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 Operations

David Cooper

Chief Information Officer

Kerryn Pennell

Chief of Strategy and Policy

Professor Rosemary Purcell

Chief of Knowledge Translation

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 Rosemary Purcell

Chief of Knowledge Translation
Research Interests:
Mental health in elite sports, early intervention to reduce forensic outcomes

Professor Eóin Killackey

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

Professor Stephen Wood

Head, Clinical Neuroscience
Research Interests:
Neuroimaging and cognitive predictors of functional outcome, adolescent brain development, ultra high risk

Professor Paul Amminger

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

Professor Michael Berk

Professorial Fellow
Research Interests:
Mood disorders

Professor Sue Cotton

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

Professor Andrew Chanen

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

Dr Cali Bartholomeusz

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

Professor Helen Herrman AO

Research Interests:
Vulnerable and disengaged youth, community mental health, mental health promotion.

Professor Alison Yung

Associate Director, Graduate Research
Research Interests:
First episode psychosis, ultra-high risk of psychosis, physical health co-morbidities, exercise as therapy.

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 Mario Alvarez-Jimenez

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

Associate Professor Christopher Davey

Head, Mood and Anxiety Research
Research Interests:
Mood disorders

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

Dr Aswin Ratheesh

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

Associate Professor Kelly Allott

Senior Research Fellow
Research Interests:
Psychosis, depression, cognition, functional recovery.

Associate Professor Gillinder Bedi

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

Associate Professor Sarah Bendall

Senior Research Fellow
Research Interests:
Psychosis, trauma.

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

Professor Jo Robinson

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

Associate Professor Lianne Schmaal

Head, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Research
Research Interests:
Neuroimaging, depression, suicide, big data, machine learning

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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