Maree Rose Teesson AC, FAAHMS, FASSA is an Australian expert on mental health. She is the Director of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence in Mental Health and Substance Use (CREMS) and NHMRC Principal Research Fellow at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She is also professorial fellow at the Black Dog Institute, UNSW. She is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAAHMS), and an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA).^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

In recognition of her achievements in education, research and mentoring, Teesson received the 2013 UNSW Faculty of Medicine Dean's Award for Outstanding Achievement.^[6]
Teesson won the University of Technology, Sydney at the Australian Museum's 2014 Eureka Prize for Outstanding Mentor of Young Researchers.^[7] Also in 2014 she was named one of the Australian Financial Review/Westpac "100 Women of Influence" in the Innovation category.^[8]

On Australia Day 2018 she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia "For eminent service to medicine, particularly to the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders, as a researcher and author, to innovative mental health policy development, to education, and as a role model for young researchers".^[1][9]

Teesson holds a BSc (Psychology)(Hons) and PhD (Psychiatry) from the University of New South Wales.^[10] Her 1995 PhD Thesis was "An evaluation of mental health service delivery in an inner city area".^[11]

She is the author of more than 250 publications, and her work has been cited more than 9,000 times.^[1]

Selected publications[edit]

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  Addictions, co-authored with Louisa Degenhardt and Wayne Hall, Hove, 2002, .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
  ISBN 1841693138; 2nd ed. Hove, East Sussex New York Psychology Press, 2012,
  ISBN 9780415582995
  


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  Comorbid Mental Disorders and Substance Use Disorders : Epidemiology, Prevention and Treatment, co-edited with Heather Proudfoot, Dept. of Health and Ageing, 2003,
  ISBN 064282424X
  


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  Proudfoot H, Teesson M, Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing (October 2002). "Who seeks treatment for alcohol dependence? Findings from the Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing". Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 37 (10): 451–6. doi:10.1007/s00127-002-0576-1. PMID 12242622.
  


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  Slade, Tim; Chapman, Cath; Swift, Wendy; Keyes, Katherine; Tonks, Zoe; Teesson, Maree (24 October 2016). "Birth cohort trends in the global epidemiology of alcohol use and alcohol-related harms in men and women: systematic review and metaregression" (PDF). BMJ Open. 6 (10): e011827. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011827.
  


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  Slade, T.; Johnston, A.; Teesson, M.; Whiteford, H.; Burgess, P.; Pirkis, J.; Saw, S (May 2009). "The Mental Health of Australians 2: Substance Use Disorders in Australia" (PDF). Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra.
  

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