Professor Philip Hazell is Conjoint Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with the Sydney Medical School. He is in addition Director of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services for the Sydney Local Health District and Director of the Rivendell Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Service.
Philip completed his undergraduate medical training with the University of Otago in 1980 and trained in general psychiatry and child psychiatry in Adelaide, South Australia from 1983 to 1989. From 1989 to 1998 Philip was Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry with the University of Newcastle, and then until 2006 he was Clinical Director of the Child and Youth Mental Health Service, Hunter New England Mental Health Service.