Professor Carmelle Peisah is an old age psychiatrist and Conjoint Professor of Medicine at UNSW. She holds the positions of Conjoint Professor University of New South Wales; Clinical Associate Professor Sydney University; and founder and president of the charity Capacity Australia.
Professor Peisah's areas of expertise are capacity and human rights (including elder abuse prevention); BPSD management (including non-pharmacological management, de-prescribing and emergency sedation); doctor health and welfare (including ageing and retirement); family therapy in old age psychiatry; and end-of- life issues in dementia and mental illness. She has numerous awards for teaching and contributions to psychiatry and in 2017 was a Nominee for Woman of the Year.
E-mail: c.peisah@unsw.edu.au