Senior Lecturer
Psychological Medicine
Otago University
New Zealand
Senior Lecturer MB ChB(Otago) FRANZCP Ben Beaglehole is a new Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychological Medicine, UOC and inpatient psychiatrist at Hillmorton Hospital for the Canterbury District Health Board. Ben is participating in the Departmental research projects examining the longer term outcome of mood disorders and interventions to increase the likelihood of response and remission.
His other research interests include examining the effects of the recent Christchurch earthquakes on mental health service users and the local population. He is also interested in researching the outcome of various changes at the acute inpatient service as well as the outcome of patients after they leave the acute inpatient service.