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| Professor Henry Brodaty AO
School of Psychiatry - Dementia Collaborative Research CentreStatement of Interests:
1)Dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease: a) how to improve its detection by General Practitioners; b) the effects on family carers and on how best to help them; c) trials of new drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease; d) ways to improve quality of life in people with dementia and e) reduce behavioural and psychiatric complications. 2) Nursing homes: In Australia there are about 75,000 nursing home beds for which the total budget exceeds $2 billion per annum. Over two thirds of nursing home residents have dementia and they exhibit high rates of behavioural disturbances which are distressing to themselves, their families and the staff. We have been conducting a trial of different models of care to help these residents and also been investigating the use of new drugs for the treatment of agitation and psychosis in nursing homes. 3) What predicts cognitive decline in older people? We are conducting a population based study of >1000 older people to discover what are risk and protective factors.
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| Associate Professor Gideon Caplan
Prince of Wales Clinical School - Department of MedicineStatement of Interests:
The delivery of acute health services has potential benefits and side effects of an order of magnitude greater than most pharmaceutical agents, yet are rarely vigorously studied. It may be possible to manipulate these effects by, for example, the substitution for care in the hospital with care at home, during the acute or post acute phases. This would bring benefits for health outcomes, patient satisfaction and costs to the health system which need to be defined. Delirium is the most common problem bedevilling older people in hospital. Yet little is understood about the basic pathophysiology of delirium. Using a multidisciplinary, bedside to lab bench approach, we hope to unlock the mystery of delirium.
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| Professor Daniel Chan
South Western Sydney Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
Daniel KY Chan is a senior staff specialist and director of Aged Care and Rehabilitation at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital. He is also a conjoint Professor of Geriatrics at the University of New South Wales and an adjunct Professor at the University of Western Sydney. He has qualifications in clinical practice (FRACP, FHKCP), research (MD) and health service management (MHA, AFCHSE). He has been involved with many molecular biology, epidemiologyical, Parkinson's disease, stroke and health service related research. He has had 90 + publications in journals, about two-fifth of these as first author. Many are internationally reputable journals, some highly prestigious. Some of the best journals include New England Journal of Medicine (Impact Factor (IF 44.02, first author) , the top journals in neurology: “Neurology” (IF 5.973, first author), “Archives of Neurology” (IF: 4.835, three papers, first author once and second author once); “Annals of Neurology” (IF: 8.097, co-author), “Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry” (IF: 3.11, first author) as well as top journals in Geriatrics: “Journal of the American Geriatric Society” (IF: 3.361, most senior author), “Journals of Gerontology” (IF 4.122, first author) and “Age & Ageing” (IF: 1.646, three papers, once first author and twice second author). He is also actively involved in the research area of stroke with publications in reputable journals: including JAGS (IF 3.361), Acta Neurologica Scandinavica (IF 1.712), Neuroepidemiology (IF 1.758) and Medical Journal of Australia (IF 2.0) (Publication list no 6,9,10,15,30,35). He has published a position statement - “Dysphagia and aspiration in older people” on the website on behalf of the Australian Society for Geriatrics Medicine (Publication list no 18). He has been successful in securing in excess of $2million from various competitive grants in recent years. Sources of grants include: NHMRC (ID 510275, CIA; ID 358372, CIF), Hong Kong Research Council; New South Wales Health Department; Pathway Home for elderly(Commonwealth); Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care (Commonwealth); Royal Australasian College of Physicians (mostly as first applicant.
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| Associate Professor Jacqueline Close
Prince of Wales Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
Falls and fracture prevention in older people through: a)the systematic identification of risk factors b)the testing of interventions through RCTs c)application of the evidence in the routine clinical setting
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| Emeritus Professor Fred Ehrlich
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
The impact of potential secondary gain on the prospects of rehabilitation and the display of signs of malingering or the adoption of abnormal illness behaviour preventing accurate assesssment of the purely physical components of disability.
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| Associate Professor Peter Gonski
St George Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
In aged care,clinical review of various geriatric syndromes and their management are of particular interest.Hospital admission and discharge outcomes are also being studied.
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| Associate Professor Robert Griew
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
In the field of Aboriginal health, the population health and health service development strategies that are required to make substantive progress toward closing the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal health outcomes. This includes specific interests in the areas of maternal and child health, early childhood development, youth wellbeing and resilience and the management of metabolic and criculatory illness in adutls. A secondary interest in the HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C epidemics in Australia.
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| Ms Karen Mather
School of PsychiatryStatement of Interests:
The main research focus is to gain a better understanding of the genetic and environmental factors involved in ageing and age-related disease. The genetic factors that may be involved include variation at the nucleotide level, epigenetic variation, epistasis and gene-environmental interactions. Current research is being undertaken using large population cohorts of older Australians and examining the genetic variation and environmental factors associated with ageing phenotypes.
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| Dr Litsa Morfis
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
The study of vascular diseases and their impact on cognitive decline in the elderly.
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| Dr Bin Ong
South Western Sydney Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
Main interests are in - Geriatric Medicine - Thromboembolic diseases - Models of care including hospital in the home, ambulatory care and medical assessment units.
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| Dr Ros Poulos
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Current research projects are in the area of injury prevention and the translation of research into policy and practice.
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| Dr Tuly Rosenfeld
Prince of Wales Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
Emergency departments and the elderly; medications in the elderly; speech and nutrition in the elderly; swallowing disorders. Pre and Post Acute Care of Older People Pharmacy and Ageing
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| Dr George Stathers
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
In the field of dementia and frail aged care interests include defining algorisms to enhance outcomes involving residential-community-interface questions.This involves defining problems in terms of premorbid functioning and prevention as well as developed dementia and frailty profiles.
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| Dr Adrienne Withall
School of Psychiatry - Dementia Collaborative Research CentreStatement of Interests:
Currently my focus is on younger people with dementia and their carers. My other interests include the mental health of older persons, positive and successful ageing, cognitive function and its role in predicting recovery from mental illness, mild cognitive impairment and the dementias and the psychiatric sequelae of stroke.
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