Dr Lee-Anne Perry AM
Executive Director - QCEC
Prior to her appointment as Executive Director of the Queensland Catholic Education Commission, Dr Lee-Anne Perry AM served as Principal of All Hallows’ School, Brisbane (1999-2015), Mt Alvernia College, Kedron (1993-1998) and Mt Carmel College, Wynnum (1990-1992), following a teaching career in state and Catholic schools in New South Wales and Queensland.
Dr Perry has served as executive member and president of the Association of Principals of Catholic Secondary Schools, Queensland and the Mercy Secondary Educators Association (Australasia). She is a former governing board member of the Queensland Studies Authority (QSA).
Jane
Burns 
Associate
Professor Jane Burns is the founder and CEO of the Young and Well Cooperative
Research Centre, an organisation that unites young people with researchers,
practitioners and innovators to explore the role of technology in improving
mental health and wellbeing for young people aged 12 to 25. The establishment of the Young and
Well CRC is a culmination of Jane’s work in suicide and depression prevention
which has focused on international and national partnerships with academic,
government, corporate, philanthropic, not-for-profit and community sectors.
Jane
holds a Principal Research Fellowship at Orygen, The National Centre of
Excellence in Youth Mental Health and an Honorary Fellowship at the Brain &
Mind Research Institute. She has led the youth agenda for beyondblue, was a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow at the
University of California, San Francisco, and was Director of International
Partnerships at ReachOut.com by Inspire Foundation. Jane held a VicHealth
fellowship from 2006-2013, an NHMRC fellowship from 1997-2000, and an NHMRC
scholarship from 1994-1996. She holds a PhD in Medicine from the Faculty of
Medicine (Public Health and Epidemiology) University of Adelaide.
Jane’s
work focuses on driving positive change
and development in the mental health sector, with a priority on translational
research that ensures relevance for young people, the community and the mental
health sector at large. Jane provides
strategic advice to the government and NGO sector and is a member of more than
10 advisory boards and government working group such as the Online Safety CWG,
Department of Veteran Affairs CRG and the e-Mental
Health Advisory Committee. Jane has published widely in over 50 peer-reviewed papers, technical reports and briefs and spoken at over 500 conferences and
community forums.
Jane
was recently announced a winner in the category of Social Enterprise and
Not-for-profit for 2015’s Australian Financial Review and Westpac Group 100
Women of Influence, and was a Victorian Finalist in the 2012 Telstra Business
Women's Awards. Jane is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company
Directors.
Cameron
Francis
Cameron
Francis is a Social Worker with fifteen years experience in the youth alcohol
and other drug sector. Working in a range of capacities in non-government and
government agencies, Cameron’s previous positions have included outreach, peer
education, needle and syringe program work and as individual counsellor for
young people experiencing alcohol and other drug use issues. In his current
role, Cameron provides training and support to people working in the youth and
AOD sector in Queensland.
Stan Steindl
Director of Psychology
Consultants Pty Ltd, Stan has been a registered psychologist and practicing
clinical psychologist since 1993, and works full-time in private practice. He
has completed a PhD examining the relationship between posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) and alcohol dependence among people suffering from
combat-related trauma. Stan has broad private practice experience working with
men, women, adolescents, couples and families. He has also worked extensively
with war veterans and other sufferers of stress and trauma, such as motor
vehicle accident victims and victims of crime. His areas of interest include the
treatment of anxiety, depression, stress and trauma, alcohol, drug, and smoking
addictions, work-related stress and adjustment difficulties, grief and loss,
and anger management problems. In 2007, Stan travelled to the United States
several times to develop his skills as a trainer in Motivational Interviewing,
becoming a member of MINT. He is currently rolling out a national training
program through the National Heart Foundation on the topic of Motivational
Interviewing, as well as providing training for a range of other organisations
and public workshops. He is an experienced trainer for corporate and government
organisations in a number of specialist clinical psychology and counseling
topics. A Clinical Consultant and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychology, The
University of Queensland, Stan provides supervision for post-graduate students
carrying out internal clinical placement within the university clinics and
teaching into the postgraduate clinical psychology program. He also provides
private supervision of psychologists, social workers and others in the
counselling and allied health fields.
