Rate My Professor Lisa Lampe

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.