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Dr. Bill Lyndon
MB, BS.FRACGP, FRANZCP
Psychiatrist
Co-director, Mood Disorders Unit, Northside
Clinic
Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychological
Medicine
University of Sydney
Private practice North Sydney
Graduated University of NSW 1972
Family Medicine Program 1974 - 1976
Rural General Practice (Moree NSW) 1977
- 1981
Commenced private psychiatry practice 1990
Main professional interests - treatment
of mood disorders,
Pharmacotherapy, ECT, transcranial magnetic
stimulation
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Michael Carr Gregg
Michael is an Adolescent
Psychologist working at the Albert Road
Centre for Health in Melbourne. He specialises
in the area of parenting adolescents and
adolescent mental health. Michael is the
Consultant Psychologist to the Victorian
Secondary Schools Principal's Association,
the Australian Ballet School and Melbourne
Girls College.
Educated in Kenya, England, New Zealand
and Australia. In 1985, he founded the world's
first national teenage cancer patients support
group, CanTeen - The Australian Teenage
Cancer Patient's Society. Michael has worked
in private practice as a family therapist,
child psychologist and clinical psychologist,
as an academic, researcher and he spent
4 years working as a political lobbyist.
He has held a variety
of appointments including Executive Director
of the New Zealand Drug Foundation, Director
of the Centre for Social Health at the University
of Melbourne, and spent 6 years as Head
of Education, at the Centre for Adolescent
Health, which is part of the Royal Children's
Hospital in Melbourne.
Michael has been
the recipient of a number of awards including
the Australian Jaycees Outstanding Young
Australian of the Year (1987) and in 1989
was awarded the Victorian Health Promotion
Foundation's Inaugural Award for the Most
Outstanding Achievement in the area of international
health promotion. In 1997, he was made a
Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International
in recognition of his work in the prevention
of youth suicide.. In year 200 he was the
Dr Ann D Clark Visiting Fellow at St Ignatius
College Riverview in Sydney. In 2001 Michael
was the inaugural Visiting Fellow at Presbyterian
Ladies' College, Sydney (PLC).
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Dr Bronwyn Gould
AM
Dr Gould has experience spanning
over 20 years in general practice specializing
in work with Children, parents and young
people. A major focus of her work is vulnerable
young people. More recently, she has established
and provides an onsite medical service for
homeless women and women with children at
Lou's Place, Darlinghurst.
She is actively involved
in working with children and young women
in a voluntary capacity through Guides Australia
and holds the position of deputy chair of
ACCAP (Australian Council for Children and
Parenting) and chairs the communications
working group.
Dr Gould's extensive
community involvement in child protection
has been recognized by her appointment in
1998 as the Chair if the Advisory Council
of the National Association for Prevention
of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN). She
served as a member of the NSW Child Protection
Council 1999-2000.
Dr Gould has post-graduate
qualifications in both paediatrics and psychological
medicine.
Dr Gould has extensive
media experience promoting child and family
health, and has experience in producing
public education materials on these and
other health-related matters.
In 1998, Dr Gould was
appointed a Member of the Order of Australia
(AM) for service to youth.
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Dr
Carolyn Russell
A general practitioner for 24 years,
Dr Russell now works in GP education
as well as in a counselling and treatment
role in her General Practice in Queensland.
She is passionate about quilting and
crazy patchwork, and enjoys time with
her family and music.
She graduated from Uni of Qld in 1978
and has worked in General Practice for
19 years since completing 3 years at
Royal Brisbane Hospital as a Resident
Medical Officer and GP Registrar after
her graduation.
Interests in medicine include: management
of Anxiety Disorders and Depression
in GP setting, Women's health, Patient
education, Paediatrics.
She is active in the College of GPs
and in her local Division of GP both
in teaching role and in support of programs
for growth.
Dr Russell also works part-time as a
Medical Educator in the Holy Spirit
Hospital in Brisbane, and provides advocacy
for persons for whom the health system
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Jonathan
Phillips
MB BS, FRANZCP
Consultant Psychiatrist
Jonathan Phillips is Chairman of the
Committee of Presidents of the Australian
Medical Colleges, a member of the
Australian Medical Council, Chairman
of the Specialist Medical Review Council
and Immediate Past President of the
Royal Australian and New Zealand College
of Psychiatrists (RANZCP). He has
been involved in numerous RANZCP activities
over the years including being a member
of the Committee for Examinations,
Chair Committee for Training and Chair
Fellowships Board of the College.
Additionally he represents the RANZCP
in various medico-political activities,
including the position of Chair of
the Forum for Strategic Planning of
Private Psychiatric Services.
Jonathan Phillips graduated in Medicine
from the University of Melbourne in
1967 and was resident medical officer
at St Vincents Hospital Victoria and
senior resident medical officer at
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital New South
Wales. He trained in psychiatry at
Prince Henry Hospital New South Wales,
obtaining his Fellowship of the RANZCP
in 1973.
Whilst working principally in private
practice with a special interest in
mood disorders and medicolegal psychiatry,
Jonathan Phillips has been a WHO short
term health consultant, has held the
locum position as Head of Department
of Psychiatry Repatriation General
Hospital NSW, has been Chair of the
psychiatric division of the Medical
Services Committee of NSW and has
been guest lecturer and examiner in
the School of Postgraduate Studies
National University of Singapore.
Particularly concerned about the development
of psychiatric services in East Asia,
he has lectured in Vietnam, Thailand,
Malaysia and Indonesia. He has also
lectured in Europe
He was awarded the Grey Ewan Medal
of the RANZCP in 1973, the Graham
Coupland Medal of the Royal Australian
College of Surgeons in 1993 and the
Arthur E Mills Medal of the Royal
Australasian College of Physicians
in 2000.
Jonathan Phillips is a member of the
AMA and the Medicolegal Society of
NSW.
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Dr Chris Wever MBBS, FRANZCP
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Dr Chris Wever is a child, adolescent and family psychiatrist. He currently works in private practice in Sydney and the Gold Coast. He has been in Private Practice for the last eight years.
Previously he worked at the Rivendell Unit in Concord, Sydney for 9 years after gaining his specialist qualifications in 1990. During this time he developed a number of treatment programs at the Rivendell unit. He has a particular in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in young people yet sees and treats the whole range of child and adolescent problems. For the last three years he worked at Rivendell he was the Inpatient Director of their 26 bed inpatient unit. During the time there also he worked as a consultant to the Department of Juvenile Justice visiting many of their detention centers. He also worked in rural areas one day per fortnight visiting Bathurst and Orange.
Dr Wever has had extensive experience in teaching. He was a lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in Sydney, teaching advanced trainees in child psychiatry and also lectured university students from the University of Sydney. He has lectured a broad range of other professionals in child and adolescent psychiatry topics and has been teaching school counselors in a one day workshops “Child Psychiatry for the Non Child Psychiatrist”. He currently is appointed as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Bond University.
Dr Wever is also the author of three books for children. These are: “The Secret Problem”, a book for children with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder which won The NSW Mental Health Matters Award; “The School Wobblies”, a book for children with separation anxiety and school refusal and “Full of Beans”, a book for children with attention deficit disorder. |
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