Associate Professor Shalini Arunogiri

Clinical Director, Statewide Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Turning Point, Australia

Associate Professor Shalini Arunogiri

Clinical Director, Statewide Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Turning Point, Australia

Associate Professor Shalini Arunogiri is a clinical addiction psychiatrist and researcher. She is the Clinical Director of the Hamilton Centre - Victorian Statewide Centre for Addiction and Mental Health at Turning Point, and Associate Professor at Monash University. She is Chair of the RANZCP Faculty of Addiction Psychiatry, board member for the International Society of Addiction Medicine, and NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow at Monash Addiction Research Centre. She has over 50 peer reviewed publications and over $14M in research funding, following completion of her PhD in methamphetamine psychosis. Her work focuses on innovative pharmacological and psychosocial treatments for addiction, and she is completing a fellowship in the treatment of trauma in people with methamphetamine use disorder.