Mental Health Connect

Speaker: Pat McGorry
Chair: Maree Teesson

Pat McGorry discusses his interest in this area:

work in early psychosis – data showing that we can reduce suicide within the first five years – intervention.
His experience also included reading an article in The Age about group of parents that met to talk to others about child loss. He met with [...]

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 Australian of the Year Professor Patrick McGorry has condemned the failure of governments to properly fund and resource mental health services as a “national obscenity”.
Interviewed on tonight’s Four Corners program, Hidden Voices, Professor McGorry says he gets phone calls and letters about the issue every day. “A mother rang me from Sydney yesterday saying that [...]

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Did you miss SBS Insight this week? The topic was mental health and a timely one for the upcoming election.
Guests included:

Peter Dutton
Peter Dutton is the Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing. He recently joined Opposition leader Tony Abbott to announce the Coalition’s Real Action Plan for Better Mental Health. The policy promised that if the [...]

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Day Two of  TheMHS Summer Forum
Prof Ian Hickie introduces Prof Pat McGorry 
• Discusses the lead up to Pat winning – he was in Ireland when he was nominated for the Victorian of the year.
• There has been movement away from obvious celebrity such as Aust of the year sports stars – i.e. genuine contributed.
 • Mental [...]

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Australian of the Year 2010, Prof McGorry  has been confirmed as a speaker at TheMHS Summer Forum in Sydney.
You don’t want to miss this event! You can register online  here
Prof McGorry Bio
Patrick D. McGorry is Executive Director of Orygen Youth Health, Australia’s largest youth mental health organisation, comprising a world-renown research centre and a [...]

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