Michael J. Lambert, PhD

Michael J. Lambert, PhD is a Professor and holds an Endowed Chair in Psychology at Brigham Young University, teaching in the Clinical Psychology Program. He has been in private practice as a psychotherapist throughout his career. His research spans 30 years and has emphasized psychotherapy outcome, process, and the measurement of change. He has given over 200 presentations across the world, many of them invited addresses. In 2004, he edited the Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change, the most authoritative summary of the effects of psychological treatments. His current program of research focuses on reducing treatment failure and non response through feedback to providers.

Dr. Harvey Whiteford

Dr Whiteford is the Kratzmann Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health at the University of Queensland, Director of the Policy and Economics Group at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research and Principal Mental Health Adviser to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. His expertise and research interests are in mental health policy, financing and service delivery.

Dr Whiteford trained in medicine, psychiatry and health policy in Queensland and at Stanford University. He has held senior clinical and administrative positions, including those of Director of Mental Health in the Queensland and Federal governments in Australia. He was the first mental health specialist at the World Bank in Washington DC from where he worked on the design and funding of regional and country level mental health policy and programs in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. He has been a visiting Professor at Harvard University and the Institute of Psychiatry in London.

Sarah Gordon BSc (Psyc.), LLB, MBHL

Sarah Gordon is the co-founder and current sole director of CASE Consulting. Established in 2000, Case is a consumer directed and working company that provides services for the development of an improved mental health sector and societal perceptions of mental health from a consumer focused perspective.

Sarah identifies as a person with experience of mental illness. This experience shaped her university study with the areas of medical law and bioethics being the focus. Combining this theoretical education and personal experience, Sarah entered the workforce as a consumer advisor to mental health services in 1988.

Sarah is currently lead researcher of Taku Reo Taku Mauri Ora My Voice My Life, the three year project to develop a self-assessed consumer outcome measure for Aotearoa/New Zealand. The measure will be used by mental health consumers/tangata whai ora to reflect and communicate on their own mental health outcomes and to inform ongoing mental health service development.

Alastair Macdonald M.D., F.R.C.Psych.

Alastair has worked in the NHS and UK Medical Schools from 1972 and for 12 years was a Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry in South London . Previously Clinical Director of a controversial, multidisciplinary open-access service, he was also active in the management of the first NHS Trust. He has led the implementation of routine outcomes measurement in older adults services in SE London from 1997, and has since become responsible for rollout across all psychiatric and psychological treatment services in SL&M NHS Foundation Trust. He is Visiting Professor of Psychiatry, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, London.