Dr
Philip LP Morris
Dr Morris has medical qualifications MBBS (Hons), BSc(med) (Hons), and
PhD. He is qualified in psychiatry and addiction medicine in Australia
and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of
Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) and a Fellow of the Australasian Chapter of
Addiction Medicine (FAChAM). He is qualified in general adult psychiatry
and geriatric psychiatry in the USA and is Board Certified by the
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). He is a Certified
Independent Medical Examiner (CIME) with the American Board of
Independent Medical Examiners (ABIME). Dr Morris is a Distinguished
Fellow and Board Member of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatry.
Dr Morris is Executive Director of the Gold Coast Institute of Mental
Health. He is Medical Director of Mirikai, a young adult drug and
alcohol rehabilitation program on the Gold Coast, and is Medical
Director of the Gold Coast – Tweed Memory Disorders Clinic. He has a
private psychiatric and medico-legal practice on the Gold Coast and in
Brisbane. He is a member of the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Reference
Committee and chairman of the RANZCP Continuing Professional Development
Subcommittee.
Dr Morris has held professor positions in psychiatry at the University
of Melbourne and the University of Queensland, and at the School of
Health Sciences at Bond University. At the University of Melbourne he
was the chairman of the Department of Psychiatry Research Committee. He
has been Medical Superintendent of Macquarie Psychiatric Hospital, North
Ryde NSW, and Director of Mental Health for the Gold Coast District
Health Service. He was the Foundation Professor/Director of the National
Centre for Post Traumatic Mental Health in Melbourne. He has been a
member of the Queensland Compensation (Q-Comp) Medical Assessment
Tribunal – Psychiatric.
His clinical and research interests include the psychiatric care of
medical and surgical patients (consultation–liaison psychiatry),
neuropsychiatry/psycho geriatrics, post-trauma syndromes, clinical drug
trials, and co morbid drug and alcohol and psychiatric conditions. Dr
Morris undertook post-graduate research and clinical training in the
USA. He has published many scientific articles and reports and has won a
number competitive government research grants as well as pharmaceutical
industry support for clinical drug trials. He is an external assessor
for the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
Dr Morris is trained in the application of the American Medical
Association Guides for the Assessment of Permanent Impairment and the
Psychiatric Impairment Rating Scale (PIRS).
Dr Morris is available for clinical consultations and medico-legal
reports. Contact him personally on 0422545753 or at
pmorris@iprimus.com.au Appointments on the Gold Coast can be made at
The Specialist Centre, Suite 2, Level 5, Pacific Private Clinic, 123
Nerang Street, Southport Qld 4215
(phone 07 55327655 and fax 07
55919183).
For memory clinic appointments contact 07 55992220.
Visit
http://www.memoryclinic.com.au/