60% of adults with severe mental illness smoke 🚬. 'Keep Quitting in Mind' lowered smoking rates & nicotine addiction in an adult mental health service SESLHD
Paper: doi.org/10.1111/jpm.13… Hamish Fibbins Phil Ward Rachel Morell Scott Teasdale Jackie Curtis

📣Our new paper➡️prevent’n of substantial weight & waist gain from initial #KBIM pilot study was replicated as part of routine clinical care for FEP youth SESLHD
⭐️DONT JUST SCREEN, INTERVENE!! Mindgardens Neuroscience Network UNSW Medicine & Health
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Gr8 study Jackie Curtis Evaluating the epidemiology of clozapine-associated neutropenia among people on clozapine across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: a retrospective cohort study - The Lancet Psychiatry thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

I have worked for 32 years across ICAC /Justice /mental health & with Aboriginal people across NSW. I am convinced an advisory VOICE will produce better policy/spending to turn around the worst Aus outcomes in health, housing, education & justice for Aboriginal people. Vote YES

SESLHD is very excited to work with Mindgardens Neuroscience Network, UNSW Medicine & Health and University of Tasmania to develop personalised physical health care for people living with severe mental illness.

Network Executive Director of Mindgardens Neuroscience Network, UNSW Prof. Jackie Curtis has received $3 million in NHMRC funding to lead a world-first research program into personalised physical health care for people living with severe mental illness:
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4 in 5 people in Australia living with mental illness have a co-existing physical illness.

Prof. Curtis will lead a 5-year trial integrating a peer-supported physical health service into mental health care to produce sustained cardiovascular & metabolic health improvements.

Congratulations to UNSW Prof. Jill Newby (@drjillnewby - Black Dog Institute), Prof. Valsamma Eapen and Prof. Virginia Wiseman (@KirbyInstitute) who have been collectively awarded $7.5 million in NHMRC funding to establish three Centres of Research Excellence:
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Exciting news to share from the Mindgardens team & our colleagues. We're launching a groundbreaking 5-year trial to provide personalised physical health care for people with severe mental illness.

Grateful for the opportunity to continue our long-standing work to improve the physical health in people living with mental health conditions - alongside an amazing team #stillkeepingthebodyinmind UNSW Medicine & Health SESLHD NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia) University of Tasmania Mindgardens Neuroscience Network

Jackie Curtis -it’s about time for physical health care for people with mental illness #AUSPC2023 Mindgardens Neuroscience Network

Fabulous presentation from Jackie Curtis and Mindgardens Neuroscience Network on improving physical health in people with mental health conditions #auspc2023

Kimberley Davies UNSW Medicine & Health SESLHD presenting at Psychosis Australia on the statewide NSW Mindgardens Neuroscience Network Tertiary Referral Service for psychosis-initial characteristics and holistic Rx’s. #AUSPC2023

What an incredible plenary session Psychosis Australia #AUSPC2023 on Lived Experience- 3 superb speakers: A/Prof Michelle Banfield, Dr Richard Schweizer & Nev Jones PhD A/Prof Nev Jones➡️ #LivedExperienceResearchers ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research ➡️ building a collective bridge across lived experience

Incredible start to Psychosis Australia #AUSPC2023 Keynote eminent Prof Brian Burdekin, AO on the landmark Human Right & Mental Illness “Burdekin” report: incredible impact on mental health. Highlighted “Gross neglect & omission”“Human rights is a fundamental strategy for advocacy”

Are you at Psychosis Australia #AUSPC2023 in Sydney? Come and check out our Mindgardens Neuroscience Network stand & ask Andrew Watkins and Eliza Draper about Mindgardens.

Exciting to be here at #AUSPC2023 with uncle Michael kicking off with a Welcome. Mindgardens Neuroscience Network proud to be a Bronze partner of the conference.

check out our new paper led by Grant Sara NSW pop'n linkage data ➡️ health inequities in women mental health service users Dx with breast cancer 📢'Health systems need strategies to ensure that women living with MH conditions enjoy population gains in breast cancer outcomes'.

Why thanks Jackie - back atcha!

If you want to hear the amazing Jackie Curtis (and many others!) talk at the Psychosis Australia conference held in Sydney, 11th-13th September, sign up here! 👇

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We are thrilled to announce that Mindgardens Neuroscience Network Executive Director, Jackie Curtis, will be delivering Plenary 11, 'Making Change; Visions of the Future', Professor Michael Berk, at the Psychosis Australia Conference on September 11-13 2023.