Dr Andy Thompson

Dr Andy Thompson is a Consultant Psychiatrist at Orygen Youth Health and an honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He joined Orygen in 2007 from the University of Bristol in the U.K. where he worked on a large birth cohort examining factors associated with psychotic symptoms in young adolescents. He completed his MD on implementing practice change in mental health services and continues this line of research in projects implementing evidence based practice at Orygen Youth Health.
He works clinically at the PACE (Personal Assessment and Crisis Evaluation) clinic, which provides treatment to individuals thought to be at a high risk of developing a psychotic disorder. Within this clinic Dr Thompson’s research interests include risk factors for developing a psychotic illness in this population including the role of social cognition and previous trauma.