Professor Cherrie Galletly

Qualifications

2003   Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Flinders University, South Australia
1984   Fellow, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
1981   Member, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
1980   Diploma in Psychological Medicine (DPM), University of Otago, New  Zealand
1975   Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBChB), University of Otago, New Zealand

Teaching Interests

Course Coordinator MBBS Year 6 Psychiatry
Board of Examiners Sixth year MBBS
RANZCP Postgraduate Psychiatry training program - schizophrenia, academic psychiatry
Supervision of Honours, Masters and PhD students

 

 

Research Interests

Background in neurosciences and clinical psychiatric research. Research interests include cognitive dysfunction in psychiatric illness, first episode psychosis, schizophrenia, PTSD and medical education.

Chief Investigator with Professor A McFarlane, A/Professor Michael Sawyer and A/Professor Peter Baghurst (University of Adelaide, A/Professor Malcolm Sim (Monash University) on NHMRC funded study - Childhood cognitive antecedents of adult psychopathology: follow up of the Port Pirie lead cohort into adulthood.

National Survey of High Impact Psychosis (SHIP): Member of the SHIP Technical Advisory Group and Project Implementation Steering Group, Site Director for Northern Mental Health SHIP site.

Publications

Key Publications:

Galletly, C.A. (2009). Recent advances in treating cognitive impairment in schizophrenia. Psychopharmacology, 202, 259-73.

Clark, R., Galletly, C.A., Ash, D., Moores, K., Penrose, R. & McFarlane, A. (2009). Evidence based medicine evaluation of electrophysiological studies of the Anxiety Disorders. Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, 40, 84-112

Galletly, C.A. (2008). Working Memory in Schizophrenia. In Johansen N. (Ed), New Research on Short Term Memory. Hauppauge New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Flynn, G., Alexander, D., Harris, A., Whitford, T., Wong, W., Galletly, C.A., Silverstein, S.,Gordon, E., & Williams, L.M. (2008). Increased absolute magnitude of gamma synchrony in first-episode psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 105, 262-71.

 

Galletly, C.A., McFarlane, A., & Clark, R. (2008). Differentiating cortical patterns of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia and posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychiatry Research. 159, 196-206.

 

Williams, L.M., Whitford, T.J., Flynn, G., Wong, W., Liddell, B.J., Silverstein, S., Galletly, C.A., Harris, A.W.F, & Gordon, E. (2008). General and social cognition in first episode schizophrenia: Identification of separable factors and prediction of functional outcome using the IntegNeuro test battery.  Schizophrenia Research, 99, 182-91.

 

Professional Associations

Consultant Psychiatrist, Lyell McEwin Health Service, Northern Mental health, CNAHS
Ethics Committee, Schizophrenia International Research Society
Executive Committee, Australasian Society of Psychiatric Research 
RANZCP Committee for Research
Steering Committee, South Australian Neurosciences Institute
Medical Advisory Committee Ramsay Health Care - Mental Health SA
Brain Research & Integrative Neuroscience Network (BRAINnet) 
Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologium
Australian Medical Association
 

Expertise for Media Contact

Categories	Medicine and medical research, Psychology and psychiatry
Expertise	Memory; Working memory (and its effects on schizophrenia); schizophrenia among young people; schizophrenia; youth; academic psychiatry; PTSD; professional boundaries; obesity; medicolegal
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Entry last updated: Sunday, 5 Feb 2012