The Centre for Adolescent Health welcomes Dr Rohan Borschmann, a clinical psychologist and senior research officer, who has recently the Children’s campus with an appointment through the MCRI.

Rohan has worked in community mental health settings and universities in Australia, Canada and the UK, in addition to a number of substance misuse rehabilitation agencies and as a clinical psychologist within the Queensland correctional system. After completing his doctoral training in psychology, Rohan spent eight years in London working at St. George’s University of London and the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London. He has a particular interest in self-harm and recently completed his PhD at the IOP on the topic, “The development and testing of joint crisis plans for people with borderline personality disorder: a feasibility study”.

Rohan greatly enjoyed working at the Institute of Psychiatry (the northern hemisphere’s leading psychiatric research institution and a centre for excellence in Europe) where he also had the opportunity to  explore the world. In asking about his return to Melbourne, he said that, “I was born in Melbourne and it has always been my home, so I knew one day I’d return. Working at the MCRI represented an amazing opportunity to move up in my career (as opposed to settling for a sufficient post somewhere or even taking a step backwards just so that I could relocate to Australia). I have enjoyed spending so much time with friends and family, and also learning more about the amazing work done by the Royal Children’s Hospital”.

In joining the Centre for Adolescent Health, he will be working on “2000 stories: The Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort Study”.  As he says about this opportunity, “I am very excited to work on one of the world’s most pre-eminent prospective studies of youth development and mental health – and all this in Melbourne, the “world’s most liveable city!”