Advisory Board

Dr Ross Carne

Ross is a neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist, and holds a Doctorate of Medicine investigating brain imaging in epilepsy, and a Masters in Medical Education. He has held positions as Foundation Director of Clinical Studies at Deakin University School of Medicine, and Clinical Sub Dean with St Vincent's Hospital, University of Melbourne.  

Ross has a strong interest in clinician wellbeing. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Society for Lifestyle Medicine, a movement which focuses on implementation of evidence-based lifestyle interventions in disease and in health. 

Ross developed an interest in mindfulness some 10 years ago, prompted then by his patients with epilepsy, and questions around the relationship of focused attention and seizures. He has since gone on to gain international certification in programs including the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program, and the Mindfulness in Medicine Program through Uni of Rochester, New York. He has taught these programs now for some years to medical practitioners at all career stages. 

Dr Larissa Bartlett

B.A. (Soc), B.Med.Sc.(Hons), PhD (Workplace Mental Health) 

Larissa is the Mind Games Research Fellow at the University of Tasmania’s Menzies Institute for Medical Research. She combines a passion for psychosocial health with scientific expertise in psychometric measurement, public health and behaviour change research, and program evaluation. Her doctorate focused on workplace delivered mindfulness-based interventions for stress, mental health, wellbeing and performance. Her ongoing mindfulness research includes a focus on its relationship with health risk factors, disease and multimorbidity, and on measuring the effects of mindfulness on behaviours that can impact others.

Larissa established the ISLAND Project, a large, 10-year public health study of over 15,000 older Tasmanian residents aiming to reduce dementia incidence, and is leading the Working Well study, to benchmark the capabilities in Tasmania’s employing organisations for managing worker mental health and inform government policy and services.

Larissa developed an interest in mindfulness after discovering the transformative effects of formal training and practice in 2011. She is registered to teach the MBSR program by the Mindfulness Training Institute of Australia and New Zealand and offers courses and custom programs that teach mindfulness principles, skills and practices in workplaces and in community.

Dr Anita Amorim
BPhysio (Hons), PhD 

Anita is a Senior Lecturer in the Physiotherapy Discipline at the Sydney School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney, where she holds teaching, research, and leadership responsibilities. She completed her PhD in Health Sciences, followed by a postdoctoral research fellowship in Public Health at the University of Sydney.