Dr Allers has been a Specialist Psychiatrist in private practice since 1993. Dr Allers completed his MBChB at the University of Cape Town in 1984. He completed his MMed (Psych) in 1992 and qualified for his FC (Psych) in 2005 (by peer review). He initially started practice in Springs and is now working in Benoni at the Glynnview Hospital which has a 80 bed private psychiatric unit and is licensed to admit involuntary and assisted patients. He is the Clinical Director at the hospital and manages the outcomes based model at the hospital. Dr Allers has served on many committees and has also been active in management of psychiatry since 1998. He served as President of the South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP) from 2002-2004 and was Chairperson of the Psychiatry Management Group (PMG) from July 2009 to May 2011 (he was a Director from 2007). He was a member of the executive committee of SAMA (2006 – 2008). He is a founder member of the PsychMG and P3 and serves on the board of the PsychMG. He is one of the founding members of the SAPPF and served as the Deputy CEO (2009 – 2011). He was a previous convenor of the South African Psychiatric Treatment Guidelines Project and head of the PMG clinical peer review committee (2006 – 2009) and was a member of the Confidentiality Task Team, ICD-10 Code implementation for the Council for Medical Schemes (March 2006 – 2008).