An Inquiry into Australia's Excess Mortality - Dr O'Connors

DR MONIQUE O'CONNOR
Dr O’Connor is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Australian expert in grief. She has had broad experience in clinical psychiatry, with special interest in Psychiatry of Old Age and Palliative
Care. She was the Director of Advanced Training in Psychiatry of Old Age in WA for five years.

Dr O'Connor developed an interest in grief following bereavement, a neglected subject in both medical training and service delivery. She undertook specialist training at the Center for Prolonged Grief, Columbia University under Dr Kathy Shear. In 2017 she established a private practice specialising in grief and providing Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy.

Dr O’Connor shares her expertise through teaching, supervision and academic publication. She is a passionate advocate of grief education promotion in health sciences. Her ambition is to improve the management of high-risk bereavements, with the aim of reducing the burden of chronic mental illness and suicide risk associated with prolonged grief.

Dr O’Connor graduated in medicine from Kings College, University of London and trained in psychiatry in Western Australia.