Event description

Mindgardens is pleased to present the ninth edition of the MindLabs Psychosis Webinar series for 2026, Youth Psychiatry: Leading the world and training the workforce, presented by Dr Daniel Pellen

Speaker

Dr Daniel Pellen has been the Chair of the RANZCP Binational Section of Youth Mental Health Committee since 2020 and lead a group which developed a sub-specialty training pathway in Youth Psychiatry, the first of its kind in the world. He is a Senior VMO Youth Psychiatrist in Child & Adolescent services at Prince of Wales Hospital and The Sutherland Hospital, Sydney. He is also a Consultant Youth Psychiatrist at headspace Port Macquarie and Camperdown. Daniel has worked in headspace centres since 2016, and since May 2023 has co-ordinated a monthly Community of Practice meeting for psychiatrists working in headspace centres across Australia. Daniel was also a member of the NSW MH Review Tribunal (Civil and Forensic divisions) from 2014 to 2024.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this webinar, attendees should understand:

• the origins of Youth Psychiatry as distinct from Adolescent and Adult psychiatry
• the importance of managing age transitions in medicine and especially in psychiatry
• the difficulty of introducing change in complex organisation such as a Medical College
• the difference and conflict between training demands and service delivery in medicine