Contact Details
- Phone
- +64 3 474 0999 extn 57372
- charlie.mentzel@otago.ac.nz
- Position
- Senior Lecturer
- Department
- Department of Psychological Medicine (Dunedin)
- Qualifications
- MD PhD vocationally trained psychiatrist
- Research summary
- Practical research into improving psychiatric practice especially movement disorders
- Teaching
- I'm the convenor for the psychological medicine module for the 6th year medical students. I am interested in service-user involvement in education and improving professionalism among students.
- Memberships
- Curriculum map subcommittee
- Clinical
- Inpatient psychiatrist 0.5 fte
Research
I have a PhD on the course recognition and treatment of movement disorders in severe mental illness. Since coming to Dunedin I'm involved in projects on functional movement disorders, complaints on inpatient wards, service user-led teaching for medical students and the analysis of large datasets.