings.

In addition to private clinical practice, Dr Kelman regularly undertakes independent psychiatric examinations (IMEs) and report writing for legal proceedings. He offers assessments for matters involving workers’ compensation, Comcare, public liability, medical negligence, fitness for duty, capacity and guardianship, historical abuse, and complex causation disputes. Dr Kelman is an authorised permanent impairment assessor with SIRA and holds certification in AMA4, AMA5, and GEPIC. His reports are structured, methodical, and aligned with jurisdictional requirements, with particular attention to consistency, internal logic, and medico-legal scrutiny. He is accustomed to addressing conflicting accounts, factual investigations, and longitudinal medical records.

Dr Kelman is also actively involved in medical education. He is a Conjoint Lecturer in Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of New South Wales and has previously held academic appointments at the University of Sydney and the University of Newcastle. He has contributed to peer-reviewed medical research and served on hospital governance, training, and safety committees, further reinforcing a disciplined and standards-based approach to assessment.