Paul Fitzgerald

Paul Fitzgerald is Director of the Epworth Centre for Innovation in Mental Health based at Epworth Camberwell and Professor of Psychiatry at Monash University. He is a qualified psychiatrist, has a Masters of Psychological Medicine and research PhD.

His main clinical and academic interest is in the development, evaluation and clinical translation of new therapies for mental health conditions. He has conducted over twenty clinical trials in depression, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, PTSD, autism and Alzheimer’s disease along with over 50 experimental studies. He has established multiple clinical TMS services, is a founder and board member of TMS Clinics Australia, and established Australia’s first TMS clinical training program. He has had continual NHMRC grant support for almost 20 years and over $10 million in research support in the last 5 years.