Professor Patrick McGorry AO is the Executive Director of Orygen, Professor of Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, and a Founding Director of the National Youth Mental Health Foundation (headspace).
Pat is a psychiatrist known world-wide for his development and scaling up of early intervention and youth mental health services and for mental health innovation, advocacy and reform.
In 2010 Professor McGorry was selected as Australian of the Year, and in our conversation we discuss the current state of mental health services, how we can better connect services and schools and how to bring about a future where we can all do well and be well.
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