Pat McGorry AO is a psychiatrist known worldwide for his development and scaling up of early intervention and youth mental health services, and for mental health innovation, advocacy and reform.
McGorry is professor of youth mental health at the University of Melbourne and founding editor of the journal Early Intervention in Psychiatry.
He led the advocacy that resulted in the Australian Government establishing the National Youth Mental Health Foundation in 2005, which became Headspace in 2006. He remains a founding board member.
McGorry has played a key advocacy and advisory role to government and health system reform in Australia and in many parts of the world. He chaired the Expert Advisory Committee of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System.
He has published more than 1,000 papers, with 51,822 citations and an h-index of 119 (Scopus).
McGorry is president of the International Association for Youth Mental Health, past-president of the Schizophrenia International Research Society, past-president of the Society for Mental Health Research, and founding president and treasurer of the IEPA: Early Intervention in Mental Health.
He was named Australian of the Year in 2010 and appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia. In 2013 he received the Annual Research Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in Washington DC, and in 2015 was awarded the Lieber Prize for Schizophrenia Research by the Brain and Behaviour Foundation. In 2016 he became the first psychiatrist elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. In 2018 he received the Schizophrenia International Research Society Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2019 the Humanitarian Award of the Society of Biological Psychiatry and the NHMRC Research Excellence Award.
