Professional background
Professor Sean Hood MBBS, MSc, FRANZCP undertook his undergraduate medical degree at the University of Western Australia before completing formal post graduate training in Psychiatry in Perth (Australia)and Bristol (United Kingdom) in 2003. Prof Hood chairs a novel research collaboration with the Meeting for Minds (M4M) Foundation which is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to research of the brain and disorders of the brain in partnership with people living with mental illness.
In 2018 CI-Hood was a founding member of the UWA Young Lives Matter (YLM) Foundation (Board Director & Research Management Lead). In 2020 Sean convened and chairs the WA Mental Health Covid-19 Research Panel (WAMH-CoRP)a group unifying all 5 WA universities (viz:UWA, Curtin, Murdoch, Notre Dame Fremantle, Edith Cowen U), public health districts, and consumer/carer bodies. Prof. Hood is a psychiatrist in academic (University of Western Australia), public (SCGH, Nedlands) and private practice (The Marian Centre, Wembley). He is Head of the UWA Division of Psychiatry, and Interim Co-Director of the
WA Centre for Mental Health Research.
Areas of Interest
- Anxiety Disorders
- Mood Disorders
Languages
- English
Telehealth
No
Client groups
- Adults
