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At Meeting for Minds, we believe that progress in mental health comes from connection — between lived experience and leading-edge science.
This page honours the Very Special people who have walked this path with us, contributing their expertise, insight, and dedication to building a better understanding of Mental Illness and The Human Brain.
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MARIA HALPHEN
Founder - Meeting for Minds
Founder of Meeting for Minds / Philanthropist whose friendship with Susie Hincks and witnessing her trauma with undiagnosed Schizophrenia inspired her to create Meeting for Minds to help Others
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KEITH WILSON
Director of Meeting for Minds,
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JENNY ALLEN
CEO Youth Focus, Board Member of Ministerial Council on Suicide Prevention, Youth Focus
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PROFESSOR MAXWELL BENNETT
Professor of Neuroscience and Scientific Director, Brain & Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney
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HEATH BLACK
Retired AFL footballer with Bipolar Disorder, community educator in suicide prevention, Lived Experience
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TOM CALMA
Associate Professor Tom Calma | Adjunct Associate Professor
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PROFESSOR RAFAEL CALVO
Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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PROFESSOR HELEN CHRISTENSEN
Executive Director. Black Dog Institute , University of NSW
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NEIL COLE
Former Victorian Parliamentarian, Playwright who publicly revealed his bipolar mood disorder and now Associate Professor, Victorian Mental Health Research Institute
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MS MARGARET DOHERTY
Caregiver of Person with Lived Experience of Mental Illness | Founder & Chairperson of Mental Health Matters 2
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PROFESSOR PHILIPPE FOSSATI
Co-Leader, Social and Affective
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PROFESSOR GEOFFREY GALLOP
Director of the School of Government and former Premier of Western Australia from which position he resigned following the onset of major depression, School of Government, University of Sydney
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NICK GLOZIER
Associate Professor in the Disciplines of Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine, University of Sydney
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PROFESSOR KATHY GRIFFITHS
Director of the Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University
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PROFESSOR ADAM GUASTELLA
Clinical Psychologist and Principal Research Fellow, Brain and Mind Research Institute
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MS KERRY HAWKINS
Caregiver for her husband with paranoid schizophrenia and Board Member, Richmond Fellowship WA
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PROFESSOR IAN HICKIE
Director, Brain & Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ITAMAR KAHN
Brain System Organisation & Neurodegeneration, Technion University , Israel
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PROFESSOR JULIO LICINIO
Deputy Director, Translational Medicine and Head Mind and Brain Theme, South Australian Medical Research Institute
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MS LYN MAHBOUB
trategic Recovery Advisor and Manager, Hearing Voices Network Australia, Richmond Fellowship of WA
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PROFESSOR PAUL FITZGERALD
Professor, Monash University Central Clinical School and The Alfred
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JANE BURNS
Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, YAWCRC
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PROFESSOR VERA MORGAN
Head of the Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology Research Unit, University of Western Australia's School of Psychiatry and NeurosciencesDescription goes here
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ASYA ROLLS
Assistant Professor, Rappaport School of Medicine at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
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PROFESSOR PANKAJ SAH
Deputy Director (Research) and Founding Member, Queensland Brain Institute
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PROFESSOR NORMAN SATROTIUS
President, and former Director of the WHO Division of Mental Health, Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programs , Geneva
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PROFESSOR MICHAL SCHWARTZ
Professor of Neuro-immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israe
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PROFESSOR FIONA STANLEY
Professor Fiona Stanley AC FAA FASSA, Patron and Founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
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DR NORMAN SWAN
Head of the Health Report on ABC Radio National, multi-award winning broadcaster and journalist, ABC Radio NationalDescription goes here
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DR STEVE WILSON
Chairman, Council of General Practise at Australian Medical Association
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PROFESSOR CINDI SHANNON WEICKERT
DescriptiMacquarie Group Foundation Chair of Schizophrenia Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of NSWon goes here
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JACKIE CROWE
Commissioner, National Mental Health Commission, Australiaescription goes here
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DR PER HAMID GHATAN
Senior Physician in Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Meeting for Minds Medical Leader and Advisor in Sweden
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MR SIMON DENEGRI
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) National Director for Patients and the Public in Research and Chair, INVOLVE, UK
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PROFESSOR ILANA KREMER
Director of Mazor (Mazra) Mental Health Center and the Technion Haifa, Israel
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DR ANNE-MARIE ENGEL
Director of Research at Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark
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DR MICHELLE BANFIELD
Research Fellow, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australia
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KRIS HAROLD
General Manager of BNJ Catalano Pty Ltd Austra
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EMERITUS PROFESSOR SIMON FORREST
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CELIA HAMMOND
Patron
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DEB LANGRIDGE
Head of CCIProgram, Western Australian Health Translation Network
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DR STEPHEN BRIGHT
Clinically-trained Psychologist | Drugs | Research | Psychedelics | Harm Reduction | Media
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DR VINESH GUPTA
Psychiatrist / Co-Director Royal Perth & Bentley Group of Hospitals
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NAOMI CARTER
Principal, Western Australian Recovery College at HelpingMinds
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PROFESSOR PAT DUDGEON
Research Fellow, Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, School of Indigenous Studies, UWA
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ELIZABETH SCOTT
Principal Research Fellow and Academic Lead BMC Youth Model, Faculty of Medicine &
Health, Translational Research Collective Brain and Mind Centre, Youth Mental Health &
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PROFESSOR ANTHONY AKKARI
Chief Scientific Officer at Black Swan Pharmaceuticals
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PROFESSOR SEAN HOOD
Head, Division of Psychiatry, UWA Medical School, The University of Western Australia
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PROFESSOR RONY PAZ
Assistant Prof. at Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel
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DARREN SEIVWRIGHT
Commander at Western Australia Police
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PROFESSOR MOHAN ISAAC
Professor of psychiatry at The University of Western Australia
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DR HARRIS EYRE
Advancing the Brain Economy 🌎🧠 Lead of Neuro-Policy & Senior Fellow @ Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy | Adjunct @ UCSF
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PROFESSOR MICHAELA LUCAS
Immunopathologist/Immunologist at Health Department Western Australia
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HON. DR BRIAN WALKER
MLC, Legalise Cannabis WA
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MARTIN PHILIP
Body Percussion expert
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TANYA PIDGEON
Digital Crisis Responder at Lifeline WA with expertise in Trauma Informed Care
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THOMAS KABIR
Head of Public Involvement in Research, McPin Foundation, UK, Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford
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EMERITUS PROFESSOR ALAN HARVEY
Emeritus Professor at The University of Western Australia
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PROFESSOR MICAH M. MURRAY
Associate professor at the University of Lausanne and Director of the Neurophysiological Investigations Laboratory (LINE), Department of Radiology, Vaud University Hospital and University of Lausanne
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PROFESSOR GREGOR HASLER
Professor of Psychiatry, Fribourg University, Switzerland
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PROFESSOR ISABELLE MANSUY, PhD
Isabelle M Mansuy currently works at the University and ETH Zurich. Isabelle does research in Neuroepigenetics and studies the mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance in mammal
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DR KIRSTINA ROHDE, PhD
Certified psychotherapist and post-doc researcher. Head of a psychiatric outpatient unit; as a researcher, affiliated to the University of Bern.