Gillinder Bedi

Dr. Gillinder Bedi is a Senior Research Fellow at Orygen and the University of Melbourne and a clinical psychologist. She joined Orygen in 2017 to lead the development of a substance use research program.

Gill completed graduate training in clinical psychology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, investigating cognitive function and mood in ecstasy and cannabis users. Her postdoctoral research, which focused on characterizing the acute effects of MDMA (ecstasy) in humans, was undertaken at the University of Chicago. From 2009 until 2017, she was a faculty member in the Division on Substance Use Disorders at Columbia University Medical Center/New York State Psychiatric Institute in NYC.