Dr Andrew Chanen is a Senior Lecturer at Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Centre for Youth Mental Health, the University of Melbourne. He holds clinical appointments as Associate Medical Director, Orygen Youth Health Clinical Program and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Adolescent Forensic Health Service, Melbourne, Australia.
Andrew established and directs the Helping Young People Early (HYPE) program at Orygen. HYPE is a clinical, research and training program investigating the understanding of and prevention and early intervention for personality disorders, particularly borderline personality disorder in youth.
The HYPE program was recently the Gold Award winner for best specialist mental health service at the Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Service Achievement Awards.
Andrew's published research covers clinical intervention, observational and laboratory studies. His present and past funding includes grants from:
- the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
- the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth)
- Australian Research Council.
Dr Chanen serves on the Editorial Boards of Early Intervention in Psychiatry and Personality and Mental Health.
Andrew is President of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD) and was Chair of the Organising Committee for the 12th International ISSPD congress. He is a member of:
- the ICD-11 Review Group for the Classification of Personality Disorders
- the Australian Government's Expert Reference Group on Borderline Personality Disorder
- the Development Group for the NHMRC Guideline for Borderline Personality Disorder.