MMA FREE Webinar Series – Psychedelic-assisted therapies for mental illness: why innovation is needed now, more than ever – 16th March 2022

Dr Jennifer Loughman is a GP, having trained in medicine at University of Sydney and Biochemistry at the UNSW. She is a graduate of MMA’s first ever CPAT course, and provided advise in the science and health areas of the Prime Ministers department. She is cofounder of a start-up company in Canberra, bringing a new diagnostic into the health space.

She currently offers personalised, caring GP consultations in Canberra, having spent many years working around the country focused on Indigenous communities, regional communities plus less common gigs such as prisons and quarantine facilities, as well as running her own occupational health clinic.

Her serendipitous exploration into the therapy-assisted psychedelic space (via CPAT training with MMA) has opened up an exciting new field of medicine, as she finds this therapy compelling when compared to existing treatments and disease definitions. She will never look at mental health problems and solutions in the same way again and is looking toward helping general practitioners finding their role in this exciting, healing space.

As an investment banker Peter Hunt AM advised local and multi-national companies and governments in Australia for nearly 35 years.  He co-founded one of Australia’s leading investment banking advisory firms, Caliburn Partnership and was Executive Chairman of Greenhill Australia. Peter was a member of the Advisory Panel of ASIC and chaired the Vincent Fairfax Family Office.

Peter is an active philanthropist involved in funding, developing and scaling social sector organisations which seek to create a better and fairer world.  He is Chairman of Mind Medicine Australia which he established with his wife, Tania de Jong, in 2018. He regularly presents to Governments, regulators, clinicians, philanthropists and the general public on psychedelic-assisted therapies and the legal and ethical frameworks needed to ensure these treatments can be made accessible and affordable. He was the lead author of Mind Medicine Australia’s successful rescheduling applications for MDMA and psilocybin, which made Australia the first country in the world to reschedule these medicines.

He founded Women’s Community Shelters in 2011. Peter is a Director of The Umbrella Foundation. Peter also acts as a pro bono adviser to Creativity Australia.  He was formerly Chairman of So They Can, Grameen Australia and Grameen Australia Philippines.

Peter was made a member of the General Division of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2010 for services to the philanthropic sector.