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THANK YOU
The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Women's Mental Health has officially come to its end, after a blockbuster three days.
For anyone who was unable to attend, the full conference will be made available digitally for a small fee in the near future.
Digital access to the conference will also be made available on request and at no cost to all registered attendees.
We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to all presenters and attendees of this year's APWMH Conference for their support and participation.
If you are interested in providing feedback on your experience, we'd love to hear from you!
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Event photography by Futurum Creative
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
MS. GRACE TAME
2021 AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR
Grace Tame is a survivor of child sexual abuse, author, columnist, campaigner and advocate for fellow survivors. She is the Founder of The Grace Tame Foundation (GTF), a not-for-profit organisation which creates and funds initiatives to prevent, disrupt and respond to child sexual abuse. For her contribution to legal reforms that allow child sexual abuse survivors to tell their own stories publicly, Grace was named Australian of the Year in 2021.
In 2022 she released her best-selling memoir, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner, which was shortlisted for three Australia Book Industry Awards. Grace now resides in her hometown of Hobart, regularly competes in ultramarathons around the country and is a regular columnist for publications including The Monthly and The Saturday Paper.
PROFESSOR JAYASHRI KULKARNI AM
DIRECTOR, HER CENTRE AUSTRALIA
Professor Jayashri Kulkarni AM graduated in Medicine from Monash University in 1981 and became a Fellow of the College of Psychiatrists in 1988, commencing her appointment as Professor of Psychiatry at The Alfred and Monash University in 2002. Professor Kulkarni then went on to found and now serves as director of two research centres, HER Centre Australia and the Multidisciplinary Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc), while she also serves as Head of the Department of Psychiatry for the Monash University Central Clinical School and launched Australia’s first women’s mental health hospital at Cabrini Health in September 2021.
Jayashri has conducted ground-breaking clinical research and is internationally acknowledged as a leader and expert in the field of Women’s Mental Health, particularly for her innovative work on reproductive hormones and mental illness. Her world-first research in hormones and mental health has led to the development of new treatments for women with mental ill health, with Professor Kulkarni receiving an Order of Australia (AM) in 2019 for her services to Psychiatry.
DR. J.J. SANDRA KOOIJ
(Virtual Presenter)
AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER/VUMC, THE NETHERLANDS
Dr J.J. Sandra Kooij is a Psychiatrist and Professor specialising in Adult ADHD at Amsterdam University Medical Center/VUmc in The Netherlands.
Dr Kooij is also Head of the Dutch Expertise Center Adult ADHD at PsyQ, both Founder and President of the DIVA Foundation — which distributes the Diagnostic Interview for ADHD in adults (DIVA-5) in 30 languages (www.divacenter.eu) — as well as Chair of the European Network Adult ADHD and of Neurodevelopmental Disorders at EPA.
In 2002, Dr Kooij started a specialised department for adult patients with ADHD and the Dutch Expertise Center adult ADHD at PsyQ, the Hague, where she continues to work today. She is involved in education, lecturing, publishing books and research papers, as well as contributing to webinars and podcasts.
Her research focuses on ADHD in women, ADHD in elderly, and on ADHD, sleep and health.
SENATOR LARISSA WATERS
AUSTRALIAN GREENS
Larissa Waters is the first Greens Senator for Queensland and Leader in the Senate of the Australian Greens. She took office in July 2011 and is the Federal spokesperson on Women and Democracy.
She is passionate about representative democracy and public participation, accountability in government, equality for women, and protecting our environment.
As Leader of the Australian Greens in the Senate, she is working to improve federal laws to put an end to domestic and family violence, promote gender equality and empowerment of women and girls, and clean up politics by ending corporate donations to political parties which buy favours for the big end of town.
Senator Waters now lives in Meanjin (Brisbane) with her two young daughters, the younger of whom caused a bit of a stir when she became the first baby to be breastfed in our federal parliament.
MORE CONFERENCE SPEAKERS:
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Dr. Suzy Redston, Consultant Psychiatrist, Peninsula Health & The Melbourne Clinic
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Dr. David Chapman, Consultant Psychiatrist, HER Centre Australia
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Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Chair, Respect Victoria
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Kate (Katarzyna) Tognarini, Pharmacist and Lived Experience Consultant
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Associate Professor Caroline Gurvich, Deputy Director, HER Centre Australia
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Dr. Sarah Sibson, Founder/CEO, Doc Sibson Consulting & Neurodivergent Collective
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Sophie Cusworth, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA)
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Dr. Tamara May, Senior Research Fellow, Monash University Department of Paediatrics
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Dr. Romi Goldschlager, Psychiatrist, HER Centre Australia
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Karen Goldschlager, Research Assistant, HER Centre Australia
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Dr. Lucia Porta Cubas, Psychiatrist
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Lily Dunn, Lived Experience Consultant, Eating Disorders Victoria
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Dr. Beth Shelton, Director, National Eating Disorder Collaboration (NEDC)
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Dr. Eva Gregertsen, Post-Doctoral Researcher, HER Centre Australia
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Dr Leo Chen, Director of Psychiatry Training, HER Centre Australia
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Dr Karishma Kulkarni, Psychiatrist, Refugee Mental Health Clinic at Foundation House
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Dr. Jenny Babb, Director, Women's Recovery Network (WREN)
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Natalie Spicer, Head of Clinical & Support Services, Butterfly Foundation
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Dr. Karen Williams, Consultant Psychiatrist, Ramsay Clinic & cPTSD Women Unit & Director, Wollongong Women’s Trauma Service
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Maria Bradshaw, Lived Experience Consultant, Women's Recovery Network (WREN)
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Peta Marks, National Programs Manager, InsideOut Institute
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Zoe Francis, Strategic Policy & Advocacy Advisor: Gender Equality & Mental Wellbeing, WHISE (Women's Health in the South East)
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Sharon Sherwood, Chief of Mental Health & Cabrini Outreach, Cabrini Health
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Sophia Redjeb, Lived Experience Consultant
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Associate Professor Sathya Rao, Executive Director, Spectrum
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Dr. Astha Tomar, Director of Clinical Services, Orygen, & President-Elect, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)
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Dr. Caroline Lloyd, General Practitioner, Cabrini Women’s Mental Health - the Lisa Thurin Women’s Health Centre
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Megan Dickinson, Founder, The Live Life Whole Project
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Kristin Bouse, Founder & Director, All About Her - The Centre for Menopause
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Janet Michelmore AO, Jean Hailes for Women's Health
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Dr. Nardia Zendarski, HER Centre Australia
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Sharryn Muir, Clinical Psychologist, Northern Psychology Centre
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Aimee Oliveri, Clinical Psychologist, Gidget Foundation Australia
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Dr. Sze Lee, Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Epworth Women's and Children's Clinical Institute
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Oria Low (They/Them), Lived Experience Consultant
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Professor Melinda Rackham (She/They), Lived Experience Consultant
CONFERENCE PARTNERS
CONFERENCE SUPPORTERS
CONFERENCE SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS
We respectfully acknowledge that the Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Women's Mental Health is taking place on the Traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation, and HER Centre Australia pays respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.