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Professor of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne

Professor Patrick McGorry AO is a leading international researcher, clinician and advocate for mental health reform.

Professor McGorry is Executive Director of Orygen Youth Health, a world-renowned mental health organisation for young people that has put Australia at the forefront of innovation in the prevention and treatment of mental illness. Orygen targets the needs of young people with emerging serious mental illness, including first-episode psychosis and has become the model upon which many other youth mental health services in the world are based.

Professor McGorry is also a director of the National Youth Mental Health Foundation (headspace). He believes that early intervention offers the greatest hope for recovery and therefore takes every opportunity to educate the community to recognise the early signs of mental illness, without stigmatising or discriminating.

Professor McGorry was named as Australian of the Year in January 2010 in recognition of "his extraordinary 27-year contribution to the improvement of the youth mental health sector [that] has transformed the lives of tens of thousands of young people the world over."

Professor McGorry was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in June 2010.

Experience

  • –present
    Executive Director, Orygen Youth Health

Education

  • 2002 
    University of Melbourne, Doctor of Medicine
  • 1991 
    Monash University, Doctor of Philosophy