Meet the CentreMHN Team

The CentreMHN is a small team with establishment/core staffing, including a director, nurse academics, lead consumer academic, research assistant and an events and communications officer. The team is supplemented with casual staffing to meet requirements for additional consultancies and grants.

A/Prof Bridget Hamilton

Bridget is the Director of CentreMHN, leading the team of clinical nurse academics and consumer academics.
Vrinda Edan

Vrinda is the Senior Consumer Academic for CentreMHN and has has been working for over 20 years in the consumer field.
Cat Van Remmen

Cat is a Consumer Academic and Project Manager for LEW projects. Cat has many years of experience in peer support and consumer perspective work.
Cath Roper

Cath is a Senior Consumer Academic. Cath has held the role of consumer academic at CentreMHN since 2000.
Cathie Miller

Cathie is a Mental Health Nurse Academic at Centre MHN. She is passionate about Trauma Informed Care, LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing, and supporting the learning and development of mental health nurses.
Dr Teresa Kelly

Teresa is a credentialed mental health nurse and an academic at the CentreMHN. Her areas of expertise include relational heart health, qualitative research, and clinical supervision for mental health nurses.
Roshani Prematunga

Roshani is a Research Assistant at the CentreMHN and has a background in Public Health and Statistics.
Megan Porter

Megan is the Programs, Events and Communications Officer at the CentreMHN and promotes the CentreMHN and events through digital/non-digital communications.
Wanda Bennetts

Wanda is a Consumer Academic at CentreMHN and has a background in education and a lived experience of mental health services.
Natasha Swingler

Natasha is a Consumer Academic in CentreMHN.
Leah McKenner

Leah is a Consumer Academic in CentreMHN.
Nina Joffee-Kohn

Nina is a Consumer Academic in CentreMHN.
Hamilton Kennedy

Hamilton is a Consumer Academic at the CentreMHN. They have a lived experience of madness and psychiatric hospitalisation which informs their work.
Hosu Ryu

Hosu is a PhD student. PhD Title: Evaluation of Clinical Supervision Implementation for Mental Health Nurses in Victoria, Australia.
Helena Roennfeldt

Helena is a PhD Student. PhD Title: All roads lead to ED: an analysis of the discourses surrounding responses to mental health crises.