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The University of Western Australia (M521), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
Associate Professor Yulia Furlong is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and one of the founding Director of The Beacon Clinic, a professorial day clinic in Subiaco, Western Australia, providing advanced diagnostic and therapeutic services for young people with complex neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia (UWA), where she contributes to postgraduate teaching, clinical training, and supervision of research candidates.
With a career spanning clinical leadership, academic scholarship, and system-level advisory roles, A/Prof Furlong is known for her expertise in complex ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, Tourette’s syndrome, paediatric psychopharmacology, and genomics-informed prescribing. She chairs the WA Psychotropic Medication Expert Group and has contributed to several national and state committees focused on clinical excellence, service innovation, and safe prescribing in youth psychiatry.
A/Prof Furlong holds Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) and Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK). She is an accredited member of the WA Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
She earned her Doctorate in Psychiatry from University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, in 2009. Her doctoral research explored the psychiatric comorbidities of chronic illness within hospital liaison settings and led to publications in peer-reviewed journals, as well as a chapter in “Rheumatoid Arthritis” (Lemmey A., 2011).
A passionate educator, A/Prof Furlong also completed a Graduate Diploma in University Teaching and Learning at University College Dublin. At UWA, she supervises medical students, paediatric and psychiatry registrars, advanced trainees, and PhD students. She is regularly invited to examine and review clinical training programs and has contributed to the development of interprofessional curricula in child and adolescent mental health.
Her academic contributions include chapters in the Oxford Textbook of Neuropsychiatry, where she has authored content on ADHD, Tourette’s syndrome, Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, and the neuropsychiatric sequelae of paediatric brain tumours. She is also a contributor to “Brain Tumour” (Agrawal A., 2018) and “Autism Spectrum Disorder – Profile, Heterogeneity, Neurobiology and Intervention” (Fitzgerald M., 2021).
Her current clinical and research interests include:
Neurodevelopmental psychiatry across childhood and adolescence
Integration of genomics in psychopharmacology
Service reform in youth mental health
Translational models of interdisciplinary care
Associate Professor Furlong is committed to delivering culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and evidence-based psychiatric care that promotes recovery, resilience, and systemic inclusion for all children and adolescents.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Psychiatry , Research MD, Psychiatric co-morbidities of Rheumatoid Arthritis , University College Cork
Award Date: 2 Mar 2009
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Conference paper
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Furlong, Y. (Creator), Pedro, Z. (Creator), Derrick, C. (Creator), Lin, A. (Creator) & Chen, W. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, Mar 2022
DOI: 10.26182/yvhd-5s86
Dataset
23/06/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Furlong, Y. (Participant)
Impact: Health and Well being Impact
Furlong, Y. (Participant), Pedro, Z. (Participant) & Derrick, C. (Participant)
Impact: Understanding and Awareness Impact