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Clinical research

Name Contact details Areas of expertise
Dr Michael Barnett
Neurologist		 T: +61 2 9114 4018
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  • Neurology
  • Multiple Sclerosis
A/Prof Renee Bittoun
Director, Smoking Research Unit		 T: +61 2 9351 0817
E:
  • Smoking cessation
Prof Stewart Einfeld, Chair of Mental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences
Senior Scientist 
 T: +61 2 9351 0884
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  • Developmental Psychiatry
  • Autism
  • Intellectual disability
Dr Adam Guastella
Clinical Psychologist		 T: +61 2 9351 0539
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  • Anxiety
Prof Ian Hickie
Executive Director, BMRI Professor of Psychiatry		 T: +61 2 9351 0810
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  • Substance use and psychosis
  • Youth mental health
Dr Daniel Hermens, Coordinator, Youth Mental Health Program
 T: +61 2 9351 0529
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  • Youth mental health
  • Substance abuse
Prof Tim Lambert
Director, Schizophrenia Research Group		 T: +61 2 9351 0721
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  • Treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis
  • Physical health in those with mental health problems
  • Problems of adherence
  • Treatment resistance
Dr Simon Lewis
Neurologist
Director, Parkinson's Disease Research Clinic. Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience		 T: +61 2 9351 0672
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  • Parkinson's disease
  • Dementia
  • Functional neuroimaging
A/Prof Sharon Naismith
Head, Clinical Research Unit Clinical Neuropsychologist		 T: +61 2 9351 0781
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  • Clinical neuropsychology
A/Prof Naomi Rogers
Director, Chronobiology & Sleep Research Group		 T: +61 2 9351 0892
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  • Chronobiology
  • Sleep / Sleep Loss
  • Circadian disruption
Dr Elizabeth Scott
Director, The Clinical Centre		 T: +61 2 9351 0672
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  • General enquiries
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Basic science research

Name Contact details Areas of expertise
A/Prof Patricia Armati,
Co-Director & Vice President, Nerve Research Foundation

 T: +61 2 9351 2062
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  • Chronic and acute pain
Dr Elena Bagley,
Senior Research Fellow, Synaptic Physiology & Plasticity laboratory
T: +61 2 9351 0880
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  • Synaptic plasticity to environment
  • Effects of chronic drug use on the brain
Professor Bernard Balleine
Director, Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory
T: +61 2 9114 4011
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  • Learning and motivational processes
Prof Richard Banati
Head, Pharmacology, Neurobiology and Psychiatry Laboratory		 T: +61 2 9351 0725
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  • Pharmacology
  • Neurobiology
  • Psychiatry research
Prof Tom Becker, Head, Becker Group
 T: +61 2 9351 0997
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  • Genetic disease
  • Genetic risk factor
  • Developmental disorder
Dr Daniel Brown
Head, Neuro-Otology Laboratory
T: +61 2 9351 0748
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  • Ménière’s disease
Prof MacDonald Christie
Director, Pain Management Laboratory		 T: +61 2 9351 0899
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  • Pain management

Dr Claire Goldsbury, Senior Research Fellow, Alzheimer’s Disease Cell Biology Laboratory 

T: +61 2 9351 0878
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  • Alzheimer's disease
Prof Jürgen Götz
Director, Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Disease Laboratory		 T: +61 2 9351 0799
E:
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Frontotemporal dementia
Prof Manuel Graeber,
Barnet-Cropper Chair of Brain Tumour Research
T: +61 2 9114 4008
E:
  • Glioblastoma treatments
  • Synaptic plasticity
Prof Simon Hawke
Director, Prion Disease Laboratory
Director, National Multiple Sclerosis Brain Bank		 T: +61 2 9351 0846
E:
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Prion diseases such as CJD and mad cow disease (BSE)
  • Virus infections of the brain
  • Neurodegeneration
Dr Damian Holsinger
Head, Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience

T: +61 2 9351 9324
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  • Alzheimer's disease
Dr Lars Matthias Ittner, Group Leader, Laboratory for Translational Neurodegeneration
T: +61 2 9351 0845
E:
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Frontotemporal dementia
A/Prof Michael Kassiou
Head, Drug Discovery Research Unit		 T: +61 2 9351 0849
E:
  • Drug discovery
  • Designing new drugs for the treatment of brain disease
Prof Steven Meikle
Head, Imaging Physics Laboratory		 T: +61 2 9351 0847
E:
  • Medical imaging and medical imaging physics
  • Positron emission tomography (PET)
  • Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
  • Nuclear medicine
Emeritus Professor John D Pollard AO,
Scientific Director, Neuroinflammation Laboratory

 T: +61 2 9351 3385
E: jdpoll@med.usyd.edu.au
  • Neurodegenerative diseases
  • Multiple Sclerosis
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