Brett McDermott is an Australian medical graduate who trained in Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the UK and Sydney. Professor McDermott holds academic appointments with the Universities of Tasmania and Shanxi, and is a By-Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge University. For many years he was the Executive Director of the Mater Child and Youth Mental Health Service (Brisbane, QLD) and from 2006-2016 was a Board Director of beyondblue: the National Depression Initiative. His c