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Associate Professor Yulia Furlong is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and founding Director of the Beacon Clinic in Subiaco, Western Australia, providing advanced diagnostic and therapeutic services to young people with complex neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions. At the University of Western Australia (UWA), she contributes to postgraduate teaching, clinical training, and supervision of research candidates. Her career spans clinical leadership, academic scholarship, and system-level advisory roles. Known for her expertise in complex ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, Tourette’s syndrome, and pediatric psychopharmacology, she chairs the WA Psychotropic Medication Expert Group and has contributed to national committees focused on clinical excellence and service innovation in youth psychiatry. A/Prof Furlong holds fellowships with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK. She earned her Doctorate in Psychiatry from University College Cork, Ireland, in 2009, and her research has explored psychiatric comorbidities and led to publications in peer-reviewed journals. She regularly supervises medical students and mental health trainees and has developed interprofessional curricula in child and adolescent mental health. Her clinical research interests include neurodevelopmental psychiatry, genomics in psychopharmacology, and service reform in youth mental health.
University of Western Australia • Perth, Australia
Contributes to postgraduate teaching and clinical training in Psychiatry.
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