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Prof Velandai Srikanth

Director of National Centre for Healthy Ageing; Monash University
Prof Srikanth is the Director, National Centre for Healthy Ageing (ncha.org.au). His program of research spans several aspects of ageing health. These include dementia, cerebrovascular disease, metabolic health and brain ageing, gait and cognitive decline, and frailty and multimorbidity. He has led the development of a large naturalistic cohort of people seeking hospital care in the Healthy Ageing Data Platform of the NCHA, which maximises the use of large structured and unstructured data routinely collected in electronic health records. He actively collaborates in large scale initiatives in the genetics of brain ageing and risk stratification for the secondary prevention of stroke.

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