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Curriculum Vitae, Dr Yolande Lucire,  PhD

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CURRICULUM VITAE  |   Dr Yolande Lucire
PhD

Website:  www.drlucire.com   (Most papers are available in full on the website).

Qualifications
2011                    Certificate of Competence in Safety Pharmacogenomics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
1970 - 2011         Member, then Fellow, Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
1996                    PhD, UNSW, Public Health, Medical Anthropology, History of Psychiatry, Ethics, & History & Philosophy
                            of Science.                                                  
1967                    Diploma of Psychological Medicine, London 
1964                    MBBS, University of Sydney
 
Work
1997 to Present:  Research into medication-induced causes of death, suicide and homicide and conditions leading to them, and
                            the costs of mental health. 
2009 - 2018         Medico-legal psychiatry related to workers’ compensation claims and research into genetic links to adverse
                            reactions to psychiatric drugs.
1972 - 2008         Private practice, originally child and family, psychotherapy then general, forensic and medico-legal psychiatry in
                            Sydney; medico-legal work relating to psychiatric defences in criminal proceedings and workers’ compensation/
                            personal injury claims; research resulting in the papers listed below.
2001 - 2006         Conjoint Senior Lecturer, Psychiatry, Rural Medical School. (Mickey Mouse title).
1997 - 2005         Consultant Psychiatrist, Nolan House, Albury.
2005                    Senior Research Associate, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney. 
1983 - '94 & '96   Senior Forensic Psychiatrist, Consultant to Department of Corrective Services NSW, and Long Bay Prison
​                            Hospital. 
1995                    Fellow – Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (completing PhD).
1994 - 1995         Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, London, Devonshire Place. 
                             Locum Consultant Psychiatrist, East Ham Memorial Hospital.
1972 - 1980         Consultant (VMO), South Sydney Hospital (including Rehabilitation). Psychiatrist, Rozelle Hospital, Sydney.
1967 - 1972         General Practice. 
1968 - 1970         Senior Registrar in Child Psychiatry, Royal Alexandria Hospital for Children.
1967                    Registrar, Sutton & Belmont Hospital, Surrey, UK. 
1965                    SRMO, Netherne Hospital, Surrey, UK.
1964                    RMO, Prince Henry Hospital.

Book
2003                    Constructing RSI: Belief and Desire, UNSW Press.         https://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n01/carl-elliott/scriveners-palsy

PhD
1996                    Ideology and aetiology: RSI an epidemic of craft palsy. This multidisciplinary humanities PhD was written in the
                            Department of History and Philosophy of Science and was examined in public health, medical anthropology and
​                            history of medicine and reviewed by an ethicist. 

The reviews:

Professor Arthur Kleinman
Department of Anthropology
Wm. James Hall 330 Harvard University
CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138
USA  February 1997
Re: Ideology and Aetiology: RSI, an Epidemic of Craft Palsy.

This is a scholarly dissertation, written with great clarity and including an impressive review of several literatures: RSI, writers' block, somatization, etc.  The last is about as well reviewed as I could have hoped.  The central argument is advanced with considerable empirical support from the research literature.  It is an argument for the role of cultural and social research in clinical and policy settings as much as for psychiatry's role in assessing an epidemic of functional complaints.

The idea of collective experience of functional symptoms receives a good deal of support in the dissertation.  This is an important advance over the great emphasis routinely given the individual level of analysis.  The author reviews this as well as linguistic, gender, and political aspects of expressing the problem.  The issue at hand is the iatrogenic creation of moral pain and shared illness complaints owing to medical, union, and other social activities.   This social genesis not only explains this case study but a number of other instances of collective sickness as well.  It is nicely grounded in anthro studies.

The thesis builds very effectively from classical medical sociological accounts to the ideas of medical history, and clinical and social science assessment.  The fact that the author is herself a protagonist in the Australian epidemic lends poignancy to the dissertation.  

The critical review and analysis impresses me as original, scholarly and compelling.  I have no problem whatsoever with the methodology or findings. The interpretation for my interests is perhaps too focused on political economic issues and cultural matters. In fact, what is most impressive about this account is the attempt to relate RSI to larger contextual social forces. It is surprising in this regard not to read much mention of the role of the 'state'.

​I think this thesis would be accepted in most Departments of Anthropology and Medicine in the U.S.; indeed, it should be published as a monograph. I give it a high recommendation.  The analysis is critical, balanced, and focused on the key questions. This thesis should be published.
 
