Borderline Personality Disorder

Panellists

• OAM Janne McMahon
  
  Profession: Consumer advocate
  Based in: Adelaide, SA

  Janne McMahon OAM has worked within the mental health area as a consumer advocate since 1997. She founded the Private Mental Health Consumer Carer Network (Australia) in 2002 which is a recognised national organisation.

  Janne has appeared before six parliamentary inquiries, is currently and has been a member of a number of Australian Government Committees and Expert Reference Groups including that for Borderline Personality Disorder as well as many other national mental health Reference Groups, Steering Committees, Working Parties and Boards.

  In 2008 Janne was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in recognition of her advocacy work.



• Dr Christine McAuliffe
  
  Profession: GP
  Based in: Brisbane, QLD

  Dr Chris McAuliffe is a Brisbane based General Practitioner. She is GP Adviser for Primary Mental Health Care with the Australian Divisions of General Practice. Chris has a strong interest in primary mental health care.



• Dr Christopher Lee
  
  Qualifications: B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Sc, PhD.
  Profession: Director
  Based in: Perth, WA

  Dr Christopher Lee was Senior Clinical Psychologist at a major teaching hospital in Perth (Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital) for 11 years where he set up the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) treatment team for Borderline Personality Disorders (BPD).

  He is now programme chair in clinical psychology at Murdoch University. He has had extensive training from leading figures in DBT, and has been accredited in Schema Focused Therapy by the International Society of Schema Therapists.

  Chris has conducted workshops in treating personality disorders throughout Australia and overseas for the last 15 years. He is involved in research on personality disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder. He has published in the areas of personality assessment and the treatment of PTSD.

  He has received international awards for research excellence for his work in PTSD.  He is a principal investigator for an International Multi-centre Randomised Control Trial on BPD. He currently sits on the BPD expert reference group advising the federal minister for health. 



• Dr Andrew Chanen
  
  Profession: Director; Senior Lecturer
  Based in: Melbourne, VIC

  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. 

Slides

Borderline Personality Disorder

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