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Webinar: Physical Health Matters

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With the rising stress during this pandemic and struggles with feeling trapped indoors, the correlation between physical wellbeing and mental health is becoming more apparent than ever.

In this webinar, Professor Peter Barlis will discuss the importance of physical health for our mental wellbeing and the capacity that caring for our physical health has for simultaneously improving our mental state and quality of life. Physical health is not only important in and of itself, but also because of its impact on the mind and the fact that #MentalHealthMatters.

About the speaker:

A Director on our Board of Directors at the Mental Health Foundation Australia, Peter is an internationally-recognised Interventional Cardiologist with the Northern and St Vincent’s Hospitals in Victoria and Professor of Medicine with the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, the University of Melbourne. After graduating from the University of Melbourne, he completed cardiology training at Austin Health followed by a Master of Public Health with Monash University.

In 2006, he secured a fellowship and scholarship at the prestigious Royal Brompton Hospital, London and then completed his PhD at the Thoraxcentre, Erasmus University the Netherlands, on the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT) in cardiology. OCT harnesses the properties of infrared light to look inside blood vessels in ultra-high resolution. Peter has since overseen OCT’s uptake across the region with over sixty centres in Australia and New Zealand benefiting from his foresight.

He is internationally renowned for his interventional and imaging academic output, and early development programs for novel therapies in cardiovascular disease. He has maintained connections all over the globe and continues to attract industry support for his research. He runs an active research group in biomedical engineering focused on coronary imaging and computational modelling with an interest in the development of innovative cardiovascular technologies.




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