***
Edward Shorter, PhD
Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto
CANADA
Re: Ideology and Aetiology: RSI, an Epidemic of Craft Palsy

I found this thesis most impressive and I unconditionally recommend its acceptance.

This thesis takes a scholarly look at the epidemic of 'Repetition Strain Injury" (RSI) that affected Australia during the l980s, placing the epidemic in the context of writing on international patterns of epidemic hysteria and of Australian medical politics and labour relations.

The author's conclusion, that RSI represented a combination of suggestibility on the part of sufferers, self-serving aggrandisement on the part of some members of the medical profession, and a Labour-relations strategy on the part of the unions strikes me as well born out by the facts.  Lucire has reconstructed this story on the basis of primary sources, has set it within the framework of medical sociology, and has told it in a literate and lively manner.  That the author herself had a partisan role in the events she describes does not detract from the scholarly value of the thesis: Given the research she had done, I think it would be difficult to come to any conclusion other than the one she reaches. 

The dissertation represents that rather rare bird, a scholarly study that has the ability to make a considerable impact on public policy and discussion.  A triumph of original scholarship and thought, it deserves to be published as a book.  Lucire's work should have a considerable impact on the debate about such vexing conditions as RSI, both in Australia and abroad.  

***
Dr Stephanie Short
School of Health Services Management
University of NSW
Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Re Ideology and Aetiology: RSI, an Epidemic of Craft Palsy

This is a fascinating iconoclastic thesis.  The first chapter provides a very good overview and analysis of the relevant literature in the social studies of science, and of key developments and insights in medical sociology. It draws in particular on insights from labelling theory, and from the work of Parsons, Freidson, and Navarro, with emphasis on the role of physicians as moral entrepreneurs. The thesis draws also on the work of the libertarian/anarchist, Ivan Illich.

In my view this thesis makes an original contribution to our academic understanding of the social construction of medical knowledge, through analysis of the case study of RSI.  The case study reveals how certain trade union officials, Federal government agencies and a handful of doctors constructed, albeit unwittingly, the epidemic of repetitive strain injury in Australia in the l980s. The insights about the political and social context within which the occupational health and safety movement developed are particularly fascinating and convincing. 

The thesis reveals a more than respectable knowledge of the injury and somatization paradigms in occupational health and safety, and makes a convincing case for an alternative explanatory perspective which posits that RSI can be understood as a socially constructed epidemic, or as an example of cultural iatrogenesis. The implications of this thesis for ethical medical practice and for the funding and organisation of health care are immense. This has clearly been a very costly epidemic for many involved, both in human and financial terms. And professional and other empires have been built on it.

Recent invited speaker 
2019    Royal College of Pathologists of Australia (RCPA), Pathology Update 2019, The Power of Personalised Pathology, 22-24  
            February. From Personalized Medicine to Personalized Justice: the promises of translational pharmacogenomics in the
            justice system.

2018    International Association of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology Congress (IATDMCT), Top Science
            Down Under, 16-19 September. Antidepressants leading to akathisia in poor metabolisers.  
2018    Health Practitioners of Australia Reform Association Conference (HPARA), 26 May. How medication-induced catastrophes
            were
covered up at the HCCC, Medical Board & NSW Health: A whistle blower's tale of reprisals.
            Publications in peer reviewed medical and forensic and law journals        
2018    Lucire, Y., Crotty, C., & Eikelenboom, S. Critique of Ekhart et al. (still in press: asking for retraction). 
2017    Cole, S., Polasek, T. M., Perera, V., & Lucire, Y. Do drug interactions in CYP poor metabolizers increase the risk of serious
            adverse effects to zolpidem?
mm      https://scholar.google.com.au/scholarhl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Do+drug+interactions+in+CYP+poor+metabolizers+
            increase+the+ risk+of+serious+adverse+effects+to+zolpidem&btnG=


2016    Loonen, A. J., & Verkes, R. J. (2016). Comments on Lucire and Crotty, 2011. Pharmacogenomics and Personalized
            Medicine
, 9, 85. 
2016    Lucire, Y. (2016). Comments on Lucire and Crotty, 2011, Reply. 
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4993408  
​
2016    Ng, L., & Lucire, Y. (2016). Distilling ethics, compassion, science and the art of medicine. BMJ, 355, i6510. 
            http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6510

