Our Leaders

Our Leaders

Executive Leadership Team

Professor Mario Alvarez-Jimenez

Chief of Orygen Digital

Chrissy McCallum

Chief Financial Officer

Professor Andrew Chanen

Chief of Clinical Practice

Jane Laidlaw

Chief of Clinical Operations

Professor Eóin Killackey

Chief of Research and Knowledge Translation

Pam White

Chief People Officer
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Research Leaders

Professor Patrick McGorry AO

Executive Director
Research Interests:
Psychosis, mood disorders, service reform.

Professor Mario Alvarez-Jimenez

Chief of Orygen Digital
Research Interests:
Relapse prevention, psychosocial recovery, online interventions.

Professor Andrew Chanen

Chief of Clinical Practice
Research Interests:
Personality disorder, mood disorders, psychotic disorders.

Professor Eóin Killackey

Chief of Research and Knowledge Translation
Research Interests:
Psychosocial recovery, functional recovery, service reform.

Professor Jo Robinson AM

Head of Suicide Research, Scientific Director - Orygen Policy Centre

Professor Rosemary Purcell

Deputy Chief of Knowledge Translation
Research Interests:
Mental health in elite sport

Professor Barnaby Nelson

Head of Early Psychosis: Ultra-high Risk Research
Research Interests:
Ultra-high risk for psychosis, prediction research, psychopathology and phenomenology, psychotherapy for psychosis

Professor Eric Chen

Professorial Fellow, First Episode Psychosis Research

Professor Paul Amminger

Professorial Research Fellow
Research Interests:
Neurobiology, neuroprotection, low-risk interventions, ultra high risk for psychosis.

Professor Sarah Whittle

Head of Neurodevelopmental Research
Research Interests:
Brain development, depression, anxiety, adverse childhood experiences, parenting, puberty

Professor Lianne Schmaal

Head, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Research
Research Interests:
Depression, anxiety, suicide, mechanisms, machine learning, early intervention, novel treatments

Professor Andrew Thompson

Head of Psychosis Research, Head of Virtual Reality Research
Research Interests:
First episode psychosis, ultra-high risk and psychotic-like experiences, virtual reality and virtual worlds, clinical quality registries, clinical trials and translation networks.

Professor Lucia Valmaggia

Head of Orygen Digital XR Innovation Lab, Co-Lead of XR Research
Research Interests:
Immersive reality for mental health, cognitive behaviour therapy, psychological interventions for young people in the criminal justice system

Professor Kelly Allott

Head of Cognition Research
Research Interests:
Psychosis, depression, cognition, neuropsychology, functional recovery, early intervention

Associate Professor Gillinder Bedi

Head of Substance Use Research
Research Interests:
Drug and alcohol use, substance use disorders

Professor Sarah Bendall

Head, Trauma and Youth Mental Health
Research Interests:
Trauma-informed care, trauma, psychosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychotherapy, models of service delivery

Associate Professor Andrea Phillipou

Head of Eating Disorders Research
Research Interests:
Eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, biopsychosocial, aetiology, prevention, treatment

Associate Professor Magenta Simmons

Head of Youth and Family Involvement Research
Research Interests:
Shared decision making, peer support, lived experience workforce, youth partnerships in research, participatory research methodologies, vocational recovery

Emeritus Professor Helen Herrman AO

Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry
Research Interests:
Vulnerable and disengaged youth, community mental health, mental health promotion.

Associate Professor Dominic Dwyer

Associate Professor, Clinical Staging

Associate Professor Caroline Gao

Associate Professor, Data Science and Analytical Methods
Research Interests:
Data science and analytical methods

Dr Isabel Zbukvic

Head of Implementation Science

Associate Professor Zac Seidler

Research Interests:
Men’s mental health; masculinity; gender responsive healthcare; domestic violence; social media use; suicide

Associate Professor Kate Filia

Co-Head of Social and Functional Recovery Research
Research Interests:
Social determinants of health, functioning, health equity, health services research

Associate Professor Vanessa Cropley

Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Psychosis, clinical high-risk psychosis, brain maturation, neurobiology, sleep and circadian rhythms, trauma
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Youth Advisors in Governance

Jasmine Elliot

Youth Advisor in Governance

Rebecca Langman

Youth Advisor to People & Remuneration Committee

Deanna DiCicco

Youth Advisor to the Clinical Governance Committee
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