About

Prof Einfeld is the Chair of Mental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences and Senior Scientist, Brain and Mind Research Institute.

Awards include the World Health Organisation Travelling Fellow, Australian Society for Psychiatric Research Junior Travel Award, National Research Prize from the Australian Society for Study of Intellectual Deficiency (co-held with Professor Bruce Tonge, Monash University).

Professor Einfeld has 90 peer reviewed journal publications (first author for 53 of these), 4 book chapters, 4 manuals, 2 software packages, and 16 published conference proceedings. He is an invited first author of the Chapter on Intellectual Disability for Rutter’s textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the world’s leading scholarly text in the field. Professor Einfeld has made over 50 invited addresses, both national and international. In 2001 he was one of only 3 non-US experts invited by the National Institutes of Health, USA, to present at an NIH research planning symposium on mental retardation and psychopathology. Professor Einfeld’s competitive grants total AU$5,615,367

Through advocacy, presentations and writings, Professor Einfeld has played a major role in promoting a re-emergence of interest in intellectual disability in the psychiatric profession in NSW in particular, and was an invited consultant to WHO for the Decade of the Disabled.