2016    Lucire, Y. The effect of CYP450 2D6* 4 mutation on medication response: Two cases with different outcomes.
            https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7148/15f52c1d28dbe3bfc470fca0368a97050859.pdf

2016    Lucire, Y. (2016). Pharmacological iatrogenesis: Substance/medication-induced disorders that masquerade as mental
            illness. Epidemiology (Sunnyvale), 6(217), 2161-1165. 
2016    Eikelenboom-Schieveld, S. J., Lucire, Y., & Fogleman, J. C. (2016). The relevance of cytochrome P450 polymorphism in
            forensic medicine and akathisia-related violence and suicide. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 41, 65-71.
            https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1752928X16300051

2011    Lucire, Y., & Crotty, C. (2011). Antidepressant-induced akathisia-related homicides associated with diminishing mutations in
            metabolizing genes of the CYP450 family. Pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine, 4, 65.
            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3513220/

2010    Wong, S. H., Happy, C., Blinka, D., Gock, S., Jentzen, J. M., Donald Hon, J., Lucire, Y. ... & Neuman, M. G. From
            personalized medicine to personalized justice: the promises of translational pharmacogenomics in the justice system. 
            Pharmacogenomics, 11(6): 731-737. 
            https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/pdfplus/10.2217/pgs.10.63

2007    Lucire, Y. (2007). New Drugs New Problems. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 41(1_suppl). 
2005    Lucire, Y. (2005). Do SSRIs induce suicide: A Daubert hearing. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 39,
            A147. 
2005    Lucire, Y. (2005). New drugs, new problems. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 37(1), 9-25.    
            http://psychrights.org/articles/newdrugsnewproblems.htm

2005    Lucire, Y. Pharma Fraud, Pharmacological Iatrogenesis and the Crisis in Mental Health. Precedent (the Law Magazine).
            http://138.25.65.17/au/journals/PrecedentAULA/2006/28.html
 
2004    Lucire, Y. Do Second Generation Antidepressants Cause Suicide? A Daubert Hearing. Australian Journal of Forensic
            Sciences
, May 19.
2003    Lucire, Y. (2003). Is confabulation legitimate evidence? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 37,
            A24-A25.
2002    Lucire, Y. (2002). Comparison codes medical practice act and common law: Whither 200 years of due process? Australian
           Journal of Forensic Sciences
, 34(1), 22-24.
2002    Lucire, Y. (2002). Confabulation and other pathologies of belief. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 36(6),
            pp. A27-A27. 
2002    Lucire, Y. (2002). New drugs new problems: Medico-political expose of the suicide crisis in mental health. Australian Journal
            of Forensic Sciences
.
2002    Lucire, Y. (2002). Sex and the practitioner: The victim. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 34(1), 17-24. 
2001    Lucire, Y. Constructing RSI: Belief and Desire. See reviews above.
2001    Sex and the practitioner: The Victim. Presented at the Plenary Session of the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences,  
            September 11. Debate with former Health Care Complaints Commissioner, Merrilyn Walton.
            https://www.academia.edu/10398761/Sex_and_the_Practitioner_The_Victim

