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

Dr Leanne Geppert

Chief of Clinical Services and Operations

Professor Eóin Killackey

Chief of Research and Knowledge Translation

Kerryn Pennell

Chief of Strategy and Engagement

Ben Ragg

Chief Information Officer

Pam White

Chief of People, Culture and Wellbeing
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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 Paul Amminger

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

Professor Andrew Chanen

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

Professor Sue Cotton

Head, Health Services and Outcomes Research
Research Interests:
First episode psychosis, personality disorder, bipolar disorder, substance abuse.

Professor Eóin Killackey

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

Professor Barnaby Nelson

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

Professor Rosemary Purcell

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

Professor Jo Robinson

Head of Suicide Research
Research Interests:
Suicide prevention, online interventions.

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 Stephen Wood

Deputy Chief of Research
Research Interests:
Neuroimaging and cognitive predictors of functional outcome, adolescent brain development, ultra high risk

Professor Kelly Allott

Principal Research Fellow
Research Interests:
Psychosis, depression, cognition, neuropsychology, functional recovery, early intervention

Associate Professor Gillinder Bedi

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

Professor Simon Rice

Head, Elite Athlete Mental Health and Forensic Youth Mental Health
Research Interests:
Elite athlete mental health, forensic youth mental health, young men’s mental health, social psychiatry, mood disorders

Dr Cali Bartholomeusz

Senior Research Fellow
Research Interests:
Psychosis, neuroimaging, clinical staging, social cognition and functional recovery

Dr Aswin Ratheesh

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

Dr Magenta Simmons

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