ProfessorPhilip Hazell

Philip Hazell is an Honorary Professor with the Sydney Medical School. Currently Philip is a locum psychiatrist with the Hunter New England Local Health District.

Philip completed his undergraduate medical training with University of Otago in 1980 and trained in general psychiatry and child psychiatry in Adelaide, South Australia from 1983 to 1989. From 1989 to 1998 Philip was Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry with the University of Newcastle, and then until 2006 he was Clinical Director of the Child and Youth Mental Health Service, Hunter New England Mental Health Service and a conjoint professor with the University of Newcastle. From 2006 to 2019 he was Director of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services for the Sydney Local Health District and Director of the Rivendell Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Service. From 2019 to 2024 he worked as a senior staff specialist first in the Walker Adolescent Unit in Concord, then the Youth Inpatient Program at Royal Darwin Hospital. He was a conjoint professor with the University of Sydney from 2006 to 2022, and served as the Head of Discipline of Psychiatry from 2012 to 2014.