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.
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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.
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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
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.
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.
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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.
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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
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.
