ADHD Conference 2022

Dave Coghill is the Financial Markets Foundation Chair of Developmental Mental Health and Deputy Head of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne. Previously he was Professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Dundee. His research focuses on increasing understanding of child and adolescent mental health using a range of approaches including longitudinal observational studies and big data approaches, neuropsychopharmacology, clinical trials, pharmacoepidemiology and patient reported outcomes. He has maintained a strong clinical presence developing clinical pathways that facilitate the rapid transfer of research evidence into routine clinical practice. His clinical work is split between the Royal Children’s Hospital and Orygen Youth Health.

We have the pleasure of hearing Dave present twice throughout the day: The diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD: Perspectives on the new ADHD Guidelines as well as ADHD in Youth.

Professor Stephen Houghton is Professor and Director of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Clinic at The University of Western Australia and a Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde, School of Psychological and Health Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland. He is a registered psychologist with an international reputation in the leadership of multi-site large-scale research projects in child and adolescent developmental psychopathology. He has been Chief Investigator on over 20 externally competitive funded research projects and has over 200 high-quality journal publications to his credit. Professor Houghton has successfully supervised over 130 Higher Degree thesis students to completion and has conducted numerous invited international conference presentations. He is widely reported in the international media. He is a recipient of a National Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Excellence in University Teaching Award (Social Sciences Category), and an ALTC Citation for Outstanding Contribution to University Student Learning. He was also a recipient of the UWA Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Award for distinguished achievement in research, scholarship, and sustained career excellence.

Professor Stephen Houghton is presenting: The COVID Generation: the effects of the pandemic on the mental health of adolescents.

Professor Wai Chen is Professor of Youth Mental Health and Developmental Neuropsychiatry, Fiona Stanley Hospital, WA. He is Professor, Psychiatry Discipline Lead, Curtin Medical School, Curtin University. He is also adjunct professor, Graduate School of Education, UWA; adjunct professor, School of Medicine (Fremantle), Notre Dame University Australia, WA; and adjunct professor, Department of Psychology and Exercise Science, Murdoch University. He is a member of the international Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) consortium. He completed his s M.Phil. at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, before a PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London.

His research is in the areas of ADHD, neurodevelopmental disorders, emotional dysregulation, dissociation, treatments, resilience, and social recovery in children, adolescents and youths.
He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, with over 7000 citations. In 2010, he was jointly awarded the BMA Medical Book Awards: ‘Highly Commended’–for “Living with ADHD”. He served between 2011-2013 as an external peer reviewer for the DSM-5 Clinical and Public Health Committee (DSM-5 CPHC) during the DSM-5 revision.

In recent years, he served as a member of the State-wide Mental Health Research Strategy Advisory Group, WA; and also, as a member of the Interagency Expert Advisory Group of the Ministerial Taskforce into Public Mental Health Services for Infants, Children and Adolescents in Western Australia.

He has contributed the chapter on Child Neuropsychiatry in the Oxford Textbook of Neuropsychiatry (Oxford University Press), and has been commissioned to author a book on ADHD, by invitation from Sage Publication, London. In 2022, one of his publications on ADHD was cited by DSM-5-TR to support text revision (TR) on the ADHD section published in the electronic version of DSM-5-TR.

Dr. Belinda Oddy commenced her medical training at the University of Melbourne and was awarded a Commonwealth Academic Scholarship. After completing her internship at the RBWH in 2010 she commenced psychiatric training with advanced training in Consultation-Liaison and Addiction Psychiatry. After undertaking a fellowship year in pain medicine at the Professor Tess Cramond Multidisciplinary Pain Centre at the RBWH in 2018, Belinda has worked in both public and private practice, where she has developed an interest in working with people who have ADHD. She has undertaken research previously in the field of women’s mental health.

Dr Oddy utilises an evidence-based approach to provide a holistic approach to patient care.  This includes medication, talking therapies and lifestyle and social interventions.

Areas of interest:

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults
• Substance Use Disorders
• Mood Disorders:
  Depression including Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder
• Anxiety Disorders:
  Including Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Social Phobia

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Martha presents: The worst/best of me: ADHD in real life