McGorry, Patrick Dennistoun (1952 - )

Summary

Patrick McGorry has created new concepts for psychotic disorders and a new clinical and research focus on youth mental health. He founded a novel clinical service, the Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (EPPIC), that focussed on the early phase of illness. His model has been replicated world-side and expanded to include other psychiatric illnesses. McGorry has been Professor of Mental Health at the University of Melbourne since 1996 and was Australian of the Year in 2010.

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Chronology

1977

Education - MB BS, University of Sydney

1977

Career position - Intern, Royal Newcastle Hospital, New South Wales

1978

Career position - Senior House Officer, Epsom District Hospital, and Singleton Hospital, Wales, United Kingdom

1979

Education - Member, Royal College of Physicians, London

1979

Career position - Locum Registrar, Whittington Hospital, London, United Kingdom

1980

Career position - Medical Registrar, Royal Newcastle Hospital, New South Wales

1981 - 1984

Career position - Psychiatric Registrar, Newcastle Psychiatric Centre, New South Wales

1984 - 1985

Career position - Senior Psychiatric Registrar, Royal Park Hospital, Melbourne

1986 -

Career position - Member, Australian Society for Psychiatric Research

1986

Education - Member, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

1986 - 1987

Career position - Lecturer, Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University

1986 - 1987

Career position - Psychiatrist, Royal Park Hospital, Melbourne

1987 - 1996

Career position - Consultant Psychiatrist, Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture

1988 - 1991

Career position - Consultant in Charge, Royal Park Hospital, Melbourne

1988 - 1991

Career position - Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University

1990 -

Career position - Member of Committee, Section on Schizophrenia, World Psychiatric Association

1991

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Monash University

1991 - 1992

Career position - Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University

1992 - 1994

Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Australia and New Zealand journal of psychiatry

1992 - 1994

Career position - Chair, Working Party on Schizophrenia, National Health and Medical Research Council

1992 - 1996

Career position - Director, Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (EPPIC), Melbourne

1992 - 1996

Career position - Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne

1992 - 1996

Career position - Head, University of Melbourne Academic Unit, Royal Park Hospital, Melbourne

1993 - 1994

Career position - Chair, Mental Health Committee Working Party on Psychoeducational Materials in Psychotic Disorders, National Health and Medical Research Council

1995

Award - Ian Simpson Award, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

1996 -

Career position - Fellow, Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

1996 -

Career position - Professor of Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne

1996 - 2006

Career position - Director, Centre for Young People's Mental Health (later MH-SKY)

1997 -

Career position - Member, International Early Psychosis Association (IEPA)

1997 - 2006

Career position - President, International Early Psychosis Association

1998

Award - Organon Senior Research Award, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

1998 - 2006

Career position - Executive Board Member, International Society for Psychiatric Treatments in Schizophrenia and Related Psychosis (ISPS)

2001

Award - Centenary Medal - for service in establishing the internationally recognised EPIC program at Melbourne University Medal

2001

Award - Founders Medal, Australian Society for Psychiatric Research

2002 -

Career position - Executive Director and Clinical Director, Orygen Youth Health, Australia

2002 -

Career position - Associate Editor, Australia and New Zealand journal of psychiatry

2002 -

Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Journal de psychiatrie, sciences humaines, neurosciences

2002 -

Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Schizophrenia research

2002

Education - Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London

2002

Education - MD, University of Melbourne

2003 - 2008

Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Schizophrenia bulletin

2004

Award - Richard J. Wyatt Award, International Early Psychosis Association

2006 -

Award - Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

2006 -

Career position - Honorary Advisor, Hong Kong journal of psychiatry

2006 -

Career position - Member, Board of Directors, The Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS)

2006 -

Career position - Visiting Professor, University of Stavanger and Rogaland Psychiatric Services, Stavanger, Norway

2006 - 2007

Career position - Member, Program Grant Review Committee, National Health and Medical Research Council

2007 -

Career position - Member, National Committee for Brain and Mind, Australian Academy of Science

2007 -

Career position - Editor-in-Chief, Early intervention in psychiatry journal

2007 -

Career position - Treasurer, International Early Psychosis Association

2007 -

Career position - Board Member, Headstrong, National Centre for Youth Mental Health, Ireland

2009 -

Career position - Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre

2009

Award - Castilla del Pino Award, Castilla del Pino Foundation, Spain

2010 -

Career position - Editor, Canadian journal of community mental health

2010

Award - Doctor of Laws honoris causa, Monash University

2010

Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to medicine, and to mental health as a leading clinician, researcher and scientist, through innovative reform of services, the development of national programs to support youth and raising public awareness

2010

Award - Australian of the Year

2013

Award - Scientific Research Award, National Alliance on Mental Illness, U.S.A.

2013 - 2017

Career position - President, Society for Mental Health Research

2015

Award - Lieber Prize for Outstanding Research in Schizophrenia Research, Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation

2016 -

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

2016 - 2018

Career position - President, Schizophrenia International Research Society

2018

Award - Lifetime Achievement Award, Schizophrenia International Research Society

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Published resources

Resources

• '2010 Australian of the Year', Australian of the Year Awards, National Australia Day Council, https://australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/professor-patrick-mcgorry-ao. Details

See also

• Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia [Queen's Birthday 2010], Governor General's Office, Canberra, 2010, https://web.archive.org.au/awa/20130329080918mp_/http:/www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/qb/qb2010/Media%20Notes%20AO%20%28final%29.pdf. Details
• Robson, Alexandra K.; Production Manager and Editor eds, Who's who in Australia 2019 (Southbank, Vic.: AAP Directories, 2018), 1788 pp. Details