Professor Philip Bowden Mitchell

Professor Philip Bowden Mitchell

Honorary Treasurer

Philip is Scientia Professor in the School of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales, Australian NHMRC Leadership Fellow and director of the Bipolar Disorders Clinic and the Black Dog Institute.

He sits on the board of the Anika Foundation for Adolescent Depression and Suicide, is the chair of Bipolar Australia and director of the Mood Disorders Service, Northside Group St Leonards Clinic.

His research and interests are bipolar disorder and depression, with particular focus on predictors in at-risk individuals, the molecular genetics of the disorder; pharmacological and psychological treatments, clinical phenomenology and neurostimulation therapies.

Professor Mitchell has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers, books or book chapters and serves on a number of editorial boards.

In 2010, Philip was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia for service to medical education and has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.