Professor Jayashri Kulkarni AM graduated in Medicine from Monash University in 1981 and became a Fellow of the College of Psychiatrists in 1988, commencing her appointment as Professor of Psychiatry at The Alfred and Monash University in 2002.

Professor Kulkarni founded and serves as the director of two research centres, the Multidisciplinary Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc) and partner site HER Centre Australia, and also serves as Head of the Department of Psychiatry for the Monash University Central Clinical School. She also developed and launched Australia’s first women’s mental health hospital at Cabrini Health in September 2021, and was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) in 2019 for her services to Psychiatry.

Professor Kulkarni has conducted ground-breaking clinical research and is internationally acknowledged as a leader and expert in the field of Women’s Mental Health, particularly for her innovative work on reproductive hormones and mental illness. Her world-first research in hormones and mental health has led to the development of new treatments for women with mental ill health.