Jon Jureidini

Jon Jureidini is head of the Department of Psychological Medicine, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide where he works in Consultation-Liaison psychiatry. He has academic status as Senior Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Flinders University and as Associate Professor in the Disciplines of Psychiatry and Paediatrics, University of Adelaide. He is spokesman for Healthy Skepticism Inc, an organisation devoted to countering misleading drug promotion. He is also a member of the Women's and Children's Hospital Patient Care Ethics Committee, and a chair of the board of Siblings Australia, an organisation which advocates for the needs of individuals with ill and disabled siblings. Publications in the last two years have addressed prescribing for children, immigration detention, suicide, and child abuse.