Dr Anne Wand

Adjunct A/Prof Anne Wand is a senior staff specialist psychiatrist in Older Persons’ Mental Health and the Research Director for the Mental Health Service, in Sydney Local Health District.  She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of NSW. She is a member of the International Psychogeriatrics Association, an Associate Investigator of the UNSW Ageing Futures Institute, and a Fellow of the RANZCP. A/Prof Wand is Chair of the NSW Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age Subcommittee, RANZCP. She is the Deputy Chair of the mental health writing group of the Australian Medical Council.

A/Prof Wand is a clinician researcher with a Masters of Psychiatry and PhD. She has clinical and research experience in the field of old age psychiatry, including qualitative methodology. She has led a number of translational research projects including on self-harm in older adults, advance care planning with people with mental illness, Hoarding and squalor, delirium, human rights, psychotropic prescribing in community-dwelling people living with dementia, and evaluation and operationalisation of the delivery of psychiatry services in the general hospital and the Pathways to Community Living Initiative (PCLI).