e-Mental Health
Conference Convenors
Professor Sally Chan
Deputy Director, Priority Research Centre, Brain and Mental Health Research, University of Newcastle, Australia
Professor Sally Chan is a global healthcare educator and researcher with more than 25 years’ experience in the university sector. She played an integral role in promoting the University’s nursing and healthcare research globally through developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with research partners in universities, hospitals and health providers in countries all over the world including Singapore, Thailand, China, Europe and the United Kingdom. Having featured in more than 400 international publications and presentations, Professor Chan’s passion for combining research, education and practice has significantly impacted nursing education, mental healthcare policy and service delivery across the globe.
Dr Agatha Corad
Senior Research Development Officer, Hunter New England Mental Health
Dr Agatha Conrad is a senior Research Development Officer for Hunter New England Mental Health. Dr Conrad holds a PhD in psychology and Doctorate in clinical psychology. She is also a registered clinical psychologist and is a conjoint Lecturer at the University of Newcastle.
Dr Conrad is part of the Mental Health - Research, Evaluation, Analysis & Dissemination (MH-READ) unit, which has a brokerage and research/evalaution management and support role to all HNE MH staff and affiliated researchers. MH-READ unit is based at the University of Newcastle Priority Research Centre (PRC) for Brain & Mental Health Research (CBMHR).
Dr Sally Hunt
Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle
Dr Sally Hunt is a Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia, where she trains post-graduate psychologists. She has worked both clinically and in a research capacity in the field of mental health for over 20 years, and completed her PhD in 2015. Sally’s research examines the relationship between substance use and mental health disorders, with a focus on developing and disseminating eHealth interventions for these problems. Sally was the recipient of the 2018 Australian Rotary Health Impact Award for her work on the development and dissemination of the eCliPSE program to increase access to evidence-based eHealth interventions for co-occurring mental health and substance use problems. Currently Sally is leading research into the increasing use of alcohol by Australian women and the development of an online intervention to support women’s health and well-being and is a current University of Newcastle Women in Research Fellow.
Members
Professor Alan Brichta
Director, Priority Research Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research
Professor Alan Brichta's primary research interest is balance and the vestibular system. His recent research has focused on the efferent branch of the vestibular system – the pathway by which the brain can modulate inner ear sensitivity.
Ms Angela Hawke
Manager, Priority Research Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research
Ms Angela Hawke is the Centre Manager at The University of Newcastle’s Priority Research Centre for Brain & Mental Health (CBMHR). CBMHR is a cross-disciplinary group of leading researchers from diverse fields, united by a common goal: To understand (and modify) brain function and factors that influence mental health problems at the molecular, cellular, systems, behavioural, and social levels of analysis. Ms Hawke is also a registered pharmacist, specialising in consultant pharmacy. She undertook her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at The University of Newcastle, completing a Bachelor of Biomedical Science and a Master of Pharmacy (Merit). She is a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) and the Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacy (AACP).
Conjoint Associate Professor Carmel Loughland
Acting Director, Everymind
Associate Professor Carmel Loughland holds the position of Lead, Translational Mental Health Research with the Hunter New England Mental Health Service, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, is a senior member of the Priority Research Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, and Director of the Visuo-cognition Laboratory overseeing psychophysiology (eye tracking) research focusing on social cognition, face processing disturbances, and rehabilitation in people with mental ill-health. She is also a senior registered psychologist with several years clinical experience in public and private practice, a Psychology Board of Australia authorised supervisor of probationary psychologists, and a registered Justice of the Peace in NSW Australia.
Professor David Perkins
Director, Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle
Professor David Perkins is Director of the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle, which is based in Orange, NSW. The Centre adopts a translational research approach to the promotion of mental health, the development of mental health services and the prevention of suicide. He has held academic positions in Australia and the UK and was a senior NHS manager. He is co-director of the International Foundation for Integrated Care Australia and served as a member of the international IFIC Board. An active researcher, he is an associate editor of the International Journal of Integrated Care and immediate past Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of Rural Health. He is a member of a number of national and state advisory bodies on rural mental health and wellbeing. Most recently he was the coordinator of the Orange Declaration on Rural Mental Health which seeks to reframe national and international approaches to rural mental health services.
Dr Zoi Triandafilidis
Senior Project Officer, Mental Health and Research, Everymind
Dr Zoi Triandafilidis is a Senior Project Officer at Everymind, and a Conjoint Fellow with the School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, at the University of Newcastle. In 2018 she completed a PhD at Western Sydney University’s Translational Health Research Institute, exploring young women’s experiences of cigarette smoking. She has an interest in mental health, suicide prevention, family and friend carers, women’s health, and knowledge translation, and has conducted qualitative and qualitative research and evaluation at Carers NSW, the Black Dog Institute, and Western Sydney University’s School of Nursing and Midwifery.
Tony Wang
Project Officer, Global Engagement and Partnership Division, University of Newcastle
Tony is the Project Officer for the conference, he provides high level administrative and technical support, as well as digital platforms maintenance and stakeholders management.
Tony previously held the position of Research Assistant and Administrative Officer at the School of Nursing and Midwifery and Project Officer at Confucius Institute and Greater China team here at the University of Newcastle. He brings his extensive working experiences in industry partnership and project management to the global engagement and partnership division.
In partnership with:
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.