ProfRoss Menzies

Professor Menzies completed his B.Sc (Psych), M.Psychol (both with first class honours), then a PhD in clinical psychology at the University of NSW. He has recently been appointed Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Health at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He was formerly Associate Professor in Health Sciences at the University of Sydney. In 1991, he was appointed founding Director of the Sydney University Anxiety Disorders Clinic, a post which he held for 20 years. He has also been the Chief Consultant Clinical Psychologist to that unit. He was a founding member of the Anxiety Disorders Foundation of Australia (NSW Branch), serving on the Board for two years. He was the Head and Director of the Anxiety and Stress Research Group, a collaborative research grouping of academics from three Australian universities. He was the past NSW President, and twice National President, of the AACBT. He is a board member of the AACBT and Chair of the National Conference Committee. He was the Convenor of the 29th National Conference of the AACBT in Sydney in 2006, and is the editor of Australia’s national CBT scientific journal, Behaviour Change. He was the Convenor and Chair of the 8th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, which was held in Australia in 2016. In 2019, he was one of two Australians appointed to the founding Board of the World Confederation of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (WCCBT).