Featured Speakers

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  A/Professor Luca Cocchi

  Luca obtained his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Lausanne and Geneva (Switzerland) in 2007. Following postdoctoral training at the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre (University of Melbourne) and the Queensland Brain Institute (University of Queensland), Luca joined QIMR Berghofer in 2016 and started the Clinical Brain Networks group in 2018. Luca’s research focuses on understanding how functionally specialised brain regions communicate, how that communication breaks down in mental illness, and how neuromodulation therapy to restore that communication can be made more predictable, efficient and effective. Advances from this research program have resulted in the establishment of a pioneering not-for-profit clinical centre offering neuroimaging-guided and robotically delivered brain stimulation (Queensland Neurostimulation Centre)

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  Professor Colleen Loo

  Colleen Loo is a psychiatrist, NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of NSW and the Black Dog Institute, Sydney; Australia. She is an internationally recognised clinical expert and researcher in the fields of ECT, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and ketamine, and led the first Australian RCTs of these interventions in depression.  She has published over 300 peer reviewed papers and has received competitive grant funding from major Australian and overseas grant funding agencies. Prof Loo is active in ECT, Neurostimulation and novel treatments research, practice and policy, providing advice to state chief psychiatrists, health departments, the RANZCP, as well as international guidelines. She was President of the International Society for ECT and Neurostimulation (ISEN) 2018-2020. She has established training courses for psychiatrists in ECT, TMS, tDCS and ketamine.