Professor Graham Burrows


Professor Graham Burrows
AO, KCSJ, BSc, MB, ChB, DPM, MD, FRANZCP, FRCPsych, MRACMA, Dip.M.Htlh.Sc (Clinical Hypnosis), FAChAM, Professor of Psychiatry

Graham Burrows is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne and Director of the Mental Health Clinical Service Unit at the Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Heidelberg, Victoria.

Professor Burrows serves on many advisory boards to Australia, international, governmental and scientific organisations, including
the World Psychiatric Association and the World Health Organisation.

For the past 32 years he has made a major commitment to Non-Government Organisations and Mental Health education for the community.

He was President of the First and Second World Congress on Stress and Chairman of the International Congress in Melbourne Collegium International Neuropsychopharmacologicum (CINP).

He currently serves as Chairman of the Mental Health Foundation of Australia; President of the Mental Health Foundation (Victorian branch) and President of the Alzheimer's Association of Victoria. From 1981-1985 he served as Regional Vice-President Oceania Regiona and Life Member of the World Federationn of Mental Health.

He has published more than 650 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is the author or editor of more than 95 books, including the Handbook of Anxiety Disorders and the Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry and has contributed chapters to approximately 190 other scientific books. He serves on the editorial boards of 30 international and Australian journals.

Professor Burrows has been honoured with the following awards for distinguished service to medicine - the Order of Australia (OA) in 1989, Knight of The Order of Saint John of Jerusalem (KSJ), Knight Commander of Grace of The Order of Saint John of Jerusalem (KCSJ) in 2001 and the Paul Harris Fellowship, Rotary International in 1997.


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