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Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, 100 Mallett Street, Camperdown, NSW, 2050, Australia.adam.guastella@sydney.edu.au (A.J. Guastella).
We acknowledge a NHMRC career development fellowship (APP1061922) and Project Grants (1043664 and 1125449) as well as a BUPA Foundation Grant to Adam J. Guastella, US National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants R01MH112788 and 1P50MH100023 to L.J.Y. and P51OD11132 to the Yerkes National Primate Research Center (YNPRC), a NHMRC senior principal research fellowship (APP1136259) to Ian B. Hickie and an Research Training Program Fellowship to Marilena M. DeMayo (SC0042/SC1999).
Professor Ian Hickie was an inaugural Commissioner on Australia’s National Mental Health Commission (2012–18). He is the Co-Director, Health and Policy at the Brain and Mind Centre (BMC) University of Sydney. The BMC operates an early-intervention youth services at Camperdown under contract to headspace. Professor Hickie has previously led community-based and pharmaceutical industry-supported (Wyeth, Eli Lily, Servier, Pfizer, AstraZeneca) projects focused on the identification and better management of anxiety and depression. He was a member of the Medical Advisory Panel for Medibank Private until October 2017, a Board Member of Psychosis Australia Trust and a member of Veterans Mental Health Clinical Reference group. He is the Chief Scientific Advisor to, and an equity shareholder in, Innowell. Innowell has been formed by the University of Sydney and PwC to deliver the $30 m Australian Government-funded ‘Project Synergy’. Project Synergy is a three year program for the transformation of mental health services through the use of innovative technologies. He is the Chief Scientific Advisor to, and a 5% equity shareholder in, InnoWell Pty Ltd. InnoWell was formed by the University of Sydney (45% equity) and PwC (Australia; 45% equity) to deliver the $30 M Australian Government-funded Project Synergy (2017–20; a three-year program for the transformation of mental health services) and to lead transformation of mental health services internationally through the use of innovative technologies.
We would like to thank Miriam-Rose Ash, Eleanor Taylor, Milunka Zivadinovic, Patrick Locke, Shrujna Patel and Patrick May for editing assistance and Heidi Cartwright and Marcus Cremonese for their assistance in developing figures.
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