Professor Walter appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

In the 2012 Australia Day Honours announcement, Professor Garry Walter, Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). The award is for service to medicine in the fields of adolescent mental health, medical education and publishing. (January 2012)

2011 Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research (ASPR) Oration Awardee

Professor Gin Malhi has been awarded the 2011 Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research (ASPR) Oration Award at the annual conference held in Dunedin, New Zealand. This Oration is given at each conference by a member of ASPR who is prominent or rising to prominence in the Australian and New Zealand psychiatric research community.(December 2011)

Child Psychiatry Developments

Professor Garry Walter delivered an invited address at Yale, coinciding with celebrations of the centennial of the Yale Child Study Centre. Professor Walter’s presentation detailed key initiatives in child psychiatry research and service development in Australia, and drew comparison between child psychiatry developments Down Under and those in North America and the rest of the world. (April 2011)

New Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Professor Gin Malhi has been appointed by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) as the new Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. He was profiled in the March 2011 issue of the RANZCP Psych-e Bulletin. (10 November 2010) [Read the interview]

Treatment for mental ill 'at risk' in new plan

Dr Christopher Ryan was interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald  on the Mental Health Review Tribunal's decision to shift an automatic review of involuntary treatment from one week to between three and four weeks. (5 November 2010) [Read the article]

Prevention and early intervention of mental illness in infants, children and adolescents

Professor Philip Hazell and Dr Nick Kowalenko were key members of the RANZCP expert reference group that released the RANZCP report "Prevention and early intervention of mental illness in infants, children and adolescents". Recommendations from the report are being advanced via the provision of training and education to psychiatrists, initiating complementary projects and lobbying governments at all levels. (October 2010) [Read the report]

Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology Fellowship Awardee

Dr Anne Wand was awarded the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (JSPN) Fellowship to attend the JSPN’s annual meeting with 13 other recently qualified international psychiatrists and senior psychiatry trainees from around the world. Dr Wand's paper described the RANZCP psychiatry training program and her experience of the transition from trainee to consultant psychiatrist in developing a new consultation-liaison psychiatry service. (July 2010)

Obsessive-compulsive disorder under the microscope

Dr Bill Brakoulias was interviewed by ABC 702 Radio Sydney and Riverina about a new research study. Researchers at Nepean Hospital are interviewing sufferers of OCD in an attempt to make sense of its complex symptoms. If you or someone you know suffer from compulsive cleaning, checking, hoarding, counting, recurrent obsessional thoughts or other OCD symptoms, please call (02) 4734 2585. (16 March 2010) [Listen to this interview]