Appendix C: Postgraduate Students

Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, Neurology, NeuroPsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatry Research – Neuroimaging, The Journal of Psychosomatic Research, The Medical Journal of Australia, Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease • Associate Editor for Journal Intellectual & Developmental Disability • Editorial Board of Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities Journal • Reviewer for the following funding bodies: NHMRC, Australia Research Council, Alzheimer’s Australia, Alzheimer’s USA, Welcome Trust, Neuroscience Research Grants, Pfizer, Rotary Health Foundation, The Dunhill Medical Trust • Reviewer & Contributor for the following bodies policy documents: NSW Health; NSW Health, The NSW Strategic Framework and Workforce Plan for Mental Health 2018-2022; NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation; Clinical Care of People who might be Suicidal Education and Training Initiative (COPSETI); Podcasts 2017; Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) • Expert Consultant for Mental

Health Regulation 2019 • Expert Consultant on the Royal

Commission into Violence, Abuse,

Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability

CURRENT

Toyin Abdulsalam

Scientia PhD student Bioinformatics using multi-omics data integration strategies to predict age-related phenotypes and longevity School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Dr Karen Mather, Dr Anbu Thalamuthu, Dr Anne Poljak, Prof Marc Wilkins (School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences)

Andrew Affleck

PhD student Effects of anti-hypertensive medications on Alzheimer and cerebrovascular disease brain pathology School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Prof Glenda Halliday (USyd)

Abdullah Alqarni

PhD student Sex differences in white matter hyperintensities School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: A/Prof Wei Wen, Dr Jiyang Jiang, Prof Perminder Sachdev

Russell Chander

Scientia PhD student Social cognition in the older adult lifespan School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Prof Julie Henry (UQ)

Xi (Sophie) Chen

PhD student The relationship between dietary patterns and cognitive health among older adults School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Henry Brodaty, Dr Fiona O‘Leary (USyd)

Lucia (Premilla) Chinnappa-Quinn

PhD student The association of acute illness hospitalisation with cognitive trajectory in the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Prof Michael Bennett (Prince of Wales Clinical School), Dr Nicole Kochan, Dr John Crawford, Dr Steve Makkar (until Oct 2019), Dr Ben Lam (from Oct 2019)

Chao Dong

Scientia PhD student Investigation of genetic risk factors related to ageing Supervisors: A/Prof Wei Wen, Dr Jiyang Jiang, Dr Karen Mather, Dr Anbu Thalamuthu, Prof Perminder Sachdev

Jing Du

PhD Student Examination of cerebrovascular burden using neuroimaging techniques in ageing brains School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Wei Wen, Dr Jiyang Jiang

Heidi Foo

Scientia PhD student Risk factors and biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, A/Prof Wei Wen

Fleur Harrison

PhD student Apathy in older community-dwelling persons: improving assessment, investigating its association with immune markers, differentiating from depression and fatigue and modelling its longitudinal course School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Henry Brodaty, Dr Liesbeth Aerts, Dr Katrin Seeher, Prof Adam Guastella, Prof Julian Trollor, Prof Andrew Lloyd

Rene Jezewski

PhD student The neuropathology of ageing School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Dr Claire Shepherd, Dr Karen Mather, Dr Anne Poljak

Fatemeh Khorshidi

PhD student Pharmacological promotion of NAD+ anabolism to reduce ad pathology and delay cognitive decline School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Dr Anne Poljak

Chulkyu Kim

PhD student Nutrigenomic activators: A target for neurocognitive disorders and healthy brain ageing School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Dr Nady Braidy

Rebecca Koncz

PhD student The relative genetic and environmental contributions to amyloid deposition in the brains of older adults: amyloid

imaging using the twin design School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Prof Christopher Rowe (Austin Health, Melbourne), A/Prof Wei Wen, Dr Anbu Thalamuthu

Jessica Lazarus

PhD student Epigenetics and longevity Department of Anatomy, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Dr Karen Mather

Matthew Lennon

PhD student Risk and preventive factors in Dementia – An international harmonization of longitudinal studies School of Psychiatry and St Vincents Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Dr Anbu Thalamuthu, Dr John Crawford, Dr Ben Lam

Annabel Matison

PhD student Examining the relationship between diet, depression and nutrigenomics School of Psychiatry and St Vincents Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Dr Karen Mather, Dr Simon Reppermund, Prof Vicki Flood (USYD)

Janet Mitchell

PhD student Meaningful relationships with care – The Social Orientation of Care in Aged Living (SOCIAL) School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Henry Brodaty, Prof Jeffrey Braithwaite (Macquarie University), Professor Lynn Chenoweth

Adith Mohan

PhD student Influence of ageing on the human brain transcriptome School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Dr Karen Mather, Prof Perminder Sachdev, Dr Anbu Thalamuthu

Zara Page

PhD Student Towards achieving culture-fair neuropsychological assessment for Mild Cognitive Impairment and dementia in culturally and linguistic diverse (CALD) School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Dr Nicky Kochan, Prof Henry Brodaty

Matthew Paradise

PhD student Neuroimaging of cerebrovascular disease School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, A/Prof Wei Wen

Mary Revelas

PhD student The genetics of exceptional longevity and successful ageing School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Dr Karen Mather, Prof Perminder Sachdev, Dr Anbu Thalamuthu

Annette Spooner

PhD student Early detection of Alzheimer's disease using machine learning School of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Arcot Sowmya, Prof Perminder Sachdev, A/Prof Gelareh Mohammadi

Marina Ulanova

PhD student Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles as contrast agents for mr imaging of amyloid beta plaques in Alzheimer's disease School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Dr Nady Braidy

Gurjeet Kaur Virk

Scientia PhD student Development of blood biomarkers for early onset Alzheimer's disease using discovery proteomics School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Dr Anne Poljak, Prof Perminder Sachdev

Heidi Welberry

PhD student Using big data to understand health related trajectories for older Australians at risk of dementia School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Henry Brodaty

Jacqueline Wesson

PhD student Evaluating functional cognition and performance of everyday tasks in older people with dementia – the validity, reliability and usefulness of the Allen’s model of cognitive disability Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney Supervisors: Prof Lindy Clemson, Prof Henry Brodaty, Dr Simone Reppermund

Mark Yates

PhD student The impact of the Dementia Care in Hospitals Program in improving the quality of life and adverse events in acute hospital patients with cognitive impairment: a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Henry Brodaty

COMPLETED

Yue Liu, PhD

Contribution of cerebrovascular and Alzheimer-type pathology in the aetiology of neurocognitive disorders School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Dr Nady Braidy, Prof Perminder Sachdev, Dr Anne Poljak, A/Prof Wei Wen PhD conferred: 2020

Anne Wand, PhD

Understanding self-harm in the very old: A qualitative study with implications for clinical care and wider society School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Carmelle Peisah, Prof Brian Draper and Prof Henry Brodaty PhD conferred: May 2020