2001    The social construction of the war neuroses: Are we being served? Commissioned paper for 11th Brigade Senior Medical
            Officers Conference, 14 July, Townsville. Presented again, RANZCP Forensic Section Conference, 2001. Published in BMJ
            online.
2000    Lucire, Y. (2000). The Bearing of Daubert on Sexual Abuse Litigation. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 32(2), 45-59.
2000    Constructing RSI: Belief and Desire.  British Medical Journal, 328(7435), 354. Book review.
2000    Comparative analysis of paradigmatic assumptions of the true believers and the sceptics contributing to moral panic about
            child sexual abuse
. 
1993    Lucire, Y. (1993). Medea: Perspectives on a multicide. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 25(2), 74-82. 
1989    Analysis of the Function of the Expert, in "The Expert Witness Self- Examined" in book, The Expert Medical Witness,
            Federation Press 1989.
1988    Lucire, Y. (1988). A Reply to Dr Russell. Journal of Community Health Studies, 12(2), 140-143. 
1988    Social Iatrogenesis of Epidemic Neurosis: (RSI). Journal of Community Health Studies, 12(2). 
1986    Lucire, Y. (1986). Angry debate as psychiatrist claims RSI is in the mind. The National Times.
1986    Institutionalised & Rewarded Neurosis: RSI, the Australian Disease. Australian Institute of Management Journal, April
            1986.  
1986    Lucire, Y. (1986). Neurosis in the workplace. Medical Journal of Australia, 145(7), 323-327.
1986    Repetitive Strain Injury - An Epidemic of Craft Palsy. Proceedings of the Medico-Legal Society of NSW. Vol. 8, pages
​            134-146.
1986    Lucire, Y. (1986). RSI: When emotions are converted. Safety in Australia, 9, 8-12.
1986    RSI, an Epidemic of Craft Palsy. A chapter commissioned by Dr. (now professor) Ivor Jones, then Snr. lecturer in Psychiatry,
            Melbourne University, for textbook, "Essentials of Australian Forensic Psychiatry," 1986. (This book was never published).
1986    Theory and philosophy of assessment: An analysis of the sources of variance in expert opinion evidence. Forensic
            Psychiatry Bulletin
, 1986.  
1985    Lucire, Y. (1985). What the community can do about epidemic conversion. In RSI: Medical Mythology seminar. Organized by
            Social Impacts Pty Ltd, Sydney (Vol. 21).
1983    Lucire, Y. (1983). 2 New Laws-the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and Freedom of Information Act. Social Alternatives, 47.
1982    Lucire, Y. (1982). Review of the First 50 AAT Decisions. Legal Service Bull., 7, 27. The Medical Evidence in the First 50
            Administrative Appeals Tribunal Decisions. Legal Service Bulletin, Dec. 1982. (Australian) Analysis of the difficulties of
            evaluation of Invalid Pension applicants. 
1981    Lucire, Y. (1981). I Fear the Greeks when they Bear Gifts. Legal Service Bull., 6, 34. 
1975    Lucire, Y. (1975). Factors influencing conception in women seeking termination of pregnancy a pilot study of 100 women. 
            Medical Journal of Australia, 1(26), 824-827. 
            https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1152777/

​Conferences & presentations
2018    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP), Forensic Psychiatry Conference, Sydney, Sep 6-8.
            Poster: Respiratory collapse, genetic pharmacology & protecting the public.
2018    The Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences, Plenary Session, May 16. From personalized medicine to personalized
             justice: The promises of translational pharmacogenomics in the justice system
.
2017    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Conference, Forensic Section, Fremantle. The
            relevance of cytochrome P450 polymorphism in forensic medicine and akathisia-related violence and suicide
. 
2012    The Australia and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry (ANZAPPL), Psychology and Law Conference, ‘Evolving
             Paradigms in Forensic Practice,’ Melbourne, November. Failure of regulators.
​             https://slideplayer.com/slide/7960712/
​

2012    The Conference of the Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, Education & Living, Syracuse, NY, April 13-15.  Invited
            speaker, plenary session: Akathisia homicides. 
            
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEoSs6Yo0DA

2012    Pharmacogenomics and Psychiatry Conference, New York, 30 March. Two Posters: Do street drugs cause schizophrenia?
            Why do some people think they do
?
            https://www.drlucire.com/do-street-drugs-cause-schizophrenia.html  

2012    Human Genome Meeting, March 11 - 14, Darling Harbour, Sydney. Homicides under mental health care. 
2009    Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists Conference (ASCEPT). CYP450
            testing may be essential in psychiatry. 

