Our Scientific Panel
The Board of Directors is advised by a group of eight 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 VELANDAI SRIKANTH (Chair)
Professor in the Department of Medicine at Monash University (Southern Clinical School, Monash Medical Centre, MMC)
Head of the Stroke and Ageing Research Group
DR JANE THOMPSON
Consumer Representative, NHMRC National Institute for Dementia Research Board Member
PROFESSOR ELIZABETH COULSON
Head of the Neuronal Cell Survival Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute and Centre for Ageing, The University of Queensland
DR ROSIE WATSON
Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine and Aged Care, The Royal Melbourne Hospital and The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Senior Lecturer (Honorary), The Department of Medicine, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne and The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GIUSEPPE VERDILE
Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University
PROFESSOR LYNN CHENOWETH
Professor of Nursing, Centre for Healthy Brain and Ageing, University of NSW
PROFESSOR LINDY CLEMSON
Professor in Ageing and Occupational Therapy, Convenor of Ageing, Work & Health Research Unit, NHMRC Career Development Research Fellow, Teamleader of Ageing, Participation & Safety Research Team, The University of Sydney
PROFESSOR WENDY MOYLE
Program Director of Optimising Health Outcomes in the Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University
PROFESSOR YUN-HEE JEON
Susan and Isaac Wakil Professor of Healthy Ageing, Sydney Nursing School, The University of Sydney
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
PROFESSOR ELIZABETH BEATTIE
Professor of Aged and Dementia Care, School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SIMON BELL
Associate Professor, Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University