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)
Head of the Neuronal Cell Survival Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute and Centre for Ageing, The University of Queensland
Interim Head of School, School Biomedical Science, The University of Queensland
PROFESSOR PAUL ADLARD
Head of the Synaptic Neurobiology Laboratory, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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 SIMON BELL
Professor, Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MICHELE CALLISAYA
Research Fellow, Monash University
Physiotherapist, Peninsula Health
Senior Lecturer, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania
PROFESSOR LYNN CHENOWETH
Professor of Nursing, Centre for Healthy Brain and Ageing, University of NSW
PROFESSOR THOMAS FATH
Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University
Deputy Director of the Dementia Research Centre
PROFESSOR ANNA KING
Professor, Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, University of Tasmania
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR KATE LAVER
ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
PROFESSOR LEE-FAY LOW
Professor in Ageing and Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney
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
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
MRS TARA QUIRKE
Dementia Advocate and carer of a person living with dementia
DR THERESA SCOTT
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 and Principal Research Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ROSIE WATSON
Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine, The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Joint Laboratory Head at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NAWAF YASSI
Consultant Neurologist at The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Joint Laboratory Head at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
DR PAUL YATES
Geriatrician, Austin Health
Honorary Research Fellow, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and the University of Melbourne