Hormones and Women's Mental Health | Lunch & Learn educational webinar

Lunch & Learn Education Webinar
Friday 24 November 2023, 2:00pm - 3:00pm AEDT (Melbourne)
Recording will be uploaded to MHFA YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Menta...

Topic: Hormones and Women's Mental Health
Presenter: Prof Jayashri Kulkarni MBBS MPM PhD FRANZCP FAHMS AM
Link to join webinar:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8826...

Professor Jayashri Kulkarni AM graduated in Medicine from Monash University in 1981 and became a Fellow of the College of Psychiatrists in 1988. Jayashri commenced her appointment as Professor of Psychiatry at The Alfred and Monash University in 2002.

Professor Kulkarni founded and directs two research centres – HER Centre Australia and the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc). She is also Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Central Clinical School, Monash University -Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences.

Jayashri has conducted ground-breaking clinical research and is internationally acknowledged as a leader and expert in the field of Women’s Mental Health, in particular, 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. She developed and launched Australia’s first women’s mental health hospital at Cabrini Health in September 2021.

Jayashri received an Order of Australia (AM) in 2019 for her services to Medicine.