Professor Graham Martin is an active clinical leader and academic in child and adolescent mental health and currently holds a joint appointment as Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The University of Queensland, and Clinical Director, Royal Children’s Hospital and Health Service District, Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS). 

From 1986 to 2001 he was Executive Director of Southern Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Adelaide, and claims to be primarily a clinician and only latterly a researcher, writer and commentator.  Twenty-five years of clinical immersion in systemic practice, family therapy teaching, and clinician supervision now underpins the development of preventive programs in mental illness, and programs for the promotion of mental health in families, communities, schools, the defence force cadets and other systems.