Research Leaders

Research Leaders

Professor Patrick McGorry AO
Executive Director
Research Interests:

Psychosis, mood disorders, service reform.

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Professor Rosemary Purcell
Chief of Knowledge Translation
Research Interests:

Mental health in elite sports, early intervention to reduce forensic outcomes

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Professor Eóin Killackey
Chief of Research
Research Interests:

Psychosocial recovery, functional recovery, service reform.

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Professor Stephen Wood
Head, Clinical Neuroscience
Research Interests:

Neuroimaging and cognitive predictors of functional outcome, adolescent brain development, ultra high risk

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Professor Paul Amminger
Professorial Research Fellow
Research Interests:

Neurobiology, neuroprotection, low-risk interventions, ultra high risk for psychosis.

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Professor Michael Berk
Professorial Fellow
Research Interests:

Mood disorders

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Professor Sue Cotton
Head, Health Services and Outcomes Research
Research Interests:

First episode psychosis, personality disorder, bipolar disorder, substance abuse.

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Professor Andrew Chanen
Chief of Clinical Practice
Research Interests:

Personality disorder, mood disorders, psychotic disorders.

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Dr Cali Bartholomeusz
Senior Research Fellow
Research Interests:

Psychosis, neuroimaging, clinical staging, social cognition and functional recovery

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Professor Helen Herrman AO
Research Interests:

Vulnerable and disengaged youth, community mental health, mental health promotion.

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Professor Alison Yung
Associate Director, Graduate Research
Research Interests:

First episode psychosis, ultra-high risk of psychosis, physical health co-morbidities, exercise as therapy.

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Professor Barnaby Nelson
Head, Early Psychosis: Ultra-high Risk
Research Interests:

Ultra-high risk for psychosis, prediction research, psychopathology and phenomenology, psychotherapy for psychosis

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Professor Mario Alvarez-Jimenez
Chief of Orygen Digital
Research Interests:

Relapse prevention, psychosocial recovery, online interventions.

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Associate Professor Christopher Davey
Head, Mood and Anxiety Research
Research Interests:

Mood disorders

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Professor Andrew Thompson
Head of Psychosis Clinical 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

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Dr Aswin Ratheesh
Research Interests:

Bipolar disorders, improving psychological and pharmacological interventions, relationship between bipolar disorder and substance use, depression and psychosis

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Associate Professor Kelly Allott
Senior Research Fellow
Research Interests:

Psychosis, depression, cognition, functional recovery.

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Associate Professor Gillinder Bedi
Head, Substance Use Research
Research Interests:

Drug and alcohol use, substance use disorders

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Associate Professor Sarah Bendall
Senior Research Fellow
Research Interests:

Psychosis, trauma.

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Associate Professor Simon Rice
Lead, Young men’s mental health work stream
Research Interests:

Young men’s and elite athlete mental health, social determinants, mood and anxiety disorders, e-mental health

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Professor Jo Robinson
Head of Suicide Research
Research Interests:

Suicide prevention, online interventions.

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Associate Professor Lianne Schmaal
Head, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Research
Research Interests:

Neuroimaging, depression, suicide, big data, machine learning

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Matthew Hamilton
Senior Policy Analyst and Lead, Health economics work-stream
Research Interests:

Computational modelling, economic evaluation, health system organisation and financing, preferences.

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