Board Members

Prof Patrick McGorry

Professor Patrick McGorry is a renowned leader in the field of youth mental health. His pioneering work, particularly in the area of early psychosis, has won him both national and international recognition.  Professor McGorry is the Executive Director ORYGEN Youth Health and ORYGEN Research Centre. He will represent ORYGEN on the Foundation Executive Committee.

Professor McGorry has made an enormous contribution to service delivery, research and national and international service reform in the area of early psychosis and youth mental health for over 15 years. He has been instrumental in the development of the youth-specific mental health service at ORYGEN and the adoption of more effective and safer treatment practices for young people with emerging mental disorder.

Professor McGorry is currently Chief Investigator A on NHMRC Program and CCRE Grants as well as conducting research funded by State and Federal Government sources, the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Theodore & Vada Stanley Foundation, NARSAD, Colonial Foundation, ANZ Charitable Trusts, Rebecca L. Cooper Medical Research Foundation and Australian Rotary Health Research. Publications resulting from his research have been published in refereed international journals such as the Archives of General Psychiatry, Lancet, American Journal of Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Schizophrenia Research, Biological Psychiatry, The Medical Journal of Australia, The British Medical Journal, The British Journal of Psychiatry, Psychological Medicine and Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. He has also edited 5 books. As well as contributing significantly to the field of schizophrenia and psychosis research, Professor McGorry has conducted important research in other fields of psychiatry such as the mental health needs of the homeless and prisoners, treatment for refugees and torture survivors, youth suicide, youth substance use and the treatment of emerging personality disorder.

He is a member of the Victorian Government Ministerial Advisory Committee on Mental Health and is currently the President of the International Early Psychosis Association, an Executive Board Member of the International Society for Psychological Treatments in Schizophrenia & Related Psychoses, and a member of the Committee of the Section on Schizophrenia of the World Psychiatric Association. He was Deputy Chair of the Victorian Postgraduate Training Committee of the RANZCP (2004-5), and in 2005  was elected as a General Councillor of the RANZCP. In 1991, Professor McGorry was awarded the RANZCP/Organon Junior Research Award for significant research contributions in the early phase of his career and then the RANZCP/Organon Senior Research Award in 1998. Research and clinical programs he has developed have received a number of awards including the 1994 Gold Australia and New Zealand Mental Health Services Achievement Award, the 1995 SAPMEA Best Program Award for the PACE Clinic and two Silver Australia and New Zealand Mental Health Service Achievement Awards in 1997 for the PACE Clinic. He was awarded the Founders Medal of the Australian Society for Psychiatric Research at the 2001 ASPR Annual Scientific Meeting and the Centenary Medal from the Australian Government in 2003.

Professor McGorry has a proven track record in leadership and management having initiated and overseen the development of the now multi-million dollar clinical, research, dissemination and translation programs that exist at ORYGEN and employ over 250 staff.

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