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Dementia Australia Research Foundation Scientific Panel

  • Professor Anna King (co-chair)

    Associate Director (Research), Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, University of Tasmania.

  • Professor Joanne Ryan (co-chair)

    Associate Professor and NHMRC Leadership 1 Fellow.

    Head of Biological Neuropsychiatry and Dementia Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University.

  • Professor Meera Agar

    Professor of Palliative Medicine, University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

    Director of Centre for Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation (IMPACCT).

    Senior palliative care physician and research lead for South West Sydney Local Health District Palliative Care Service.

  • Photo - Professor Scott Ayton
    Professor Scott Ayton

    Head of Dementia Research, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health.

    Head of the Translational Neurodegeneration Laboratory, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health.

    Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Enhanced Dementia Diagnosis.

    Chief Scientific Officer, PanAscea. 

  • Photo - Associate Professor Lyndsey Collins-Praino
    Associate Professor Lyndsey Collins-Praino

    Associate Professor and Research Lead, School of Biomedicine, The University of Adelaide. 

    Head of the Cognition, Ageing and Neurodegenerative Research Laboratory (CANDL), School of Biomedicine, The University of Adelaide. 

  • Photo - Associate Professor Eleanor Drummond
    Associate Professor Eleanor Drummond

    Associate Professor and Bluesand Principal Research Fellow, School of Medical Sciences and Brain & Mind Centre, University of Sydney. 

  • Professor Thomas Fath

    Professor, Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University.

    Deputy Director of the Dementia Research Centre.

  • Photo - Associate Professor Anita Goh
    Associate Professor Anita Goh

    Clinical Neuropsychologist.

    Director Social Gerontology & Principal Research Fellow at the National Ageing Research Institute.

  • Photo - Associate Professor Ramon Landin-Romero
    Associate Professor Ramon Landin-Romero

    NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow. 

    Head of Neuroimaging at FRONTIER Frontotemporal Dementia Research Group, School of Health Sciences and Brain & Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney.
     

  • Professor Kate Laver

    ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University.

  • Associate Professor Margaret MacAndrew

    Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology.

  • Adjunct Professor Kathryn Moyle

    Dementia Advocate and carer of a person living with dementia.

  • Photo - Professor Tuan Nguyen
    Professor Tuan Nguyen

    Research Professor, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology.

    Principal Research Fellow, Social Gerontology Division, National Ageing Research Institute.

    Adjunct Associate Research Professor, Clinical & Health Sciences, University of South Australia.

    Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin.

    Programs Chair, Health Policy PIA Executive Committee, International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment.

     

  • Mrs Ann Pietsch

    Dementia Advocate and a person living with dementia.

  • Mrs Tara Quirke

    Dementia Advocate and former carer of a person living with dementia.

  • Associate Professor Stephanie Rainey-Smith

    NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow.

    Research Leader – Lifestyle Approaches Towards Cognitive Health (LATCH) Research Group.

    Associate Professor at the Centre for Healthy Ageing, Murdoch University.

  • Dr Theresa Scott

    Senior Lecturer in Clinical Geropsychology, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland.

  • Portrait of Dr Ashleigh Smith
    Associate Professor Ashleigh Smith

    Associate Professor, Deputy Director: Alliance for Research in Exercise Nutrition and Activity (ARENA) Research Centre, University of South Australia.

  • Photo - Professor Lily Xiao
    Professor Lily Xiao

    Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University.

  • Photo - Associate Professor Paul Yates
    Associate Professor Paul Yates

    Geriatrician with Austin Health, Deputy Director of Aged Care Research and Medical Lead for the Residential InReach Program. 

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Last updated
23 September 2025