Patrick D. McGorry, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRANZCP, is Professor of Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and Director of Orygen Youth Health and Orygen Youth Health Research Centre in Victoria, Australia. Prof McGorry received his medical degree from the University of Melbourne and his doctorate from Monash University in Victoria, Australia. He is a world-leading researcher in the area of early psychosis and youth mental health. Prof McGorry’s work has played an integral role in the development of safe, effective treatments and innovative research involving the needs of young people with emerging mental disorders, notably psychotic and severe mood disorders.
Orygen Youth Health’s early psychosis service, known as EPPIC, was founded by Prof McGorry in 1992, and has been hugely influential internationally. Its evidence-based model has been exported to many countries, and early intervention in psychosis has become one of the major growth points in international mental health reform. Orygen Youth Health’s 240 clinical and research staff offer leading expertise in early psychosis, mood, substance use, and personality disorders. Orygen Youth Health provides clinical services to more than 700 young people at any one time. The Orygen Youth Health Research Centre is currently running 44 psychiatry research projects across a broad range of issues.
Prof. McGorry has published over 300 papers and book chapters and has edited 5 books. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Australian Government Centenary Medal in 2003 and the Founders’ Medal of the Australian Society for Psychiatric Research in 2001. Prof McGorry serves as Editor-in-Chief of Early Intervention in Psychiatry and is Chair of the Executive Committee for the National Youth Mental Health Foundation: headspace and Treasurer of the International Early Psychosis Association.
More recently he has been invited to attend the US/Canada Policy think tank on youth mental health. He has also played a major role in mental health reform in Australia as a main adviser to the Because mental health matters: Victorian Mental Health Reform Strategy 2009-19. As well as his contributions to the field of early psychosis, Professor McGorry has interests in the homeless, refugees and torture survivors, youth suicide, youth substance use and the treatment of emerging personality disorder.
