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Ed Heffernan
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Professor Ed Heffernan
Ed Heffernan is the Director of the Queensland Forensic Mental Health Service and a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland. He has over twenty-five years’ experience as a psychiatrist working with people in mental health crisis and people suffering mental problems who encounter the criminal justice system. He is the head of the Police Mental Health Liaison Service, an innovative service that provides support to police, including negotiators, working with people who are experiencing mental health problems. He leads a research group at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research and is the principal investigator of the Partners in Prevention study examining first responses to suicide crisis in Queensland. This work includes a globally unique linked data study of 70,000 individuals who were the subject of 220,000 suicide related call to emergency services, linked to 20 million health records.
Ed Heffernan is the Director of the Queensland Forensic Mental Health Service and a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland. He has over twenty-five years’ experience as a psychiatrist working with people in mental health crisis and people suffering mental problems who encounter the criminal justice system. He is the head of the Police Mental Health Liaison Service, an innovative service that provides support to police, including negotiators, working with people who are experiencing mental health problems. He leads a research group at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research and is the principal investigator of the Partners in Prevention study examining first responses to suicide crisis in Queensland. This work includes a globally unique linked data study of 70,000 individuals who were the subject of 220,000 suicide related call to emergency services, linked to 20 million health records.
