Biography

Dr Shalini Arunogiri is a consultant addiction psychiatrist. She is Deputy Clinical Director at Turning Point, Melbourne, and a Senior Research Fellow at Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University. Shalini is Chair of the RANZCP Binational Faculty of Addiction Psychiatry. Her clinical and research interests include women’s health and addictive disorders, and treatment of co-existing trauma and substance use.  Dr Arunogiri is the recipient of an  Australian NH&MRC Emerging Leader Fellowship, and is an investigator on multiple Australian clinical trials of medication treatments for addiction. She is also mum to an energetic six year-old boy and a passionate advocate for women in medicine and academia.