Our Scientific Panel
The Board of Directors is advised by a group of leading dementia researchers called the Scientific Panel. The Scientific Panel leads the external assessment of the Dementia Grants Program and advises the Board of Directors on the best qualified award recipients.
The current Scientific Panel members are:
PROFESSOR ELIZABETH BEATTIE (co-chair)
Professor of Aged and Dementia Care, School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology
PROFESSOR ELIZABETH COULSON (co-chair)
Head of the Neuronal Cell Survival Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute and Centre for Ageing, The University of Queensland
PROFESSOR SIMON BELL
Professor, Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University
PROFESSOR LYNN CHENOWETH
Professor of Nursing, Centre for Healthy Brain and Ageing, University of NSW
MR IAN GLADSTONE
Consumer representative, living with Younger Onset Dementia.
PROFESSOR YUN-HEE JEON
Susan and Isaac Wakil Professor of Healthy Ageing, Sydney Nursing School, The University of Sydney
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ANNA KING
Associate Professor, Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, the University of Tasmania
PROFESSOR OLIVIER PIGUET
Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology and NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, School of Psychology and Brain & Mind Centre, The University of Sydney
Co-Director, Frontotemporal Dementia Research Group
Director, Memory Program ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders
DR JANE THOMPSON
Consumer Representative, NHMRC National Institute for Dementia Research Board Member
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GIUSEPPE VERDILE
Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University
DR ROSIE WATSON
Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine, The Royal Melbourne Hospital; Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine - The Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne and Principal Research Fellow, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health.