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A/PROF. HELEN MILROY

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Helen Milroy is a descendant of the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia but was born and educated in Perth. She studied medicine at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and worked as a General Practitioner and Consultant in Childhood Sexual Abuse at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children for several years before completing specialist training in child psychiatry. Helen is a member of the RANZCP (Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry) committee for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and has contributed to the development of position statements, guidelines and curriculum on Indigenous mental health for the college.  She is also a member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians’ Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Committee. 

At present Helen works as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Bentley Family Clinic and Families At Work residential programme. Helen is also an Associate Professor and Director for the Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health (CAMDH) at UWA.