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Rees TapsellConsultant Psychiatrist and Clinical DirectorRees is involved in the teaching and training of house officers, registrars and psychiatrists in areas such as Māori mental health, leadership and management, Forensic Psychiatry (including clinical risk assessment and management, psychiatric court report writing and expert testimony, fitness to stand trial, Insanity and other psychiatric defences. Rees has also published in the areas of; Māori mental health, the Forensic Psychiatric rehabilitation of Māori, the epidemiology of mental disorder in New Zealand, The interface between psychiatry and the Courts and specific psychiatric defences, the provision of psychiatric treatment to prisoners. |
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Graham MellsopProfessor of PsychiatryIn recent years the major research areas of Graham Mellsop, Professor of Psychiatry, centred around Diagnostic and Classificatory Issues, Culture and Mental Health Delivery, and Issues with Outcome Measurement. Most of Graham’s research activities involve working with DHB Clinicians who sometimes wish to join in bigger projects, or whom he supports in doing their own stand alone projects. Several of the projects have required and utilised his international contacts so there is an international perspective on those projects. In the past three years he has contributed to the supervision of three people completing Doctorates (two MD’s and one PhD). Graham has worked with a number of Maori clinicians, providing them with research mentorship as they have developed and conducted their own projects. Almost all of the projects referred to in the above have resulted in publications in the international, Peer Reviewed Literature. There is a pin-board on the ground floor of the BEC which always displays the last two years of publications from the Waikato Clinical School psychiatrists. |
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David MenkesDavid is an academic psychiatrist with a background in psychology and pharmacology (PhD 1983, Yale), and a continuing interest in the optimal use and toxicology of drug treatments in psychiatry. David is working on a programme to monitor and manage the metabolic consequences of antipsychotic treatment. David is also involved in studies of doctors’ and nurses’ interaction with the pharmaceutical industry, and attempting to develop workable policies to ensure such interactions serve the interests of patients and evidence-based healthcare. Toxicology of drug treatments in psychiatry
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