Associate Professor Yulia Furlong holds the position of Associate Professor in Psychiatry within the UWA Medical School at the University of Western Australia. She is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and one of the founding Directors of The Beacon Clinic, a professorial day clinic in Subiaco, Western Australia, offering advanced diagnostic and therapeutic services for young people with complex neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions. At UWA, she engages in postgraduate teaching, clinical training, and supervision of medical students, paediatric and psychiatry registrars, advanced trainees, and PhD candidates. She has contributed to the development of interprofessional curricula in child and adolescent mental health and is regularly invited to examine and review clinical training programs.

Furlong obtained her Doctorate in Psychiatry from University College Cork, Ireland, in 2009, with research on psychiatric comorbidities of chronic illness, resulting in peer-reviewed publications and a chapter in “Rheumatoid Arthritis” edited by Lemmey (2011). She also completed a Graduate Diploma in University Teaching and Learning at University College Dublin. Her professional honors include Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP), Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK), and accreditation as a member of the WA Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She chairs the WA Psychotropic Medication Expert Group and has served on several national and state committees addressing clinical excellence, service innovation, and safe prescribing in youth psychiatry. Her expertise covers complex ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, Tourette’s syndrome, paediatric psychopharmacology, and genomics-informed prescribing. Research interests include neurodevelopmental psychiatry across childhood and adolescence, integration of genomics in psychopharmacology, service reform in youth mental health, and translational models of interdisciplinary care. Key publications encompass “Child and adolescent neuropsychiatry” in the Oxford Textbook of Neuropsychiatry (2020), “Culture counts: The diverse effects of culture and society on mental health amidst COVID-19 outbreak in Australia” (Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2020), “Refractory case of Tourette's syndrome treated successfully with comprehensive behavioural therapy and aripiprazole” (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2022), and contributions to “Brain Tumour” (Agrawal, 2018) and “Autism Spectrum Disorder – Profile, Heterogeneity, Neurobiology and Intervention” (Fitzgerald, 2021).

Professional Email: yulia.furlong@uwa.edu.au