Gregory de Moore
Conference Presentations and Speaking Engagements
Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation (TJMF)
Co-presenter, Annual Lecture
Federal Court, Macquarie Street, Sydney
(upcoming in October 2017)
The Discovery of Lithium – a magical tale
Williamstown Literary Festival
Williamstown Town Hall
17 June 2017
The story of mental illness: Tom Wills and the legacy of life
Presentation to Ernst and Young, and business partners
Exhibition Street, Melbourne
24 May 2017
RANZCP National Conference
Adelaide, 2 May 2017
John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder
UNSW Scienta
Neuropsychiatry conference
18 March 2017
Psychogenic Movement Disorders
Melbourne Cricket Club
26 December 2016
Sesquicentenary of Tom Wills and the aboriginal cricket team
Boxing Day Breakfast Interview with Damien Fleming
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Cricket Australia
13 December 2016
Inaugural Mullagh-Wills Oration
Tom Wills and the Indigenous Cricket team of 1866
Co-orator with Mick Dodson
Literary Event
Melbourne University Alumni function
17 November 2016
Panel discussion
Finding Sanity: John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder.
Opening of the Carrington Inn and Tom Wills Tavern
A celebration of the birth of Tom Wills
Bungendore, ACT
Unveiling of Artwork and announcement of Mullagh-Wills oration to celebrate the aboriginal cricket team of 1866-1868
Melbourne Cricket Ground
With James Sutherland CEO of the MCC, Fiona Clark (artist) and Greg de Moore (Mullagh-Wills oration)
20 October 2016
Gleebooks, Glebe, ‘In Conversation’, Interviewer – Robyn Williams
Sydney, 18 October 2016
Finding Sanity: John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder.
Author Talk
14 October 2016
Ashfield Library
Mental Health Week
Finding Sanity: John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder.
Presentation to celebrate the refurbishment of the Tom Wills gravesite
Crowd funding donor function
North Fitzroy Arms Hotel
15 September 2016
27 May 2016
Marngrook Football Round
Indigenous Celebration of Australian Rules football
Sydney Cricket Ground
‘Tom Wills grows up amongst aboriginal Australians’
20 January 2016
Jack Marsh History Lecture
Sydney Cricket Ground
(The lecture was recorded for YouTube; a synopsis of the lecture was printed and distributed to SCG members
The YouTube Lectures
3 May 2015
Bradman and International Cricket Museum
Bowral
Opening of a new interactive exhibition and edited video documentary on Tom Wills and the Aboriginal Cricket team.
25-27 March 2015
International Cricket World Cup Conference
Luna Park, Sydney
Cricketers and Suicide – a historical perspective
12 January 2015
Australian Country Cricket Championship Dinner
The Foundry, Bendigo, Victoria.
‘Tom Wills and the aboriginal cricket team’
24 September 2014
Invited Luncheon Speaker for White Ribbon Charity Luncheon
St Kilda, Melbourne
1 July 2014
Key Note Speaker, Plenary Session
‘Cricket, Alcohol and Mental Health: A history & Workshop’
High Performance Centre
Cricket Australia, Brisbane
14 June 2014
Mental Health, the adolescent brain and mental illness
Rotary Youth Programme of Enrichment (RYPEN)
Motivating Youth and Mental Health, Springwood
30 April 2014
‘Masterclass in Neuropsychiatry: Borderlands between Mind and Movement.
A series of case presentations.
A/P Fung, A/P de Moore, Dr Peppard and Prof Starkstein.
The Sydney Mint Café
6 October 2013
Festival of Ideas
The Brain and Mind for a Healthy Society
Evening, Saturday 5 October
The Brain Centre, University of Melbourne
While Scholar in Residence, Trinity College
19 June 2013
National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne
Question and Answer session
After the showing of the Tom Wills video documentary
23 May 2013
St Joseph’s Secondary School
Hunters Hill, Sydney
Breakfast Forum: ‘Books and Blokes’
6 May 2013
Launch of the ‘Tom Wills’ Oval, Sydney Olympic Park
Presentation ceremony along with NSW Minister for Sport and CEO of the AFL.
Invited guest speaker
22 March 2013
Royal Adelaide Golf Club
Charity luncheon for Quadriplegia and Paraplegia, South Australia (PARAQUAD SA)
Invited Luncheon speaker
21 November 2012
Symposium, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute,
University House, Melbourne University
On the occasion of the opening of the new WEHI building
Invited Dinner Speaker: ‘from science to writing’.