2009    Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research 40th Anniversary Symposium, 18-19 February. Poster: Genetic Polymorphisms,
            Antidepressants, Akathisia Homicide and the Crisis in Mental Health: Prototype for a Project to Provide Adequate Defences
.
2006    Conference, The Proliferation of Diseases that cannot be objectified. Fribourg, Switzerland, 14-15 September. Constructing
            RSI: Iatrogenesis of an epidemic
. 
2006    Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, 8th -10th July. Constructing RSI: Iatrogenesis of an
            epidemic
.
2006    Disease Mongering Conference, Newcastle, Australia, April. Constructing RSI: Iatrogenesis of an Epidemic.
2006    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Conference (RANZCP), Gold Coast, Australia. The effects of
            pharmaceutical industry fraud, and the Texas Medication Algorithm Project on mental health costs and demand
. 
2005    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 40th Conference, Sydney, 22-27 May. Akathisia and crime:
            Product liability issues
.
2005    Blackheath Philosophy Forum, May 9. The ethics of the solitary empiricist: How pharmas changed common human
            unhappiness into a deficit disease
. 
2005    Presented Section of Forensic Psychiatry, April 9. New Drugs New Problems (PowerPoint presentation).
2004    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Conference, Forensic Section, October, Fremantle, Australia. 
            SSRIs and their effects on Mental Health Presentations: A plausible Hypothesis (PowerPoint presentation). 
2004    Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences, May 19. SSRIs: Do they cause suicide? The science: Daubert admissible
            evidence
. Also presented at International conference of Medical Law, Sydney, 2004.
2003    RANZCP Forensic Section Conference, October, Geelong, VIC. The use of textual analysis in differentiating true from
            fabricated sex abuse allegations
, and Forensic issues. risk benefit analysis and potential for litigation in Australia. Duty to
            warn?
 (PowerPoint presentation). 
2002    The Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry Conference (ANZAPPL), Darwin, Australia, July. Confabulation:
            Forensic issues
.
2001    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Conference (RANZCP), Forensic Section, Health status and
            predicament in claimants for RSI 1986-1992
. 
2001    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Conference (RANZCP), Forensic Section. Politicising medicine
            and medicalizing industrial relations
.
2001    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Conference (RANZCP), Brisbane, QLD, June. Towards a
            taxonomy of confabulation
. 
2000    Garran and Baxter Conference on Psychological Injury. The politicization of medicine and the medicalization of industrial
            relations
. 
2000    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Conference (RANZCP), Forensic Section, June, Port Douglas,
            Australia. How to do a sex abuse evaluation.
1996    Philosophy and Psychiatry Conference, 1996. The five-colour theorem: A model to elucidate the components of illness,
            disease and morbidity.

1992    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Conference, Brisbane, Australia. The narcissist
            in the culture of compensation
.
1991    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Conference, Forensic Section, November 15-20. Life
            events and getting sick with "RSI."

1991    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Conference, Forensic Section, November 15-20. The
            NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal, first seven years of operations.
1990    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Conference, November, Leura, Australia. The Role
            of the Psychiatric Assessor in Personal Injury Claims
. 
1990    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: What is a disease? Debate with the Prince of Wales Hospital, presented in November 1990,
            at the Institute of Psychiatry in NSW, for Continuing Medical Education.      
1986    Conference of the Medico-legal Society of Victoria, Kotakinabalu, Malaysia. Square pegs in round holes: A comparison of
            medical & legal concepts of "causation" in epidemic neurosis, using the epidemic of RSI as an example
. Published in 
            Proceedings. 
1986    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Conference, May. Differential Diagnosis of
            Conversion
.  
1986    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Conference, May. Resistance to paradigm shift: The
            injury theory versus the psychosocial model of causation in epidemic RSI
. 
1986    When emotions get converted. On the genesis of RSI as conversion disorder. Presented paper at: RSI: Medical
            Mythology, Social Impacts. February.
1986    What the community can do about epidemic conversion? Presented paper at: RSI: Medical Mythology, Social Impacts.
            February.
1985    Neurosis in an occupational setting. Presented paper at: RSI: Medical Mythology, Social Impacts, November.
1985    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Conference, Hobart, May. The Use of Proforma for
            Disability Evaluation
. Unpublished, but widely read. 
1985    The First Forensic Interview, "RSI" - the Use of a Pre-Printed Proforma. Presented November 1985 and available in
            video from the Institute of Psychiatry, Rozelle Hospital.   
1982    Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Conference, The Adversary System or a Better
            Way? 
Prepared as a submission on the Invalid Pension problem for Senator Grimes in 1982.  

Submissions
2017    A Senate Inquiry 2016–2017, Complaints mechanism administered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law. 
            Submitted to the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Health Council. Submission 87: An individual non-confidential
            submission by Yolande Lucire, PhD, MBBS, DPM
            https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/ComplaintsMechanism/
​            Submissions


2016    Submission to Victorian Royal Commission into Mental Health 
            https://s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/hdp.au.prod.app.vic-rcvmhs.files/6415/742 1/6323/Lucire_Yolande.pdf     
​            
            https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/stories/committees/dcpc/ivsavh/Submissions/6_Dr_Y_Lucire_1_Jul_2011_
            Submission_Redacted.pdf

 
2011    Submission Select Committee on Youth Suicides in the Northern Territory
            https://parliament.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/366408/Sub-No.-16,-Dr-Yolande-Lucire,-Part-1,-30-Sept-2011.pdf

