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Staff in the Department of Psychological Medicine are enthusiastic about research, teaching and clinical practice.
The core academic staff includes psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, a family therapist, and a service user academic. In addition, senior clinicians from our two local DHBs (Hutt Valley and Capital and Coast) as well as Midcentral DHB and the Hawkes Bay DHB are also engaged as Senior Clinical Lecturers.
Our research programme is configured around several themes relevant to mental health practice in the New Zealand setting:
- Physical health of people with mental illness, including obesity and sleep
- Mental health service delivery and evaluation, including in primary care and secondary care
- The interface between psychological and physical health
- Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
- Suicide
- Recovery
- Service user-led and co-produced research and teaching
- Personality and its role in mental illness
- Education in the clinical professions
- Addictions
- Self-management
- Mental health law
- Stigma and discrimination
We take pride in our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes. Undergraduate medical students receive mental health teaching in all three clinical years they spend at the University of Otago, Wellington, including a specific service user-led and recovery focused programme. We provide a range of postgraduate courses, including the seminar series for doctors training in psychiatry (registrars).
Contact
Tel +64 4 385 5541 ext 5653
Fax +64 4 389 5725
Email kristy.wilson@otago.ac.nz
Postal address
Department of Psychological Medicine
University of Otago, Wellington
PO Box 7343
Wellington 6242
New Zealand
Physical address
Department of Psychological Medicine
Level J
University of Otago, Wellington
23A Mein Street, Newtown
Wellington 6021
New Zealand
