Professor Patrick McGorry
Executive Director, Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health
Professor Patrick McGorry is the Executive Director of Orygen, Professor of Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, and a Founding Director of the National Youth Mental Health Foundation (headspace). He is a world-leading researcher in the area of early psychosis and youth mental health, and has been directly involved in research and clinical care for homeless people, refugees and asylum seekers.
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Professor Jo Smith
Joint Clinical Advisor to the EIP Audit, National Clinical Audit of Psychosis (NCAP) and Professor in Early Intervention and Psychosis at University of Worcester, UK
Jo is Professor in Early Intervention and Psychosis at University of Worcester, UK. Jo established and led the Worcestershire Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) service, Worcester, UK. She was Chair of IRIS and co-authored the IRIS EIP Clinical Guidelines (IRIS 1998, 2012). She was joint EIP Programme Lead for England with NIMHE from 2004-2010. She co-chairs the International First Episode Vocational Recovery Group (iFEVR). In March 2018, Jo was appointed as National Clinical Audit of Psychosis (NCAP) Joint Clinical Advisor to the EIP Audit for England and Wales.
Professor Eóin Killackey
Head, Functional Recovery in Youth Mental Health, Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health
Professor Eóin Killackey is to Associate Director, Graduate Research and Education and Head, Functional Recovery Research program at Orygen. He has worked as a clinical psychologist in adolescent and adult public mental health settings and in private practice.
Eóin’s research is primarily in helping young people with mental illness recover well. This includes finding ways to help young people with their education and employment and improve their physical health. Another focus of his research is in service system reform in mental illnes
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Shannon McCleerey-Hooper
Program Manager of Consumer Affairs, Riverside University Health System
Shannon shares over a decade of training, supporting and working with peers, who are employed by Riverside’s behavioral health care system. She is opening up her own history book to share what she has learned – the successes and the learning opportunities - when employing over 140 people with lived experience to work on treatment teams. She works to affect change, not only for individual wellness, but also to create recovery-focused environments in service systems. Shannon is a peer herself, who strives to assist agencies all over the world to grow peer programs through Peer Support Specialist Training.
Assistant Professor Nev Jones
Department of Mental Health Law & Policy, University of South Florida
Nev Jones is an assistant professor in the departments of mental health law and policy and psychiatry at the University of South Florida and affiliate faculty of the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute. A community psychologist by training, Dr. Jones' research has focused on two primary areas: mental health services for youth and young adults experiencing emerging serious mental illness (with a focus on early psychosis), and youth/young adult/service user inclusion, leadership and capacity building in the context of research, research-driven policy work and program development. Herself an alumni of early intervention in psychosis services, current funded projects include an investigation of the impact of involuntary hospitalizations on young people during initial pathways to care, and the post-discharge trajectories of former EIP recipients in the US.