Consulting Services for Other Professionals

Dr. Gautam has assisted other professional groups in planning and creating Wellness Programs for their staff.

These include groups of:

• nurses
• pharmacists
• pharmaceutical representatives
• lawyers
• judges
• dentists
• business executives

In September 2006, Dr. Gautam was invited to Sydney, Australia to assist in the creation of a Wellness Program for the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

L-R Prof. David Dixon (UNSW), Prof. Jill McKeough (UTS), Dr Mamta Gautam MD,
A/P Prue Vines (UNSW), The Hon. Morris Iemma MP

The UNSW Faculty of Law website featured Managing Mental Wellness in the Legal Profession:

A packed Banco Courtroom at the NSW Supreme Court listened intently as Dr Mamta Gautam MD, a leading Canadian expert on professional health and well being, spoke to lawyers, academics and law students on the topic ‘Towards Managing Mental Wellness in the Legal Profession’.

Research shows that the incidence of depression in the legal profession is around two to four times the rate of the general population, with lawyers the most depressed out of 105 professions surveyed.

The Premier of NSW, the Honourable Morris Iemma MP, launched the lecture which was jointly hosted by the Faculties of Law at UNSW and UTS, in partnership with the Tristan Jepson Memorial Fund, established by George and Marie Jepson in memory of their son, a much-loved law student and lawyer.

Read a Transcript of Dr. Gautam's Address.

Dr. Gautam, with two Australian medical colleagues from DHA

In the University of Technology Sidney on-line article Some call it the 'curse of the gifted', Phil Han wrote: " A leading Canadian psychiatrist, Dr Mamta Gautam spoke to a packed house of lawyers, academics, and most importantly law students, on the significance of understanding how depression affects our lives, and working on that work-life balance we strive to achieve." Read the entire article.

The Australian website, Lawyers Weekly also posted a story highlighting this event by Alex Boxsell, Beating the black dog of law. Read the entire article.

Lawyers Weekly also posted an on-line article entitled Profession Depression by Kate Gibbs. Read the entire article.

The Australian Financial Weekly wrote about Dr. Gautam giving the the inaugural Tristan Jepson Memorial Lecture in Sydney, Australia. Read the entire article.

In a Speech titled, Depression - past, present and future by Professor Geoff Gallop at the launch of Beaton Consulting/beyondblue Annual Professions Survey, Melbourne, 23 April 2007, Professor Gallop makes reference to Dr. Gautam's work. Read the entire speech.

Professor Gallop's article, Black dog isn't really invincible, was also published in The Australian, the country's only national broadsheet newspaper, May 02, 2007, Online Edition. Read the entire article.