Research Leaders

Research Leaders

Professor Patrick McGorry AO
Executive Director
Research Interests:

Psychosis, mood disorders, service reform.

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

Relapse prevention, psychosocial recovery, online interventions.

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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 Andrew Chanen
Chief of Clinical Practice
Research Interests:

Personality disorder, mood disorders, psychotic 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 Eóin Killackey
Chief of Research and Knowledge Translation
Research Interests:

Psychosocial recovery, functional recovery, service reform.

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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 Rosemary Purcell
Chief of Knowledge Translation
Research Interests:

Mental health in elite sport

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Professor Jo Robinson
Head of Suicide Research
Research Interests:

Suicide prevention, online interventions.

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

Depression, anxiety, suicide, mechanisms, machine learning, early intervention, novel treatments

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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.

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Professor Stephen Wood
Deputy Chief of Research
Research Interests:

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

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Professor Kelly Allott
Principal Research Fellow
Research Interests:

Psychosis, depression, cognition, neuropsychology, functional recovery, early intervention

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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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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

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Associate Professor Andrea Phillipou
Head, Eating Disorders
Research Interests:

Eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, biopsychosocial, aetiology, prevention, treatment

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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

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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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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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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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