Professor Nick Craddock
MA, MB,ChB, MMedSci, PhD, FRCPsych

Professor of Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Department of Psychological Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Wales, UK. (craddockn@cardiff.ac.uk).

Nick Craddock was Professor of Molecular Psychiatry and Head of the University of Birmingham Department of Psychiatry and Division of Neuroscience until 2002 when he moved to his current position as Professor of Psychiatry at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. He originally studied mathematical sciences at Cambridge University followed by Medicine at Birmingham University. He trained in clinical psychiatry in Birmingham and in psychiatric genetics in Cardiff and St Louis. His research focus is the molecular genetic investigation of bipolar spectrum mood disorders and psychosis. He has a specific interest in using molecular genetics to refine the clinical phenotype. Professor Craddock heads the Cardiff University Psychiatry Service and his clinical interests lie in diagnosis and management of bipolar spectrum disorders. He is on the management boards of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics and the International Society for Bipolar Disorders.

Dr Harvey Whiteford

Dr Whiteford is the Kratzmann Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health at the University of Queensland and the Principal Mental Health Advisor to the Australian Government.

Dr Whiteford trained in medicine, psychiatry and health policy in Queensland and at Stanford University  He has held senior clinical and administrative positions, including those of Director of Mental Health in the Queensland and Federal governments in Australia and at the World Bank in Washington DC He has been a visiting Professor at Harvard University and the Institute of Psychiatry in London. His expertise and research interests are in mental health policy, financing and service delivery.

Barbara Hocking, SANE

Since 1995, Barbara has been Executive Director of SANE Australia – the national mental health charity. SANE works for a better life for Australians affected by mental illness, through education, applied research and campaigning for improved services and attitudes

SANE operates Australia's only national Freecall 1800 Helpline service providing information on mental illness, advice and referral, and through which the community's concerns on a range of mental health issues are monitored. Reducing stigma and discrimination is a special focus for SANE which operates the award winning StigmaWatch program from its website at www.sane.org.

Barbara represents the community perspective on a wide range of committees and advisory groups. With special interests in suicide prevention and stigma reduction, currently she is a member of the National Advisory Council on Suicide Prevention and the National Media and Mental Health Group.

Previously SANE's Education Coordinator, Barbara has also worked in Health Promotion and Education in Australia, the United Kingdom and Papua New Guinea.

The Honourable Justice Philip Cummins

JUSTICE P.D. CUMMINS has been a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria for 20 years. Before his judicial appointment he was a Queen's Counsel for 10 years and was Chairman of the Victorian Bar.

Justice Cummins is the Dean's nominee on the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne and taught Legal Ethics there for 20 years. He is currently undertaking a Master of Science in the field of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder under the supervision of Professor Bruce Singh, Deputy Dean and Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at that University. Justice Cummins holds the degree of Master of Laws and other degrees.