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 Fellow at the CentreMHN and has a background in Public Health and Statistics.
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.
Puneet Sansanwal

Puneet is a Consumer Lived Experience Researcher/ Consumer Academic at Centre for Mental Health Nursing. He gained experience as a consumer peer support worker and a consumer consultant within Victoria’s public mental health system. Puneet is committed to advocate for reduced workplace stress across all sectors and for work culture that is supportive of positive mental health in workplaces.
Beck Hockin

Beck is the Program Administrator for the CentreMHN and is responsible for promoting the CentreMHN and events through digital/non-digital communications. Beck also plans and delivers the annual Collab Conference. Herself a Clinical Myotherapist, Beck also has significant experience working as a Clinical Placement Coordinator, Industry Consultant and Events Coordinator in the nursing, allied health, fitness, and higher education sectors. Beck is delighted to support mental health nursing and consumer academics to resource the mental health sector.
Hosu Ryu

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

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

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