Dr Harte is a medical graduate of Trinity College Dublin and completed his post graduate psychiatry training in the United Kingdom and in Australia. He holds fellowship of both the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK) and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. Dr Harte is also an Accredited Member of the Faculty of Addictions Psychiatry (RANZCP). In addition to addiction psychiatry, Dr Harte has an interest in gender and sexuality. He is the immediate past president of AusPATH (Australian Professional Association for Trans Health) and is a past director of the Monash Gender Clinic. Dr Harte is an Honorary Senior Clinical Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne. He is also a member of the Victorian Mental Health Tribunal. Dr Harte has published in the scientific literature and has been a keynote speaker at scientific meetings both nationally and internationally.