Rate My Professor Anne Wand

A/Prof Wand specializes in old age psychiatry, with research interests in self-harm and suicide prevention in older adults, advance care planning for people with mental illness, hoarding and squalor, delirium, human rights, psychotropic prescribing in dementia, and mental health service evaluation including the Pathways to Community Living Initiative. Key publications include 'Suicide prevention in the context of ineligibility for voluntary assisted dying: emerging insights' (BMC Psychiatry, 2026), 'Evaluation of a novel educational intervention for mental health staff on advance care planning with older people with mental illness' (European Geriatric Medicine, 2026), 'Cognitive impairment in older people accessing public mental health services across Australia and New Zealand: Implications for clinical practice, workforce development and service provision' (Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2025), and 'Mortality in people living with dementia who self-harmed: An Australian data linkage study' (Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2024). She has secured grants such as the 2023 Moyira Elizabeth Vine Fund for advance care planning in schizophrenia and the 2021 NSW Ministry of Health grant for an Older Peoples Aftercare Service Delivery Model. In leadership, she chairs the NSW Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age Subcommittee, RANZCP, and is Deputy Chair of the Australian Medical Council’s mental health writing group. She received the Dean’s Award for PhD thesis in Medicine, UNSW, 2020.