Professor Ian Bernard Hickie

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Biographical details

In October 2006, the Australian Financial Review included Professor Hickie in its list of the top 10 cultural influences. The specific comments noted his role as a "long-term campaigner", "the person who orchestrated the campaign" that led to the COAG announcements ($4 billion dollars over five years. In October 2000 he was appointed as the inaugural CEO of beyondblue: the national depression initiative and from 2003-06 served as its Clinical Advisor. In 2003, he was appointed as the inaugural executive director of the flagship Brain and Mind Research Institute at the University of Sydney. In 2006, Professor Hickie received the Australian Honours Award of Member (AM) in the General Division; for services to medicine in the development of key national mental health initiatives and general practice services in both the public and non-government sectors. In 2007, he was appointed to the Prime Minister's Australian National Council on Drugs and has led the BMRI as a founding member of the new National Youth Mental Health Foundation ('headspace'). In 2007, Professor Hickie was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. From 2008-13, Professor Hickie is one of the first round of new NHMRC 2008 Australian Fellows; recognising excellence in Australian Medical Research. His research, clinical and health services development work focuses on expansion of population-based mental health research and development of international mental health strategies. In July 2008 he was appointed to the Federal Health Minister's new National Advisory Council on Mental Health.

Current national competitive grants*

2009

SR: A RCT of a web-based ontervention to improve depresssion, cognitve function and adherence in people with CVD
Hickie I, Glozier N, Naismith S, Neal B
National Heart Foundation of Australia Cardiovascular Disease and Depression Strategic Research Program ($594,198 over 3 years)

Emerging Mental Disorders in Young People
McGorry P, Investigator U, Hickie I, Pantelis C, Yung A
NHMRC Program Grant ($1,000,000 over 5 years)

2008

NHMRC Australia Fellowship
Hickie I
NHMRC Research Fellowships ($2,000,000 over 5 years)

Understanding and preventing mental health difficulties in young Australian men using the Internet
Hickie I, Burns J, Ellis L
ARC Linkage Projects ($357,860 over 3 years)

2005

Emerging Severe Mental Illness In Young People: Clinical Staging, Neurobiology, Prediction And Intervention From Vulnerability To Recovery
McGorry P, Pantelis C, Hickie I, Jackson H, Yung A
NHMRC Project Grant. Shared Research Support ($7,675,659 over 5 years)

Preventive and early intervention strategies in emerging mental disorders in young people
McGorry P, Hickie I, Jackson H, Yung A, Allen N, Edwards J, Chanen A, Lubman D, Berger G, Gleeson J, Berk M, Brewer W
NHMRC CCRE. Shared Research Support ($2,000,000 over 5 years)

* Grants administered through the University of Sydney