Prof. Gordon Parker AO is currently Scientia Professor of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and was Executive Director of the Black Dog Institute from 2002-2011. He was, for nearly two decades, Head of the School of Psychiatry at UNSW and Director of the Division of Psychiatry at Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals. He has had a number of responsibilities for the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, including being Editor of the Journal and Chair of the Quality Assurance Committee.

He has been an active researcher and has held a number of positions with legal organisations, including the NSW Guardianship Board and the NSW Administrative Appeals Tribunal. In 2004 he received a Citation Laureate as the Australian Scientist most highly cited in the field of ‘Psychiatry/Psychology’. His autobiography “A Piece of My Mind: A Psychiatrist on the Couch” was published in 2012.

Scientia Professor Gordon was a dual winner of the Australian Mental Health Prize with Professor Helen Milroy.

“As a Board Member for the Quest for Life Foundation I elected to sit in on a Healing Your Life program. All my impressions of QFL and its objectives and program content were exceeded. The staff were warm and empathic, the accommodation and venue first rate, while the food was imaginative and excellent. The daily programs were wonderfully and richly constituted with superb facilitation.