SSMRF Annual Celebration Dinner

Special guest and Keynote Speaker Professor Gordon Parker AO

Join St George & Sutherland Medical Research Foundation on 4 April 2025 at our Annual Celebration Dinner recognising our 2024 Research Grant Recipients.

Bring your family, friends, and colleagues, and together, we will hear from our special guest and keynote speaker, the highly esteemed Professor Gordon Parker AO, all while enjoying a delicious two-course meal and drinks!

About Professor Gordon Parker AO

Professor Gordon Parker AO is Scientia Professor of Psychiatry, UNSW, was Founder of the Black Dog Institute and its initial Executive Director, Head of the School of Psychiatry at UNSW, Director of the Division of Psychiatry at Prince of Wales Hospital and Area Director of Psychiatry in the South-Eastern area.  His positions with the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists include having been Editor of its Journal and initiating its Quality Assurance Committee. Positions with legal organizations include the NSW Guardianship Board and the NSW Administrative Appeals Tribunal.  

In 2004 he received a Citation Laureate as the Australian Scientist most highly cited in ‘Psychiatry/Psychology’. In 2018 he received the prestigious James Cook Medal from the Royal Society of New South Wales and was a finalist for the NSW Senior Australian of the Year. He was recipient of the 2020 Australian Mental Health Prize. His research and clinical practice have focussed on mood disorders. His 25th book on a radical new therapy for bipolar disorder will be published in March 2025.

His first novel was published in 1966 and his second (“In Two Minds”) in 2017.  In the 60s, he wrote for The Mavis Bramston Show and OZ Magazine, was an ABC Science broadcaster in Sydney and London, and a book reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald and for The Australian. In 2004 he had a play (“Personality Games”) produced by La Mama in Melbourne.

About our 2024 Research Grant Recipients

Come along and celebrate our 2024 Research Grant Recipients:

Dr Joel Poder who will be awarded $49,500 for research examining same day MRI – only simulation and treatment of stereotactic radiotherapy. This research grant is funded by Southern Cancer Care.

Dr Xiaotao Jiang will be awarded $59,994 for his project on characterising the gut microbiome and its metabolites that impact dementia through mediating host plasma proteomics. This project is the inaugural recipient of the Giuseppe Ferlaino Research Grant.

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