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Expert panel – A/Prof Michael Woodward, Dr Rebecca Moore, Prof Bruce Brew, facilitated by Dr Stephanie Daly

Dr Stephanie Daly is a GP and Founder of Sensus Cognition in Adelaide. She works as a GP Educator for a national training body – Dementia Training Australia – who deliver Dementia focused education for nurses, allied health professionals and medical professionals across Australia.
She is also recording her first podcast series – Dementia in Practice – covering a wide range of topics within the sphere of Cognitive Impairment.

A/Prof Michael Woodward AM is a Geriatrician with a passion for health promotion in older people, including vaccine-preventable diseases. He is Director of Aged Care Research at Austin Health and has conducted several trials of vaccines.
He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Immunization Coalition and has written the Position Paper on Immunization of older people for the Australian and New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine. In 2016 he received Membership of the Order of Australia for his work in geriatric medicine and his communication to professionals.

Dr Rebecca Moore is a GP in Newcastle with a special interest in geriatrics and dementia. She is the currently working through the final stages of a Masters of Dementia, through the Wicking Research and Education Centre, University of Tasmania.

Prof Bruce Brew is a senior staff specialist neurologist St Vincent’s Hospital, Professor of Medicine (Neurology) University of New South Wales and University of Notre Dame, Director of the Peter Duncan Neurosciences Unit and Neurosciences Program St Vincent’s Centre for Applied Medical Research. He has expertise in dementia at both basic science and clinical levels (PI of trials in Alzheimer’s > 25y; >430 papers and 4 books and > 25,000-38,000 citations; H index 85-99 (Scopus-Google Scholar). He has been on numerous international scientific committees, journal editorial boards, grant reviewer (NIH, NHMRC, MRFF, funding bodies in UK, Switzerland, Germany, South Africa). In 2015 he was awarded an Order of Australia for his services to Neurology.

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