Rate My Professor Lisa Lampe

Conjoint Associate Professor Lisa Lampe is affiliated with the School of Medicine and Public Health in the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Sydney completed in 2017 on avoidant personality disorder and social phobia, and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Western Australia. A Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists since 1993, her professional journey began with training in general practice before transitioning to psychiatry. From 1992 to 2006, she was part of the Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety Disorders at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, where she developed advanced skills in cognitive behaviour therapy, particularly for social phobia and related anxiety disorders. She lectured in the Master of Psychological Medicine at the University of New South Wales from 1996 to 2002, served as Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Sydney Northern Clinical School from 2008 to 2017, and joined the University of Newcastle around 2018. There, she coordinated Year 2 of the Joint Medical Program, served as Program Convenor in 2019-2020, and has been Deputy Head of the School of Medicine and Public Health since 2021.

In clinical practice, Lampe is Senior Staff Specialist and Specialist Coordinator of Training in Psychiatry at Hunter New England Local Health District since 2023, with prior staff specialist roles in mental health services. She has been a part-time member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal since 2002, chaired the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Committee for Examinations from 2012 to 2019, and contributed to scholarly project subcommittees. Awards include the 2011 University of Sydney Three Minute Thesis and the Northern Clinical School Teaching Award for Psychological Medicine. Her research focuses on anxiety disorders, cognitive behaviour therapy, medical education, assessment, psychiatry, professional boundaries, and self-care. Key publications include co-authorship of textbooks The Treatment of Anxiety Disorders (Cambridge University Press), The Sydney Handbook of Anxiety Disorders, and The Sydney Textbook of Psychiatry; public books Take Control of Your Worry and Depression: Lifting the Cloud (with Christine Read); and the RANZCP clinical practice guidelines for panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, and generalised anxiety disorder (2018). Recent works cover professional boundaries and burnout (2023), online mental health assessments (2024), and virtual reality mindfulness for insomnia (2025). She has supervised PhD students, reviewed the DSM-5-TR avoidant personality disorder section, served as international external examiner, and was RANZCP Victorian Branch Visiting Scholar.