Sharon
Dawe
Sharon Dawe is a Professor in Clinical
Psychology at Griffith University and an Adjunct Professor at the Australian
Centre for Child Protection, University South Australia and an Honorary
Professor, Warwick University (UK). She has been working as a researcher and
clinician in the field of substance misuse and mental health for over 20 years
at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London (UK), National Drug and
Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW and now Griffith University, Brisbane on a range
of clinical interventions for heroin, alcohol and other substance misuse. Her
most recent work involves the development and evaluation of the Parents
Under Pressure (PUP) program in collaboration with Paul H Harnett
(University of Queensland). This program has been adopted across Australia and
is currently undergoing rigorous evaluation in the UK funded by the National
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). Sharon is passionate
about improving the outcomes for children living in adverse circumstances
through enhancing family capacity to manage difficult life situations.
Matt
Gullo
Dr Matthew Gullo is a
Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research, The
University of Queensland. He also holds an appointment as Visiting Senior
Clinical Psychologist at the Alcohol and Drug Assessment Unit, Princess
Alexandra Hospital. Matthew's research focuses on the cognitive and
neuropsychological mechanisms involved in impulse control and substance abuse.
He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications and was the
recipient of the Early Career Researcher award from both the Australian
Psychological Society and Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and
other Drugs. Matthew is currently supported by a prestigious National Health
and Medical Research Council Early Career Fellowship. He is a registered
clinical psychologist and member of the Australian Psychological Society
College of Clinical Psychologists.
Genevieve Dingle
Dr Genevieve
Dingle is a registered clinical psychologist who has worked for over a decade
with adults and adolescents experiencing a range of mental health issues and
addiction. In her current role as a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and
Director of the UQ Psychology Clinic, Genevieve teaches evidence based
psychotherapies to postgraduate and undergraduate students as well as a course
in music psychology to honours students. Genevieve’s research is focused on
social and emotional theories and interventions for emotional disorders and
substance misuse, and in enhancing emotional recognition and regulation
capacity among adolescents and young adults. She developed the Tuned In program that uses participants’
own music listening as a platform for evoking emotions in session and enhancing
understanding and regulation of emotional states, which has demonstrated
effectiveness for young adults (Dingle & Fay, under review) and adolescents
in educational settings (Dingle, Hodges & Kunde, under review). Further
information on Genevieve’s research is available at http://www.psy.uq.edu.au/directory/index.html?id=1146.
Jeanie
Sheffield
Dr Jeanie Sheffield is a lecturer in
the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland and teaches into the
postgraduate training of clinical psychology students. Her research interests are in the areas of
working with children and adolescents around the issues of preventing or
reducing mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, and eating
disorders and in promoting mental health and building resilience in young
people. She has researched both
traditional and web-based approaches for addressing a range of mental health
problems or medical conditions. She also
works in developing and delivering interventions aimed at improving child and
parent outcomes in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and with other
specific needs. She is currently working
with other researchers to develop and evaluate a novel web-based delivery of an
ACT-based parenting program for parents of children with Cerebral Palsy. She has worked
in high schools around Brisbane developing and implementing programs to build
resilience in students. As a result of
this work she has also established ongoing
collaborations with beyondblue around
issues related to depression and anxiety in children and adolescents and has
been funded by them to produce the SenseAbility curriculum materials that were
given national distribution. She also
runs a small private practice at The
University of Queensland where she treats children, adolescents and their
families, and adults with a variety of mental health problems.
Freya Reynolds
Freya is an Educational and Developmental Psychologist working within hospital based
Child Youth Mental Health Services in Brisbane. Freya has a broad range of
clinical experience including working as a Primary and High School Guidance
Counsellor, Child Safety Officer and as a Youth Worker in residential foster
care. Freya has facilitated mindfulness
training for professionals from a range of different agency settings. In her workshops, Freya draws on her experience in facilitating mindfulness and ACT
groups for children, adolescents and parents in educational and mental health
settings. Her research into whole class mindfulness interventions in schools
also lays a solid framework for understanding the theory, evidence base and
challenges in the application of mindfulness interventions for children and adolescents.
Belinda Khong
Belinda Khong is a Multicultural Mental Health Coordinator (MMHC) at the Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) in the Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS). She has been working in the field of transcultural mental health for more than 10 years. Her interest in cultural and linguistic differences started after reading a newspaper article about differences in processing speeds between Chinese students and American students. It was suggested that the differences may be attributed to the differences in language of these two groups. Having worked many years as a psychologist delivering direct clinic services, Belinda is delighted to now have the opportunity to share her knowledge and experience with people who are interested in learning more about working with people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds.