Our people

Jennifer Chrzanowski

BSc (Hons)

Research Assistant

Jennifer joined ACPMH in 2010 and holds an honours degree in psychophysiology. She is involved in a number of research projects at ACPMH. Jennifer is based primarily at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where she recruits and interviews patients admitted with a traumatic injury.

Jackie Clements

BBSc (Psych) GradDipAppChPsych

Research Assistant

Jackie joined ACMPH in 2009. Her experience includes research on mental health and substance abuse in adolescents, and persistent pain after traumatic injury. She is currently involved in the Telephone Administered Early Psychological Intervention Study. Jackie is based primarily at the Alfred Hospital, where she recruits and assesses patients admitted with a traumatic injury.

Dr Lisa Dell

BAppSci (Hons) PhD

Research Fellow (on leave)

Lisa joined ACPMH in 2009, having previously worked as Director of Training with the Canadian Air Force managing a range of projects including the development of a comprehensive e-learning training program. She has a PhD in stress management and emotional intelligence. Lisa co-leads two major ACPMH projects: a three-year strategic evaluation of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs Mental Health Initiatives, and a two-year study into Barriers to Rehabilitation for veterans. She is also the program manager of the Australian Defence Force’s Case Management Training.

Susie Fletcher

BAppSci (Psych) PGDipPsych

Research Assistant

Susie joined ACPMH in 2008. Her research experience includes conducting systematic literature reviews, data analysis and writing research papers. She is currently involved in a number of research projects at ACPMH. Susie is based primarily at the Alfred Hospital, where she recruits and assesses patients admitted with a traumatic injury. She is also involved in data analysis and writing manuscripts for publication.

Jaiganesh Govinda Swamy

BCom

Administration Assistant

Jaiganesh joined ACPMH in 2009, having worked with a number of accounting professionals for many years. He has previously worked in another area of the University of Melbourne’s Department of Psychiatry as Accounts Officer. Jaiganesh is responsible for managing ACPMH’s day-to-day accounts and other administration related work.

Alexandra Howard

BPsych (Hons) MPsych (Clin)

Research Fellow

Alexandra joined ACPMH in 2010, having worked previously as a clinical psychologist in the private, public and university sectors. In these roles she specialised in anxiety and youth mental health, and developed and facilitated group therapy programs. She also has experience in project management of clinical research trials and community health service program evaluation. She completed her Masters of Psychology (Clinical) from the University of NSW. Alexandra is currently working for ACPMH on a research project providing psychological therapy to people who have experienced posttraumatic stress, depression and anxiety following trauma.

Maria Humphries

Communications and Project Coordinator

Maria joined ACPMH in 2009. She has considerable experience in administration of post-graduate training within the University of Melbourne’s Department of Psychiatry, and in project administration. Maria is responsible for managing ACPMH’s publications and other communications. Maria is also project manager for a number of training projects, including the nation-wide Trauma-focussed training workshops.

Dzenana Kartal

BSocSc PGDip (Psych)

Research Assistant

Dzenana joined ACPMH in 2011 as a Research Assistant under the NHMRC Program Grant. She has worked in the public and university sectors since 2004. Her research experience includes working with victims of crime, refugees, culturally and linguistically diverse communities and preschoolers. She is completing her PhD examining psycho-social factors impacting the mental health of refugees.

Winnie Lau

BBSC (Hons)

Research Fellow

Winnie has worked as a psychologist across academic and clinical settings. Having worked in the public child and adolescent mental health sector, she joined ACPMH to work as a clinician and project manager. Winnie has been involved in projects examining the impact of trauma on injury survivors; the development of a treatment manual for use in the aftermath of the Victorian bushfires; and an early intervention trial for survivors of traumatic injury. She has broad interests in trauma-focussed cognitive behavioural therapies, child and adolescent mental health, and refugee trauma. In 2011 Winnie will submit her PhD, which looks at the psychological wellbeing of young refugees who have experienced trauma. 

Delyth Lloyd

BA MA (Exp Psy) PCert Clinical Research Management

Research Fellow

Delyth has worked full time in research since graduating in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford in 2001. Del joined ACPMH in 2004. She has conducted research and evaluation across a range of projects including indigenous communities, brain injury, PTSD treatment and training implementation initiatives. Her current projects at ACPMH include the CPT Trial – first Australian community trial of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and evaluation of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs Training for Mental Health Practitioners Initiative. She is currently undertaking an MPH at the University of Melbourne.

