Mental Health in Today’s Culture
- A Reflection on World Mental Health Day
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Keynote Speaker: Professor Patrick McGorry AO
Executive Director of Orygen and Professor of Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and former Australian of the Year
Pat is a psychiatrist known world-wide for his development and scaling up of early intervention and youth mental health services and for mental health innovation, advocacy and reform.
He is Professor of Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, and founding editor of the journal Early Intervention in Psychiatry.
He led the advocacy which resulted in the establishment by the Australian Government in 2005 of the National Youth Mental Health Foundation, which in 2006 became Headspace and he remains a founding board member of that organisation.
He has played a key advocacy and advisory role to government and health system reform in Australia and in many parts of the world.
In 2010 Professor McGorry was selected as Australian of the Year and became an Officer of the Order of Australia.
In 2016 he became the first psychiatrist to be elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
In 2018 he received the Schizophrenia International Research Society Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2019 the Humanitarian Award of the Society of Biological Psychiatry and the NHMRC Research Excellence Award.
Date:
Tuesday 10 October 2023
Time:
7.30pm - 9pm
Holy Faith Hall, 30 White Crescent, Campbell
$15 / $8 (Student/Concession)
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