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Justin Kenardy is a clinical health psychologist and Deputy Director of the Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD), and Professor at the Schools of Psychology and Medicine Justin Kenardy works in the broad area of behavioural medicine and is Professor of Medicine and Psychology at the University of Queensland. He has particular interests in anxiety and post-traumatic stress in relation to physical illness or injury.
He started a line of research on psychological aspects of whiplash related disorders, working in partnership with Professor Michele Sterling, this led to a number of high profile publications and several large grants through NHMRC and ARC. He is a CI for the NHMRC Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Health.
He continues his work on e-mental health and has obtained a several Grants to develop and evaluate internet and virtual reality interventions. He was also a CI on a Beyond Blue funded initiative to develop and evaluate a public health oriented e-mental health website in collaboration with ANU.
He has focussed his interest in trauma on children. His work in this area has built on a program of research aimed at the development and evaluation of preventative and early intervention for anxiety and posttraumatic stress. This has led to a number of NHMRC grants and an NIH grant to study this population.
He holds an appointment as Adjunct Fellow at the Centre for Mental Health Research at ANU, and as Adjunct Professor, Institute of Social Science Research at UQ. He was also awarded a Visiting Fellowship by the Scottish Executive to travel to Scotland to develop internet-based prevention programs for anxiety disorders. He currently sits on the Editorial Board of Health Psychology, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, Evidence-based Mental Health, and The Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma, and is the Past Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Psychologist. He has been appointed Deputy Program Chair, 28th International Society Traumatic Stress Studies Annual Conference (2010-2011) and is President-Elect, Australian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. He is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and was awarded the Ian Campbell Prize for his contribution to clinical psychology in Australia.
Justin Kenardy is currently Deputy Director of the Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine. He has published over 200 books, chapters and papers and has obtained over $43 million in competitive grants and research contracts.
As at 1/3/12:
Refereed Journal Papers: 120
Books: 2
Book Chapters: 12
Websites: 5
Citations:10,950: 4000 peer-reviewed journals, Cites/paper: 24, Cites/year: 140; 7000 citations in books and book chapters.
h index: 35
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