Emma Lockwood

BSc GDipPsych PGDipPsych

Research Assistant

Emma joined ACPMH in 2010 to assist with research into the phenomenology of PTSD and its relationship with other disorders. Emma won the 2010 ASTSS Research Prize for her investigation of the latent structure and invariance of PTSD symptoms in veteran samples, and is currently undertaking an MPsych (Clinical) / PhD at the University of Melbourne.

Pauline Middelveld

BBus

Administrative Assistant

Pauline joined ACPMH in 2010 after returning to the University of Melbourne from maternity leave.  She is an experienced office administrator, having worked in a variety of organisations and departments over the last sixteen years. Pauline began her career with the  University in the Department of Pathology in 2006 and then spent three years with  Academic Enrichment Services. At ACPMH, Pauline is responsible for managing the publications database, the reporting requirements for publications, grants etc, and assisting in the office on reception and  with general office duties.

Thi Pham

BA BSc (Hons)

Research Assistant

The holder of an honours degree in psychology, Thi joined ACPMH in 2011 as a Research Assistant and has worked on a number of research projects, predominantly under the NHMRC Program Grant. Previously she has been involved in data management and provision of administrative support for two projects in the Department of General Practice at the University of Melbourne.

Daniel Redman

Information Technology Officer

Dan joined ACPMH in 2011 and has more than 10 years' experience in all areas of information technology support and management. He is currently completing a Bachelor of Technology (Information Systems) at Swinburne University to further bolster his skills. At ACPMH, he is responsible for managing the IT network and systems and providing IT support to the whole team.

Suzie Sadikovic

Executive Assistant to David Forbes and Sue Scheinpflug

Suzie joined ACPMH in 2010, has 16 years' experience in all facets of office administration, and is currently studying a BA (Psych) at Deakin University. At ACPMH, she is responsible for providing executive assistance to the Director (Professor David Forbes) and CEO (Sue Scheinpflug). Suzie also manages human resources administration and provides administrative assistance to the Board of Management, the Finance Committee and Management Group.

Rebecca Sheehan

Receptionist

Rebecca began working as ACPMH’s receptionist in 2011. She has six years' experience in reception and administration, mainly in the real estate sector.  Rebecca’s role is to provide general assistance, administrative support and respond to telephone and email enquiries.

Naomi Stevens

BA (Hons)

Research Assistant

Naomi joined ACPMH in 2011 as a Research Assistant. She has experience conducting alcohol and drug assessments and writing psychological/forensic reports for both government and private organisations. Naomi has a first class honours degree from the Australian National University.

Serena Thorpe

BA (Psych) GCertDevStudies PGDipPsych MPsych (Clin)

Clinical Fellow

Serena is a practising psychologist who joined ACPMH in 2011. She has previously worked in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre, and with a Job Services Australia provider, where she assisted people with psychological issues return to work or maintain employment. Serena manages, and contributes to a range of projects across all areas of ACPMH, including service and policy improvement advice and training and education. 

Dr Tracey Varker

BSc (Hons) PGDip (Statistics) PhD

Tracey joined ACPMH in 2007 and recently completed a PhD in the prevention of trauma reactions in police officers. Her current research interests include the prevention of trauma reactions, early interventions for trauma reactions, and high-risk populations such as the emergency services. In her role as a Research Fellow, Tracey has managed and contributed to several projects across the training and education, policy and service development, and research domains. Tracey has a number of publications, and continues to be involved in data analysis and writing manuscripts for publication.

Dr Bronwyn Wolfgang

BA Dipl-Psych PhD

Research Fellow

Bronwyn joined ACPMH in 2007. She has a PhD in the role of emotion regulation in recovery from trauma. She has broad interests including emotion regulation, knowledge transfer, and the promotion of mental health and wellbeing in the community. In her role as a research fellow, Bronwyn manages and contributes to a range of policy, service development and knowledge dissemination initiatives. She has also contributed to and managed a variety of research projects at ACPMH. Bronwyn is the project manager for the revision of the Australian Guidelines for ASD and PTSD in Adults and Children.