Steve is a psychiatrist and the director of psychosocial oncology at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. Steve is passionate about medical education, and has taught medical students and psychiatry trainees for many years. He co-authored the general public guide to mental health called "Mental - everything you never knew you needed to know about mental health" and the medical student textbook "Psych-Lite: Psychiatry That's Easy to Read."
Steve is a regular media commentator, including as a regular guest on Melbourne ABC Radio, as Dr DoLittle 3RRR's Radiotherapy (Sundays at 10am), as host of the SBS TV series "How mad are you?"
Steve's research interests include emergency psychiatry, trauma, psychiatric aspects of infectious diseases, psycho-oncology, medical education, psychiatric complications of medical disorders and the neurobiology of anxiety disorders.
Experience
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2016–presentDirector, Psychosocial Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
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2017–presentHonorary clinical professor of psychiatry, University of Melbourne
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2006–2017Adjunct associate professor of psychiatry, Monash University
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2000–2016Head, Consultation, Liaison & Emergency Psychiatry, Alfred Heaith
Education
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2004University of Melbourne, Doctor of Medicine
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1996University of Melbourne, Master of Medicine
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1996Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Fellowship
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1988University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
Publications
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2018Mental - Everything you never knew you needed to know about mental health, Black Inc.
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2010Psych-Lite: Psychiatry That's Easy to Read, McGraw-Hill Education
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