2011    Submission to the Inquiry into the Administration of Health Practitioner Registration by the Australian Health Practitioner
            Regulation Agency (AHPRA). 
2010    Submission to the Special Commission of Inquiry: Acute Care Services in NSW Public Hospitals, Garling Inquiry: 
            Re-focussing Upstream: New Psychiatric Drugs, Genetic Polymorphisms and Public Health. (This was ignored on the basis
            that "The health department does not agree with her.” It was used against her in a case before a committee and ridiculed).
2010    Submission to Senate Suicide Inquiry, The Hidden Toll: Suicide in Australia: Prevalence of Medication-Induced Suicide and
            its Relationship to Demand for Services and Public Health
. 
2009    Report of the Psychiatric Drug Safety Expert Advisory Panel, 24 December. This investigation was conducted on 92 of Dr.
            Lucire's reported cases of suicidal and homicidal akathisia in 2007. This report confirmed causes of the suicide that she
            had been reporting to NSW Medical Board of NSW since 1997, which had been attributed to “standard psychiatric
            practice”, and not investigated.
            https://www.tga.gov.au/alert/release-report-psychiatric-drug-safety-expert-advisory-panel
​

            https://www.tga.gov.au/book/update-tga-response-recommendations-made-psychiatric-drug-safety-expert-advisory-panel

2008    Submission to Commonwealth Minister of Health concerning the implementation of the Deloitte report commissioned by the
            Australian Centre for Health Research, Improving the Quality Use of Medicines in Australia: Realising the Potential of
            Pharmacogenomics
, October. 
            http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/medicines/pdseap-report2009.htm

2008    Submission to Commission of Inquiry: Acute Care Services in NSW Public Hospitals on the prevalence and costs of adverse
            drug reactions to the health service, Focus on psychiatric drugs and Vioxx. 
2007    Review to Improve Transparency of the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
            https://www.tga.gov.au/sites/default/files/review-tga-transparency-1101-submission-yolande-lucire.pdf

2006    Review of inquiry into complaints handling in NSW Health. Submission 11, Dr Yolande Lucire:  
            https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/DBAssets/InquiryS ub mission/Body/47187/sub%2011.pdf

2006    Submission Australian Government Productivity Commission. Mr. Gary Banks, Chair: Impacts of Medical Technology in
            Australia.
   
            http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/medical-technology/submissions/subpr047/ subpr047.pdf.

2002    Submission To Proceedings Before Standing Committee on Law and Justice Inquiry Into 2002 Child Sexual Assault Matters,
            Sydney, 10 May.
2002    Submission to David IPP Inquiry: Review of the Law of Negligence. 
1981    Submission to the Minister and Commission of Inquiry into Social Security Prosecutions: I Fear the Greeks.
2000    Submission to Productivity Commission: Adverse responses to antidepressants and the increase in demand for mental
            health services
. Lucire, Y., FRANZCP, P. M. D., Banks, M. G., & East, C. S. Melbourne, VIC. Submission 47.  
            http://www.pc.gov.au/__data/as sets/pdf_file/0003/17814/subpr047.pdf
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1986    Submission to writers of white paper on workers' compensation in NSW, 1986: Workers' Compensation: A new approach.
            (Unpublished).  

Memberships
Australian Society for Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists (ASCEPT).  
Council member, Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences, 2001- 2010.
Committee Member Australian New Zealand Association of Psychology, Psychiatry and the Law, NSW Branch. 2001-2005.
Fellow of the RANZCP, 1971-2011  Member Forensic Section (now resigned).
International Centre for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP).
Healthy Skepticism (Countering false and misleading advertising by Pharma) http://www.healthyskepticism.org/global/about/us

Internet communities membership
Biojest (Biojest is an invitation-only community dedicated to exposing pharmaceutical industry fraud. It comprises around 200 multidisciplinary professionals dedicated to sharing information and getting drug companies to tell the truth). 
British Medical Journal (BMJ) alerts on Adverse Drug Reactions.
FDA alerts: warnings and advisories and changes to Product Information, weekly.
Pharmalot: now STAT  http://www.pharmalot.com/news
Psych Rights:  http://psychrights.org/index.htm

Other research
SSRI and antipsychotics research.
I receive about 60 informative emails each night as well as digests of new papers put together by Pharmaceutical Company interests. 
I receive Google alerts on akathisia and pharmacogenetics.
I access Medline and Web of Science and communicate with others with similar interests. I have trained a Dutch doctor in USA in forensic pharmacogenetics and she has now completed a PhD.
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