Professor Mason Durie

(Pre-Conference Workshop)

Title of Key Note Address:
Te Puawaitanga: Indigeneity, Best Outcomes and Maori Experience.

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Māori) and Professor of Māori Research and Development, Massey University, Ngāti Kauwhata, Ngāti Raukawa, Rangitane CNZM, MB, ChB (Otago), DPsych (McGill); DLitt, FRANZCP, FRSNZ. Professor Mason Durie is of Rangitane, Ngāti Kauwhata and Ngāti Raukawa descent. He is a psychiatrist with interest in community psychiatry, Māori health interventions and culturally aligned health measurements.

James Healy

Title of Key Note Address:
Ohio Outcomes: Helping Recovery and Resiliency Grow for Over 11 Years.

James Healy joined OPER (Office of Program Evaluation and Research) in March 2006 as manager of Ohio's Mental Health Consumer Outcomes System. James received his Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati in 1986, and completed graduate studies in applied psychology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1989. Before coming to OPER, James worked as an evaluator at the Stark County and Hamilton County mental health boards. James's primary duties include implementation of Ohio's Mental Health Consumer Outcomes System. His research interests include use of technology in treatment, methodology and consumer directed/self-help treatments. James was an active member of the Outcomes Task Force that established Ohio's Mental Health Consumer Outcomes System in 1996, and has played a leadership role in each of the six subsequent multi-constituency work groups that have guided the outcomes system developed. James's contributions to the outcomes system have been in both technical and policy arenas.

Professor Tom Trauer

Title of Key Note Address:
Routine Outcome Measurement: are we nearly there yet?

Professor Tom Trauer has more than 35 years experience in the mental health field, including public sector, private practice, medico-legal, and research and evaluation. Trained as a clinical psychologist, his initial work was in adult mental health services in Melbourne, followed by nearly 20 years in London where he worked at Guy's Hospital, and later was head of the psychology department at King's College Hospital. On returning to Australia he first worked for several years as head of the psychology department of a large psychiatric hospital, and from the early 1990s he has been mainly occupied in teaching, training, research, evaluation studies, supervision of doctoral students, and a variety of state, national and international consultancies. His areas of recent research include outcomes measurement (especially the HoNOS), quality of life, needs assessment and deinstitutionalisation. In recent years, he has acted as specialist adviser on outcome measurement at both the state and Commonwealth level, as well as leading and co-leading research teams. He is a regular contributor to mental health conferences and has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals in the mental health field. He holds several professorships in Australian universities, and currently works at St. Vincent's Hospital Mental Health Service, Melbourne.

Dr Siale 'Alo Foliaki

Title of Key Note Address:
Measuring Everything But Outcomes - lessons learnt the hard way.

Dr Siale Foliaki is a consultant psychiatrist for the Faleola Service, Auckland. Dr Foliaki is a graduate of Otago Medical School and is only one of two psychiatrists of Pacific descent working in New Zealand. He has been involved in numerous research projects which include being the lead Pacific researcher in Te Rau Hinengaro - The New Zealand Mental Health Survey. His major interest is the integration of secondary mental health and addiction services into primary care and community development models consistent with the principles of the Ottawa Charter.

Associate Professor Papaarangi Reid

Title of Key Note Address:
Māori Health Information and Mental Health

Associate Professor Papaarangi Reid is Tumuaki and Head of Department of Te Kupenga Hauora Māori at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland. She holds science and medical degrees from the University of Auckland and is a specialist in public health medicine. She has tribal affiliations to Te Rarawa in the North and her research interests include analysing disparities between indigenous and non-indigenous citizens as a means of monitoring government commitment to indigenous rights.

Mary O'Hagan

Title of Key Note Address:
Measuring Recovery

Mary O'Hagan was a key initiator of the mental health service user movement in New Zealand in the late 1980s, and was the first chairperson of the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry between 1991 and 1995. She was a Mental Health Commissioner in New Zealand between 2000 and 2007. Mary is now an international consultant in mental health. She has written and spoken extensively on service user and survivor perspectives and has been an international leader in the development of the recovery approach.