Meet our panel of medical specialists

Professor Siskind trained as a psychiatrist in Australia and the United States. He works clinically as a psychiatrist in Brisbane, Australia with people with treatment-refractory schizophrenia. His research interests include treatment-refractory schizophrenia, clozapine and the physical health comorbidities associated with schizophrenia. He has over 300 publications and AU$60million in competitive research grants, with over AU$7 million as CIA... read more »

Professor Malcolm Hopwood is the Ramsay Health Care Professor of Psychiatry, at the University of Melbourne; based at the Ramsay Clinic Albert Road in Melbourne, Australia. He specialises in clinical aspects of mood and anxiety disorders, psychopharmacology, and psychiatric aspects of acquired brain injury. In the past, he led the Psychological Trauma Recovery Service, incorporating the Veterans Psychiatry Unit and the Victorian Brain Disorders Program, Austin Health. He has held senior positions within the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, including past Chairmanships of the Victorian Branch and the Board of Research, and was President of the College from 2015–2017. He is the immediate Past president of the Asian Federation of Psychiatric Associations (AFPA). .. read more »