Rate My Professor Richard Clancy

Richard Clancy serves as Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery within the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He earned his Master of Medical Science in Clinical Epidemiology, Bachelor of Social Science, and Registered Nurse qualification from the University of Newcastle. Clancy brings over four decades of nursing experience at Hunter New England Health, where he has held positions including Nursing Research Fellow at the Centre for Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health from 2012 to 2022, Clinical Nurse Consultant in Mental Health and Substance Use from 2002 to 2012, and various nursing roles since 1979. He also contributes as a casual academic in the School of Psychological Sciences.

His research centers on translational research in mental health clinical practice, encompassing nursing, substance use, motivational interviewing, and comorbidity of mental health and substance use disorders. Clancy has co-authored key textbooks including Mental Health Care: An Introduction for Health Professionals in editions published in 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021, as well as the chapter Substance Use Disorders in 2024. Prominent peer-reviewed publications feature Systematic review and meta-analysis of the provision of preventive care for modifiable chronic disease risk behaviours by mental health services (2019), Increasing chronic disease preventive care in community mental health services: clinician-generated strategies (2023), Evaluation of an implementation support package to increase community mental health clinicians’ routine delivery of preventive care for multiple health behaviours (2023), Efficacy of a universal smoking cessation intervention initiated in inpatient psychiatry and continued post-discharge (2017), and The Illness Management and Recovery program: rationale, development, and preliminary findings (2006, over 500 citations). His work through randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews has advanced interventions for smoking cessation, chronic disease prevention, and substance use management in mental health settings, evidenced by over 30 journal articles and numerous conference presentations.