Professor Roger Bartrop

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Awards and Recognition
• Selected Publications
• Memberships and Engagement
• Contact Details

Biography

Roger Bartrop graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1963, and from the University of New South Wales with an MD in 1981.

His early post-graduate training was in paediatrics, pathology and adult medicine in Sydney teaching hospitals where he gained Membership in the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He subsequently trained in neuroanatomy and neurophysiology at the Royal College of Surgeons, London and in psychiatry at St Bartholomew’s and Kings College Hospitals in London.

Professor Bartrop’s interest in the mind/body interface and psychophysiology was fostered in London. On his return to Sydney he was awarded an Institute of Psychiatry Research Fellowship for the period 1975-77 for him to study the influence of the stress of bereavement on immune and psychological outcome measures. Further studies in diverse psychophysiological areas have followed. Current research at the University of Sydney is exploring other cardiological and prothrombotic aspects of grief stress and, in a separate study, aspects of smoking cessation.

Roger continues his teaching and research commitments at the University of Sydney & in a part-time Chair in Mental Health at the University of Western Sydney, Blacktown Hospital campus.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

• Bereavement: psychosocial and biological (haemodynamic, prothrombotic) correlates of grief
• Spinal injury (SCI)- sequelae and psychiatric morbidity as predictors of long term follow up.
• Massage therapy in SCI
• Traumatic brain injury & long-term follow-up
• Eating disorders
• Immunity correlates and hypothermia issues
• Music therapy in management of acute psychosis
• National drug register of antipsychotic medication in pregnancy
• Smoking Cessation: The Teachable Moment & Personal Identification
• Fanconi syndrome
• Colon cancer screening
• Antidepressant drug trials

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Grants / Current Projects

2006 – ongoing: National Register of Psychotic Medication in Pregnancy - (Pharmaceutical Company Grant & Rotary)

2006 – ongoing: Smoking Cessation: The Teachable Moment & Personal Identification (Department of Cardiology,Royal North Shore Hospital)

2006 – 2008: Cardiac Health in Bereavement (North Shore Heart Foundation)

2007: Cardiac Health in Bereavement (National Heart Foundation)

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Awards and Recognition

2007 Best Teacher in Psychiatry Award – Northern Clinical School, Sydney Medical School

2008 Distinguished Service Award for Teaching & Research – Discipline Psychiatry & Northern Clinical school, Sydney Medical school

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Selected Publications

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Memberships

Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (Section of Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry)
Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK)
Diploma of Psychological Medicine; (Royal College of Surgeon (ENG): Royal College of Physicians

Australasian Society of Medical Research
Society of History of Medicine – Sydney Medical School
Active member University of Sydney Graduate Choir

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