Monthly Webinar's
July 16th, 2026
7:00 - 8:30 PM AEST
The Collaborative Centre for Cardiometabolic Health in Psychosis (ccCHiP) has been at the forefront of providing integrative health services for people with enduring psychotic illnesses for nearly 2 decades. It has developed an innovative service delivery model and accompanying bespoke medical informatics system that remains unique in Australasia. ccCHiP is an interdisciplinary, one-stop-shop service where at-risk individuals are seen by multiple clinicians in a single session. These include GP/Psychiatrist (providing pharmacological and general medicine services,) Cardiologist, Endocrinologist (diabetes focus), Dietitian, Exercise physiologist, Sleep/OSA CNC, and Oral health team. ccCHiP has a broad clinical research portfolio, including services research examining how - for example - the core elements of allied heath assessment can be formulated for use by non-experts caring for psychosis patients in order to facilitate integrative heath precepts. This talk will cover the structure of services, some of the broad outcomes that have been achieved, briefly address some of the pharmacology associated with cardiometabolic risk, and present some of the strategies used by the team that may be of use to others contemplating developing services for one of society’s most disadvantaged patient cohorts.
CPD Home approved for 2 CPD hours (including post-reading).
Speaker
Professor Tim Lambert
Tim Lambert is (conjoint) Professor of Psychiatry Concord Hospital, Sydney Local Health District in NSW & University of Sydney. He is the clinical and academic director of the Collaborative Centre for Cardiometabolic Health in Psychosis (ccCHiP). He held the Chair of Psychiatry at the Concord Medical School of the University of Sydney from 2007 to 2023.
Professor Lambert has spent 25+ years researching, teaching, and providing clinical services in the area of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, with a particular emphasis on treatments and outcomes. His recent focus has been the development of integrated models of care for chronic multi-system comorbidity in persons with enduring psychotic disorders.
He has been a principal in the development of a number of clinical practice guidelines, algorithms, and consensus documents (Diabetes and Antipsychotics; RANZCP CPG for schizophrenia; Treatment Refractory and Clozapine Consensus Guidelines, RANZCP guidelines for physical comorbidity in psychotic disorders, for example).
Chairing
Peta Tauchmann
Peta Tauchmann has worked as a diabetes educator since 1998 and is the founder of Brisbane Diabetes Education Services. She works as a Credentialled Diabetes Educator and Nurse Practitioner offering support for diabetes self-management and education, consulting services, health professional education and is a lecturing team for University Technology Sydney’s Graduate Certificate of Diabetes Education and Management.