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Professional Affiliations:
Fellow of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Member of Australian Society for Psychiatric Research
Member of Australian Society for Biological Psychiatry
Teaching:
Member of Second Year Curriculum Committee
Coordinator 6th year psychiatry at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Teach in second, fourth and sixth year programmes
Director of Training NWAMHS
Member of South Australian Psychiatry Training Committee
Member of Curriculum Committee SAPTC
Member of Supervision Committee SAPTC
Supervision of Masters and PhD students
Supervision of Masters and PhD students in the areas of depression and its impact on cardiac disease
Research:
Investigations into the effect of intervention on outcome in depression occurring in association with cardiovascular disease.
Currently involved in the NHMRC funded 'Take Heart' project which is a cluster randomized controlled trial of a general practitioner focused intervention aimed at reducing depression in patients with heart failure and angina
Key Publications:
Schrader GD, Cheok F, Hordacre AL, Marker J, 2006. predictors of depression 12 months after cardiac hospitalization: Tthe Identifying Depression as a Comorbid Condition Study, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 40: 1025-1030.
Schrader et al, 2005. Effect of psychiatry liaison with general practitioners on depression severity in recently hospitalized cardiac patients: a randomized controlled trial. Medical Journal of Australia, 182: 272-276 .
Schrader et al, 2004. Predictors of depression three months after cardiac hospitalization. Psychosomatic Medicine, 66:514-520.
Cheok F, Schrader G, Banham D, Marker J, 2003. Identification, course and treatment of depression after admission for a cardiac condition: Rationale and patient characteristics for the Identifying Depression As a Comorbid Condition (IDACC) Project. American Heart Journal, 146:978-984.
Schrader GD, Dhillon R, Bastiampllai T, Al Atrash Najar R,2002. Monitoring of mood stabilizing drugs for bipolar disorder in Australian general practice. Australasian Psychiatry, 10, 265-267.
Schrader GD, Dhillon R, Bastiampllai T, Al Atrash Najar R, 2002. Low rates of monitoring mood stabilizing drugs for bipolar disorder in community psychiatric clinics. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 36, 819.
National Collaborations:
Collaborating with Department of General Practice, University of Queensland and the Baker Heart Institute, Melbourne, on the NHMRC funded 'Take Heart' Project.
Collaborating with the Health Outcomes Unit of the Department of Human Services SA on IDACC, a multicentre trial investigating the effect of a general practitioner based intervention in depression in people with recent myocardial infarction.
Visit IDACC website for further information at http://idacc.healthbase.info
Contact Details:
Discipline of Psychiatry, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville SA
5011.
Telephone: +61 8 8222 6909
Facsimile: +61 8 8222 6025
Email: geoffrey.schrader@adelaide.edu.au |
