Julia Lappin is a Neura Quest Scholar, Associate Professor at UNSW’s Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health and a Clinical Academic Psychiatrist at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney.

Her appointment makes her the first clinical psychiatrist appointment at NeuRA, underpinned by NeuRA’s inaugural affiliation agreement with the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District.

Julia led the development of the NSW Tertiary Referral Service for Psychosis and served as its inaugural Clinical Director for five years (2020-2025). She currently runs implementation projects of interventions which improve quality of life in people with mental health disorders.

Julia has a broad range of interests across research and clinical practice, with a focus on improving outcomes in mental health disorders, and in optimising brain health, particularly cognitive and mental health, throughout life.