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
Director, Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration (QUT Hub)
Professor Elizabeth Coulson (co-chair)
Professor of Neuroscience and Head of Neuronal Cell Survival Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute, Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research
Head of School, School Biomedical Science, The University of Queensland
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
Professor Thomas Fath
Professor, Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University
Deputy Director of the Dementia Research Centre
Professor Anna King
Associate Director (Research), Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, University of Tasmania
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
Mrs Ann Pietsch
Dementia Advocate and a person living with dementia
Professor Olivier Piguet
NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, The University of Sydney
Director, FRONTIER Frontotemporal Dementia Research Group
President, Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment
President-Elect, International Society for Frontotemporal Dementias
Mrs Tara Quirke
Dementia Advocate and 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
Associate Professor Joanne Ryan
Associate Professor and NHMRC Leadership 1 Fellow
Head of Biological Neuropsychiatry and Dementia Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Dr Theresa Scott
Senior Lecturer in Clinical Geropsychology, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland
Mr Cameron Stewart
Dementia Advocate and a person living with dementia
Associate Professor Giuseppe Verdile
Associate Professor, Curtin Medical School, Curtin University
Associate Professor Paul Yates
Geriatrician, Austin Health
Honorary Research Fellow, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and the University of Melbourne