Rate My Professor Pete Ellis

Emeritus Professor Pete Ellis, MA BM BCh (Oxon), PhD (Otago), FRANZCP, is a psychiatrist trained in Wellington, New Zealand. He was appointed Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Otago, Wellington in 1994 and served as Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine from 1994 to 2017. From 2012 to 2018, he was Associate Dean for Medical Education at University of Otago Wellington. Ellis has been extensively involved in psychiatric registrar training with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, serving on its Training and Fellowships Board Committees. He chaired or contributed to depression-related guideline developments and was a member of the Medicines Adverse Reactions Committee from 1996 to 2011. In medical education accreditation, he served on the Medical Council of New Zealand Education Committee and as Deputy Chair of the Medical Schools Accreditation Committee of the Australian Medical Council from 2011 to 2017. He participated in the initial pilot of problem-based learning in Wellington, served as alternate deputy chair of the Faculty Curriculum Committee from 2009 to 2018, contributed to the final stages of the curriculum map project, and was elected Deputy President of the Western Pacific Association for Medical Education in July 2018.

Professor Ellis's research has largely focused on affective disorders and suicidal behavior, service delivery, medical education, and the history of psychiatric treatments. He has supervised PhD studies on a range of topics and continues research with long-term collaborators. Key publications include Newton-Howes, G., Beverley, G., Ellis, P. M., Gordon, S., & Levack, W. (2018). What do final year medical students understand by the concept of recovery? A descriptive qualitative study. Academic Psychiatry, 42(3), 382-385; Happell, B., Gordon, S., Bocking, J., Ellis, P., Roper, C., Liggins, J., Platania-Phung, C., & Scholz, B. (2018). How did I not see that? Perspectives of nonconsumer mental health researchers on the benefits of collaborative research with consumers. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 27(4), 1230-1239; Every-Palmer, S., & Ellis, P. M. (2017). Clozapine-induced gastrointestinal hypomotility: A 22-year bi-national pharmacovigilance study of serious or fatal 'slow gut' reactions, and comparison with international drug safety advice. CNS Drugs, 31(8), 699-709; Gordon, S. E., Ellis, P. M., Siegert, R. J., & Walkey, F. H. (2014). Core dimensions of recovery: A psychometric analysis. Administration & Policy in Mental Health & Mental Health Services Research, 41, 535-542; Scott, K. M., Smith, D. R., & Ellis, P. M. (2010). Prospectively ascertained child maltreatment and its association with DSM-IV mental disorders in young adults. Archives of General Psychiatry, 67(7), 712-719.