Rate My Professor Roger Mulder

Professor Roger T. Mulder is a Professor in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Otago, Christchurch, part of the Faculty of Medicine within the Division of Health Sciences. He earned his MBChB and PhD (1996) from the University of Otago and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP). With over 40 years of experience as a consultant psychiatrist, he previously served as Head of Department. His clinical work centers on consultation-liaison psychiatry, addressing psychiatric aspects of medical illnesses. Mulder's academic interests and research specializations include mood disorders, personality disorders, genetics, neurobiology, suicide, early psychosis, and the history and philosophy of psychiatry, particularly the classification of abnormal behaviour.

Mulder has published over 350 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, garnering more than 16,000 citations. Key works include co-authorship of the book 'Personality Disorder: From Evidence to Understanding' (2022, Cambridge University Press), 'The evolving nosology of personality disorder and its clinical utility' (2021, World Psychiatry), and 'Common versus specific factors in psychotherapy: opening the black box' (2017, The Lancet Psychiatry). Recent publications feature 'Efficacy and safety of micronutrient treatment for irritability in teenagers' (2026, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry) and contributions to studies on functional seizures and post-traumatic stress disorder. He influences the field as Co-Editor in Chief of Personality and Mental Health, Associate Editor of the New Zealand Medical Journal, and Chair of the World Psychiatric Association Personality Disorders Section. His research has shaped psychiatric classification, including input on ICD-11 personality disorder criteria.