Prof Paul Fitzgerald - Researcher Profile

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Address

Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre
Level 4, 607 St. Kilda Rd.

Contact Details

Tel: 61 3 9076 6552

Email: Paul.Fitzgerald@monash.edu


Biography

 

Professor Paul Fitzgerald is Professor of Psychiatry, Deputy Director and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, a joint research centre of Monash University and the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. He is a qualified psychiatrist, has a Masters of Psychological Medicine and research PhD. He runs a substantive research program utilising brain stimulation and neuroimaging techniques including transcranial magnetic stimulation, functional and structural MRI, EEG and near infrared spectroscopy. The program has focussed on the conduct of investigative studies of brain function / dysfunction as well as the conduct of a variety of novel clinical trials in Mood, Anxiety, Psychotic and Developmental Disorders. He has published over 200 papers and received grant funding from the NHMRC, ARC and a number of US based organisations and is a current NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship holder.

 

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