Sarris, jerome

Prof Jerome Sarris

Clinical Researcher; Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, Neurala Biosciences; Professor, Swinburne University of Technology, NICM Health Research Institute, University of Melbourne; Clinical Consultant, Evergreen Doctors
Professor Jerome Sarris, is a researcher and clinician who has spent over three decades advancing evidence-based mental health care. Jerome holds various professorial academic positions, including at Melbourne University within the medical faculty. He has been educated across a range of integrative medicine and psychology fields, with doctoral and postdoctoral training at the University of Queensland, Melbourne University and Harvard Medical School.

For GPs navigating the space of nutraceuticals and lifestyle medicine for mental health application, his extensive background provides increased clinical certainty. He has conducted over 40 clinical trials in the field, publishing over 260 papers in top-tier journals like Lancet Psychiatry and JAMA, and led the definitive global clinical guidelines (WFSBP/CANMAT) for nutraceuticals and plant-based medicines in psychiatry.

In addition to his work as a founder of a biotechnology spin-out from Melbourne University, he also now consults via Telehealth through Evergreen Doctors.

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