22 October 2012
Special Dinner Guest Speaker
Fundraising Event for Western Suicide Prevention Initiative
Richmond, Windsor and North Richmond Rotary Clubs
Richard Rotary Club.NSW
6 October 2012, 18 May 2013
Mental Health and the adolescent brain
Rotary Youth Programme of Enrichment (RYPEN)
Motivating Youth and Mental Health, Springwood
24-27 September 2012
Creating Futures Conference, Holiday Inn,
Port Moresby, PNG
Topic: Somatic presentations of psychiatric illness
30 August 2012
Guest Speaker
Tom Wills, the Grampians and aboriginal Australia
Clayfield Wines Dinner
Docklands, Melbourne
26 August 2012
The Aboriginal Cricket Team: Australia’s first international sports team
Bradman Museum
Bowral, NSW
29 June 2012
Inaugural South Australian RANZCP Branch Annual Dinner and Awards Evening
Guest After-Dinner Speaker: Sport, Alcohol and Australian History.
Venue: Adelaide Oval, S.A.
6 June 2012
Guest Speaker
Launch of community initiative information pack on suicide prevention.
Hawkesbury Function Centre at Clarendon, NSW
Western Sydney Suicide Prevention and Support Group.
18 May 2012
Battle of the West
Charity Sportsmen’s Lunch
The Ivy, George Street, Sydney
10 March 2012
Long Weekend Celebration of the First Cricket Team: An Indigenous XI
Harrow, Victoria
After-dinner speaker: The First Cricket XI
19 November 2011
Australian Custodial Health Medical Officers Conference2011
Dinner presentation
Mental Health, the Law and nineteenth century Australia
11 November 2011
Mental Health Consultation Liaison Nurses’ Association of NSW & ACT 11th Annual Conference
Dinner presentation, Sydney Harbour View Hotel
The role of narrative in exploring alcohol abuse and self-harm.
10 October 2011
Geelong Business Club
Geelong Football Club, Victoria
Topic: From 1858 to GWS
9-10 September 2011
Australasian Medical Writers’ Association Conference
North Sydney
Topic: A busy man’s guide to writing
2-3 April 2011
Neuropsychiatry: unusual psychiatric clinical stories
Australian and New Zealand Advanced Neurology Trainees’ Weekend
Rendezvous Hotel, Melbourne
27-29 October 2010
HIMAA National Conference
Invited Speaker
Darling Harbour, Sydney
The role of medical record keeping – destruction, historical and scientific uses.
This presentation was awarded first prize $1500 as the audience-rated best presentation of the conference.
29 August-3 September 2010
46th Annual Papua New Guinea Medical Symposium
Wewak, PNG
Invited Speaker:
The role of psychiatry in a general hospital.
An outline of training offered to PNG psychiatric registrars when rotated to western Sydney.
30 July 2010
AstraZeneca
Postgraduate Weekend
ANZ Neuroscience Conference
Sydney
Psychiatry and writing biography
25 June 2010
Celebrity Sports Luncheon
Southport Club
Goldcoast
Sport, Australian History and Tom Wills
3, 4 June 2010
Sustain the Momentum: embedding dual diagnosis practice in organisations
Victorian Dual Diagnosis Initiative
Mantra Erskine Beach Resort, Lorne, Victoria
After dinner speaker: Alcohol, Sport and Australian History
23 May 2010
Sydney Writers’ Festival: Personal journeys in writing.
Sydney, NSW
April 2010
Graduation Address to Science students
University of Western Sydney
25 September 2009
Vingt Cinq Grand Final Lunch
Sofitel Hotel
Tom Wills and Australian Rules Football
14 August 2009
RANZCP NSW Branch
Annual Dinner and Cultural Soiree
Guest Dinner Speaker
May 26, 2009
Public Lecture at the State Library of South Australia
‘Tom Wills’
Venue: Mortlock Chambers, State Library of SA
May 26, 2009
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Annual Congress
Title: ‘The suicide of Thomas Wentworth Wills’
Venue: Adelaide Convention Centre
August 15, 2008
NSWAFL The origins of Australian Rules Football. Panel discussion: Greg de Moore, Rhys Muldoon, Rick Quade, John Harms with Craig Davis as moderator.
Club Swans, Darlinghurst.
August 8, 2008
Melbourne Football Club President’s luncheon, Olympic Room, talk on biography on Tom Wills.
August 6, 2008
Book Launch of A National Game,
Victoria University.
July 15, 2008.
Title of conference: 150 Years of Australian Football.
Victoria University Conference Centre, Flinders Street, Melbourne.
Title of talk: The decline of Wills, and how his suicide may have shaped his legacy.
