Speaker's Profile

Dr Kathryn Turner is a Psychiatrist and Executive Director of Metro North Mental Health, a large mental health, alcohol and other drug service in Brisbane, Australia. She has had a longstanding interest in education, training, continuous improvement of quality and safety, evaluation, and a focus on culture in the workplace. Dr Turner led the implementation of the Zero Suicide framework in her previous service, the Gold Coast Mental Health and Specialist Services which demonstrated significant positive outcomes of this work.  Dr Turner implemented a Restorative Just Culture framework into the service, providing support for consumers, carers, clinicians and the organization to heal, learn and improve following the loss of a consumer to suicide. In 2018, she was awarded the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Margaret Tobin Award for administrative psychiatry.