Dr Mary Emeleus
Psychiatry Trainee
Mary is currently a Stage 3 psychiatry trainee in Queensland, with prior background as a GP and medical educator. She completed her GP training in FNQ and worked as a GP in Ravenshoe and Townsville. Having always held a strong interest in mental health, she completed a Masters in Psychotherapy in 2004. Mary later spent nine years working in youth mental health at headspace sites in Townsville and Cairns, and commenced Psychiatry training in 2017.
Mary has been active in teaching mental health skills to medical students, psychiatry registrar colleagues, GP registrars and GPs, through the Australian Society for Psychological Medicine and JCU-GP Training. She is passionate about interdisciplinary collaboration and supporting rural and remote practitioners, and has been involved with the Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN) as a facilitator of their webinars for some years.
Associate Professor Chris Ryan
Psychiatrist
Chris is the Director of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Sydney's Westmead Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. Though his work is primarily clinical, Chris maintains an active research programme and has numerous publications on a range of topics in psychiatry, law and ethics, including a focus on the assessment and management of people who raise concerns about possible suicide.