Brighter Beginnings First 2000 Days Summit
Clinical psychologist Sydney Children's Hospital at Westmead
Clinical psychologist at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
Professor Adam Guastella is the Michael Crouch Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health. He is a clinical psychologist and based at both Sydney Children's Hospital at Westmead and the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney. His work aims to build collaborative partnerships between researchers, clinicians, and services to ensure that children and families receive the best available assessments and treatments to support well-being. As part of this role, he is the co-lead of the Child-Neurodevelopment and Mental Health Team for the University of Sydney and the Development Clinical Academic Group for Sydney Health Partners. These teams aim to solve complex problems for children with neurodevelopmental disorders and their families with a team of multi-disciplinary professors across the university.
NSW Health acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land across NSW, whose cultures and customs have nurtured and continue to nurture this land.
We would like to pay our respects to the Elders past, present and emerging, for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and the hopes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the state.