Professor Jon Jureidini

Professor Jon Jureidini
 Position Research Leader - Robinson Research Institute
 Org Unit Women's and Children's Health
 Email jon.jureidini@adelaide.edu.au
 Mobile 0 0418897530
 Location Floor/Room 2 ,  WCH - Norwich Centre ,   Womens & Childrens Hospital
  • Biography/ Background

    Jon Jureidini is a child psychiatrist at the Women's and Children's Hospital, ÐÂÀË²ÊÆ± where he works with ill and disabled children and their families. He has also trained in philosophy (PhD, Flinders University), critical appraisal (University of British Columbia) and psychotherapy (Tavistock Clinic). He heads the University of ÐÂÀË²ÊÆ±'s: 

    • Critical and Ethical Mental Health (CEMH) research group within the Robinson Research Institute, carrying out critical appraisal, meta-research, teaching, and advocacy in order to promote safer, more effective and more ethical research and practice in mental health
    • Paediatric Mental Health Training Unit (PMHTU, adelaide.edu.au/pmhtu), providing training and support to GPs, allied health professionals, teachers and counsellors in non-pathologising approaches to primary care mental health.

    Jureidini learnt most of what he knows about psychiatry growing up in a pub, from being a father, from reading novels, and from Michael Leunig's cartoons.

  • Qualifications

    PhD, MB BS, FRANZCP

  • Awards & Achievements

    • 1986 South Australian Health Commission Scholarship for Specialist Study Overseas
    • 1999 Robert J Stoller Foundation Prize for a post-doctoral author
    • 2006 Margaret Tobin Award for ‘excellence in the provision of services to people with a mental illness who are most in need or most at risk'

  • Teaching Interests

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  • Research Funding

    1. ARC Linkage Grant: 2015-2017
      Della P, Walsh J, Jureidini J, Driving health care efficiencies and patient care outcomes by improving communication in acute to primary transitions of care, $480,000
       
    2. Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation Grant: 2013-2014
      Roberts R, Strohm K, Jureidini J, Giallo R, Robb J. Evaluation of a group program for siblings. $70,000
       
    3. ARC Linkage grant (LP110100035): 2011-2014
      Slade D, Manias E, Battersby M, Scheeres H, Della P, Jureidini J et al. Effective clinical handover communication: improving patient safety, experiences and outcomes. $718,000 
       
    4. Canadian Women's Health Network: 2008-2009
      Mintzes B, Jureidini J.SSRI use in pregnancy. $CA12,000
       
    5. ARC Large Grant (A726): 2000-2003
      Jureidini J. Narrative and Psychopathology: the role played by narrative in understanding patterns of development and breakdown in psycho-social functioning. $80,000

     

  • Publications

    1. Jureidini J & Dunbar M. (Book chapter, in press) Medical malpractice: Child and adolescent psychiatry. In Encyclopaedia of forensic and legal medicine. Second edition. Eds J Payne-James, R Byard. Oxford: Elsevier
    2. Jureidini J. Let children cry. Med J Aust. 2014 Nov 17;201(10):612-3.
    3. Jureidini JN, Nardo JM. Inadequacy of remote desktop interface for independent reanalysis of data from drug trials. BMJ. (letter) 2014 Jul 9;349:g4353. doi: 10.1136/bmj.g4353
    4. Tufanaru C, Jureidini J Antidepressant Medication and Spontaneous Abortion "No Significant Association"? Clinically Significant Association! JAMA Psychiatry. (letter) 2013,70(12):1373-1374.
    5. Jureidini J, Tonkin A, Jureidini E. Combination Pharmacotherapy for Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Prevalence, Efficacy, Risks and Research Needs. Pediatric Drugs 2013,15:377-391
    6. Lee HE, Jureidini J. Emerging psychosis in adolescents--a practical guide. Aust Fam Physician. 2013, Sep;42(9):624-7
    7. Jureidini J. Psychodynamic minimalism Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2013, 47: 678
    8. Raven M, Jureidini J, Stuart G. Transparency and accountability in early psychosis intervention research. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2013, 47: 680-68
    9. Spielmans G, Jureidini J, Healy D; Purssey R. (letter) Inappropriate Data and Measures Lead to Questionable Conclusions JAMA Psychiatry. 2013,70(1):121
    10. McHenry L, Jureidini J. On the Proposed Changes to the Credibility Gap in Industry-Supported Biomedical Research: A Critical Evaluation Ethical Human Psychiatry and Psychology 2012,14: 156-161
    11. Jureidini J, Raven M. Healthy Kids Check: Lack of transparency and misplaced faith in the benefits of screening. Australian & New Zealand Journa