Meet the Experts Speakers – 15th International Conference on Early Intervention and Prevention in Mental Health

Christoph Correll Charité - Universitätsmedizin KJP, Berlin, Germany

Christoph Correll

About Christoph:

Christoph U. Correll is Professor of Psychiatry at The Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, New York, USA, and also Professor and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany. He completed his medical studies at the Free University of Berlin in Germany, and Dundee University Medical School in Scotland. He is board certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry, having completed both residencies at The Zucker Hillside Hospital in New York. Since 1997, he has been working and conducting research in New York, USA, and since 2017 he is also working in Germany again.

Professor Correll focuses on the identification and treatment of youth and adults with severe mental illness, clinical trials, epidemiology, psychopharmacology, meta-analyses, and the interface between physical health and mental health.
He has authored or co-authored over 900 journal articles that have been cited more than 79.000 times and received over 40 research awards for his work. In June 2024, his H-index was 143 in Google Scholar.
Since 2014, the beginning of this metric, he has been listed every year by Clarivate/Web of Science as one of the “most influential scientific minds” and “top 1% cited scientists in the area of psychiatry” (https://hcr.clarivate.com).
Additionally, Dr. Correll has been holding numerous Expertscape rankings based on the number of publications and citations in the past 10 years, including being ranked consistently since 2017 as the number one cited world expert in >10 areas, including “central nervous system agents”, “psychotropic drugs“, “schizophrenia”, “schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders”, “antipsychotics”, “delayed action preparations” and “weight gain”.

Jackie Curtis Mindgardens Neuroscience Network, Australia

Jackie Curtis

About Jackie:

Professor Jackie Curtis is a youth psychiatrist and the inaugural Executive Director of the Mindgardens Neuroscience Network and the Clinical Lead of Youth Mental Health at the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia. She is Conjoint Professor in the Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health at University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Her research and clinical work over several decades has focused on early psychosis and youth mental health, including improving the cardiometabolic health of people living with serious mental disorders, with the aim of reducing health inequalities and increasing life expectancy. Jackie developed and implemented the internationally recognised Keeping the Body in Mind program, demonstrating that antipsychotic-induced weight gain can be prevented with lifestyle intervention. Jackie also led the development of the clinician guide: "Positive Cardiometabolic Health resource"-which has been adapted internationally. Along with Dr David Shiers, she is the co-founder and Co-Chair of the iphYs international working group advocating for improved physical health for youth experiencing psychosis which is auspiced by IEPA
Jackie was an invited committee member of the World Health Organisation working group for the international guidelines: management of physical health conditions in adults with severe mental disorders.
In 2023 she was the recipient of the prestigious Margaret Tobin Award from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists for her contributions to public psychiatry.
Jackie is an enthusiastic and long standing member of IEPA.

Ulrich Reininghaus Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

Ulrich Reininghaus

About Ulrich:

Ulrich Reininghaus is Professor and Head at the Department of Public Mental Health, Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH), Mannheim, and a Visiting Professor at the Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. His main research interests are in the ecological translation of evidence-based innovations in public mental health provision using innovative participatory, evaluation, and implementation science frameworks and cutting-edge digital technology for delivering evidence-based mental health promotion, mental disorder prevention and mental health care. To this end, his work seeks to identify momentary risk and protective mechanisms, socio-environmental contexts and settings across the continuum of mental health and, in a next step, translate this into novel digital interventions and services – ecological momentary interventions (EMI) in particular – that target these mechanisms, contexts and settings in real time and in the real world.
Professor Reininghaus was awarded a Ph.D. by Queen Mary University of London in 2011. He trained as a postdoc at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, and the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. His interest in innovative digital assessment and intervention then led him to work at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Maastricht University, where he was last appointed as Associate Professor before he moved to CIMH in 2018 to head the newly established Department of Public Mental Health. Professor Reininghaus has been awarded several competitive fellowships for his work, including by the UK National Institute for Health Research, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and most recently a Heisenberg Professorship by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His current work is funded by several grants, including from the EU, ZonMW, BMBF, BMG, DFG, and MWK.

Jo Robinson Orygen, Australia

Jo Robinson

About Jo:

Jo Robinson AM is a Professor at Orygen, the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, where she leads the suicide prevention research unit.

Prof Robinson’s work focuses on the development, and testing, of novel interventions that specifically target at risk youth across settings, on evidence synthesis, and on the translation of research evidence into practice and policy. Her work has a strong focus on the potential of social media platforms in suicide prevention. This includes the development of the #chatsafe guidelines, the first evidence-based best practice guidelines for safe peer-peer communication about suicide online.

Prof Robinson also has a keen interest in policy development and evaluation and has led the development of two major policy reports and is regularly called upon to provide advice to both state and federal government. She is a member of the Self-injury Advisory Group for Meta and was an advisory board member for the Oprah Winfrey production The Me You Can’t See.
She is Vice President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention.