The ALIGNED study team comprises Chief Study Investigators, the Study Steering Committee, the Central Coordinating Centre and Study Sites:
Chief Study Investigators

Associate Professor Kathy Wu
Clinical Genomics, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney; School of Medicine, UNSW Sydney; Discipline of Genetic Medicine, University of Sydney; School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame Australia

Professor Paul Fitzgerald
Head of School of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT

Professor Anthony Rodgers
The George Institute for Global Health; Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney; Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London; Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
Study Steering Committee

Sam Brhaspati Stott
Mental Health Consumer Advocate - Past Member 10 Dec 2020 - 28 Jun 2024

Professor Anthony Harris
The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney

Professor Sean Hood
UWA Medical School, The University of Western Australia & Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, North Metropolitan Health Service, Health Department of Western Australia

Professor Colleen Loo
School of Psychiatry, UNSW Medicine; Black Dog Institute; The George Institute for Global Health

Dr Mike Millard
Clinical Director; Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney/UNSW Sydney

Professor Deborah Schofield
Centre for Economic Impacts of Genomic Medicine, Macquarie University

Dr Rupendra Shrestha
Centre for Economic Impacts of Genomic Medicine and Macquarie University Business School, Macquarie University

Professor Tim Usherwood
Speciality of General Practice, University of Sydney

Dr Fatemeh Vafaee
School of Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences and Data Science Hub, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)

Dr Jacquie Garton-Smith
Royal Perth Hospital Liaison GP & Clinical Lead for Primary Care Integration, Health Networks, Department of Health Western Australia

Cody Roth
Mental Health Consumer Advocate

Hayley Purdon
Mental Health Consumer Advocate - Past Member 18 Oct 2022 - 17 July 2024

Assoc. Prof Gian Luca Di Tanna
Head (Australia), Biostatistics, Biostatistics and Data Science Division, The George Institute for Global Health; UNSW Sydney

Santi Ledesma
Mental Health Consumer Advocate - Past Member 26 Oct 2022 - 18 Jan 2023
Professor Stuart Grieve
Parker Hughes Chair of Radiology, Sydney Medical School, Head, Imaging and Phenotyping Laboratory, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney; Group Leader in Cardiac Imaging at the Heart Research Institute (HRI)
Samuel Hockey
Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
Dr Zhixin Liu
Stats Central, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, University of New South Wales
Hon Keith Wilson
Meeting for Minds
Central Coordinating Centre (The George Institute for Global Health)

Niru Wijesuriya
Senior Project Manager

Sarah Stanton
Senior Clinical Research Associate

Ewelina Czajkowska
Clinical Research Associate

Emelia Cox
Clinical Trials Assistant
Study Site Team Members

Rosalind Moxham
Central Assessor
St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney

Gemma Lamp
Study Coordinator
Australian National University

Susanne Stanley
Study Coordinator
The University of Western Australia

Min Lou
Study Coordinator
The Westmead Institute for Medical Research
Study Site Team Members

Philip Edwards
Study Coordinator
The Westmead Institute for Medical Research

Amber Clifford
Study Coordinator
The University of Western Australia

Sue Kang
Clinical Research Assistant
St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
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