July 10, 2008, Media and Book launch of Tom Wills: His Spectacular Rise and Tragic Fall.
National Sports Museum, MCG. Book launched by Melbourne Football Club Chairman, Jim Stynes.
October 17, 2006, Invited Speaker, Advancing Parkinson’s, Concord Hospital
NSW Parkinson’s Association
Topic: Managing Psychiatric Disturbances in Parkinson’s Disease.
September 6, 2006, Invited Speaker, Public Lecture, NSW State Parliament Theatrette,
Advancing Parkinson’s Seminar.
Topic: Mood Disorders and Psychosis in Parkinson’s Disease.
September 4, 2006, Invited Speaker, Public Lecture, Melbourne, Victoria
The Life of Tom Wills.
Melbourne Cricket Ground.
June 16 –23, 2006, 3rd Westmead Vanuatu Conference
Port Villa, Vanuatu
The Health Burden of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Emergencies
June 7, 2006, Dystonia Australia Conference
Westmead Hospital, NSW
Invited speaker: Psychosocial Sequelae of Dystonia
February 25, 2006, Pfizer Neuroscience Symposium
Canberra, Hyatt Hotel, ACT
Invited Speaker: Psychogenic Disorders in Neurology
December, 2004, Understanding Suicide
Mental Health Review Tribunal,
Gladesville Hospital
July 2, 2004, Victoria University
Footy Fever Conference
Title: ‘The nicest man I ever met’:
Tom Wills and the evolution of Australian football
Morganstein L, Oyebode F, Haque S and de Moore GM. Suicide Rates and the Olympic Games: can an International Sporting Event influence the suicide rate of the hosting country? The Royal College of Psychiatry, Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry, Annual Conference 4th-6th February 2004, Abstract Book, p. 14.
November 8, 2003, University of NSW
Australian Society for Sports History, Sydney Chapter
‘Rugby, History and the Remaking of the Class Game.’
Title: The Tree of Life.
Tom Wills, Rugby School and the evolution of Australian rules football.
Poster presentation for Australian Gastroenterology meeting
Cairns, Australia,
Abstract in Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2003) 18(supp) B5
Cyclical hyperemesis in association with cannabis abuse
JH Allen, JC Twartz, GM de Moore, R Heddle
July 3, 2003, Australian Catholic University
Australian Society of Sports History Conference XIV
Title: Cricketers, Soft Brains and Suicide.
2002, NSW Parkinson’s Disease Conference
Concord Hospital, NSW
Invited Speaker: Psychosis and Depression in Parkinson’s Disease
July 1999, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Conference: Sport and Social Justice
Title of Talk: “Tom Wills: The Death of a Nineteenth-Century Hero”.
June 1997, World Congress of Dermatology
Sydney, Australia
Poster - The psychological aspects of facial kaposi’s sarcoma.
May 1997, Sydney, Australia, Consultation liaison psychiatry conference
Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry Congress
The psychological aspects of facial kaposi’s sarcoma.
March 1997, Adelaide, Australia
International Association for Suicide Prevention
Presentation 1. A comparison of the survivors of shooting and jumping.
Presentation 2. The 18 year follow up of 237 patients with deliberate self-harm.
May 1995, National Congress Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Inaugural National Consultation Liaison conference
Title: The clinical profile of survivors of violent self-harm
Port Douglas, Queensland.
March 1995, International Symposium on the role of botulinum toxin.
Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Psychogenic movement disorders.
November 1994, Japanese Society for General Hospital Psychiatry.
Morioka, Japan. The role of the consultation liaison psychiatrist in assessment of violent suicide attempts. Abstract published in the Japanese Journal of General Hospital Psychiatry.
February 1994, Public Health Association
Suicide Prevention - an examination of firearms as a means of attempted suicide.
Canberra, Australia.
September 1993, The clinical profile of survivors of self-shooting.
Second Sydney consultation liaison psychiatry conference, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital,
Sydney, Australia.
July 1993,
Invited speaker
Psychiatric aspects of dermatological disorders.
Roche symposium, Hyatt Hotel, Sydney, Australia.
July 1993, Second National conference on violence.
Canberra, Australia, Institute of Criminology.
Debate on firearms use and legislation.
REFEREES:
Professor Philip Boyce
Academic Head, University of Sydney
Westmead Hospital
Westmead NSW 2145
AUSTRALIA
Professor Carlos Zubaran
University of Western Sydney
Department of Psychiatry
Blacktown Hospital
Blacktown NSW
AUSTRALIA
Emeritus Professor
Russell Meares
Mental Health Sciences Building
Cumberland Hospital
Parramatta NSW 2124
September 21, 2017