Join us at 12:30pm on Wednesday 13 October 2021 via Webex for: Mental Health Week – Excellence in Clinical Practise

Medical Grand Round – Mental Health Week

Medical Grand Rounds are created for medical staff but are open to all Monash Health employees.

Topic

Myth Busting & Destigmatising – how to build a community of support for Mental Health

We are currently in the most challenging times of our lives, and it has never been more apparent to all of us that, to provide the best care for our patients, we all need to prioritise care for ourselves too.

Please join us to discuss how we all need to shift our behaviour, to help make our workplace safer and more supportive for people experiencing difficulties with their Mental health. Listen to Dean’s lived in experience and learn why it is important to break down the stigma often associated with mental health and hear how we can take some simple steps towards self-care from Vinay.

Guest speakers

Associate Professor Prof Vinay Lakra – President – Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)

Associate Professor Vinay Lakra is the President of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP). He is the Clinical Director of the Northern Area Mental Health Service of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. He is also a member of Victorian Board of the Medical Board of Australia. Besides clinical psychiatry, his expertise includes leadership and management, clinical governance systems; and patient safety and quality. He remains actively engaged in supervision and mentoring of junior doctors and psychiatrists.

In a previous role as the Deputy Chief Psychiatrist of Victoria, he worked to strengthen the safety and quality of service delivery in public mental health services across Victoria. In past, he has been a surveyor with ACHS.

Associate Professor Lakra completed his medical and psychiatry training in India and moved to Australia in 2004. He is a Fellow of Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, has a Masters of Health Management from University of New South Wales and is a Graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Dean Yates – Former Head of mental health and wellbeing strategy for Reuters

Dean Yates was head of mental health and wellbeing strategy for Reuters, the international news organisation, until January 2020. During his three years in the role, Dean focused on raising awareness and reducing stigma at the world’s largest news provider. He trained managers on how to look after the mental health of their teams. Before that, Dean was a journalist, bureau chief and senior editor at Reuters for 23 years, covering the Bali bombings in 2002 and the Boxing Day tsunami in Indonesia’s Aceh province in 2004. He was Reuters’ bureau chief in Iraq from 2007-2008. Three staff were killed on his watch, including two by a U.S. Apache helicopter in Baghdad on July 12, 2007.

Dean was diagnosed with PTSD in early 2016. He has been admitted three times to the Ward 17 psychiatric unit at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital in Melbourne for treatment of his PTSD and moral injury.

Dean is writing a memoir called The Road Out Of Ward 17. He expects to finish the book by the end of this year. He lives with his family in the village of Evandale, Tasmania.

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• Event link: https://monashhealth.webex.com/monashhealth/onstage/g.php?MTID=ef4cbb16f40d127aed6182f319f5eeb79
• Meeting ID: 2652 803 7089
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Catch up on past Medical Grand Rounds events

Previous Medical Grand Rounds events can be accessed by clicking on the links below:

• Coronavirus website – under Education/Past events
• LATTE – Please note: You need to be logged into Latte – search ‘Medical Grand Rounds’ under course catalogue. (If you have any problems with sound, try another device).