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ProfessorMichael Berk

Deakin Distinguished Professor and Director, IMPACT

Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation

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  • Deakin Distinguished Professor and Director, IMPACT
    Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation
  • HERB, Health, Education and Research Building (HERB), Level 1, 285 Ryrie Street, Geelong

BIO

Professor Michael Berk is currently a NHMRC L3 research Fellow and is Alfred Deakin Chair of Psychiatry at Deakin University and Barwon Health, where he heads the Institute for Innovation in Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT). He also is an Honorary Professorial Research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, the Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health and Orygen Youth Health at Melbourne University, as well as in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. He has published over 1650 papers and is listed by Thompson Reuters ISI as highly cited (2015-2025). His major interests are in the discovery and implementation of novel therapies.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Deakin Distinguished Professor and Director, IMPACT
    Deakin University, School of Medicine

DEGREES

  • Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery
    University of Witwatersrand

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Clinical sciences
  • Neurosciences
  • Biological psychology
  • Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences
  • Health services and systems
  • Mental health services

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Health

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Medicine

SPECIALIST RESEARCH GROUP

  • Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation