Australian of
the Year 2010
Professor Patrick McGorry
Mental health expert
A 21st century approach to mental health care
Professor Patrick McGorry is a leading international researcher,
clinician and advocate for the youth mental health reform
agenda.
He is Executive Director of Orygen Youth Health (OYH), 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.
OYH 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 founding board member of headspace,
the National Youth Mental Health Foundation. 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.
His extraordinary 27-year contribution to the improvement of the
youth mental health sector has transformed the lives of tens of
thousands of young people the world over.
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