Appendix C: Postgraduate Students

Current

Toyin Abdulsalam Ademola

Scientia PhD student Bioinformatics using multi-omics data integration strategies to predict age-related phenotypes and longevity Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health 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’s and cerebrovascular disease brain pathology Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Prof Glenda Halliday (USyd)

Abdullah Alqarni

PhD student Sex differences in risk factors for white matter hyperintensities in non-demented older individuals Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: A/Prof Wei Wen, Dr Jiyang Jiang, Prof Perminder Sachdev

Russell Chander

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

Chao Dong

Scientia PhD student Genetic and environmental influences on human brain changes in ageing Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: A/Prof Wei Wen, Dr Jiyang Jiang, Dr Karen Mather, Dr Anbu Thalamuthu, Prof Perminder Sachdev

Jing Du

PhD student Investigation of cerebrovascular burden using neuroimaging techniques in ageing brains Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: A/Prof Wei Wen, Dr Jiyang Jiang

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 Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Prof Henry Brodaty, Dr Liesbeth Aerts, Dr Katrin Seeher, Prof Adam Guastella, Prof Julian Trollor, Prof Andrew Lloyd

Nicholas Hoy

PhD student Investigating transdiagnostic models of mental illness across the lifespan, as well as the genetic and neural structures that influence transdiagnostic risk of mental illness Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisor: Dr Louise Mewton

Fatemeh Khorshidi

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

Chulkyu Kim

PhD student Nutrigenomic activators: A target for neurocognitive disorders and healthy brain ageing Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Dr Nady Braidy, Prof Perminder Sachdev

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 Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Prof Christopher Rowe (Austin Health, Melbourne), A/Prof Wei Wen, Dr Anbu Thalamuthu

Matthew Lennon

PhD student Risk and preventive factors in Dementia – An international harmonization of longitudinal studies Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health, and St Vincents Clinical School, 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 Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health, and St Vincents Clinical School, UNSW Supervisors: Dr Karen Mather, Dr Simon Reppermund

Janet Mitchell

PhD student Meaningful relationships with care – The Social Orientation of Care in Aged Living (SOCIAL) Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health

Supervisors: Prof Henry Brodaty, Professor Lynn Chenoweth, Prof Jeffrey Braithwaite (Macquarie University)

Adith Mohan

PhD student Human brain transcriptome changes during ageing - a post-mortem brain tissue study – A large multi-site RNA sequencing study investigating age-related change in the human brain transcriptome Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Dr Karen Mather, 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) Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Dr Nicky Kochan, Prof Henry Brodaty, Dr Karen Croot

Alice Powell

PhD student Exceptional cognition in old age and interactions with other aspects of successful ageing Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Prof Henry Brodaty, Prof Perminder Sachdev, Dr Nicky Kochan

Mary Revelas

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

Annette Spooner

PhD student Predicting Dementia using Machine Learning School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Faculty of Engineering, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Arcot Sowmya (CSE), A/Prof Gelareh Mohammadi (CSE), Prof Perminder Sachdev

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, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisor: Dr Nady Braidy

Gurjeet Kaur Virk

Scientia PhD student Development of blood biomarkers for early onset Alzheimer’s disease using discovery proteomics Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Dr Anne Poljak, Prof Perminder Sachdev

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 Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Prof Henry Brodaty, Prof Brian Draper

Completed

Lucia Premilla Chinnappa-Quinn, PhD

The association of acute illness hospitalisation with cognitive trajectory in the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study School of Psychiatry, UNSW Medicine and Health 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) Degree conferred: June 2021

Sophie Xi Chen, PhD

The relationship between dietary patterns and cognitive health among older adults School of Psychiatry, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Prof Henry Brodaty, Dr Fiona O‘Leary (USyd) Degree conferred: 2021

Heidi Foo, PhD

Genetic and environmental influences on the brain functional networks in older adults Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, A/Prof Wei Wen Degree conferred: 15 Dec 2021

Matthew Paradise, PhD

Neuroimaging of cerebrovascular disease Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, A/Prof Wei Wen Degree conferred: 30 Jan 2022

Heidi Welberry, PhD

Using big data to understand health related trajectories for older Australians at risk of dementia Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisor: Prof Henry Brodaty Degree conferred: 2021

Michael Budiarto

Honours student User experience of computerised neuropsychological assessments in older adults at home: A mixed methods study Supervisors: Dr Nicole Kochan, Dr Karen Croot

Jared Duc-Lok Cheung

Honours Student Intrinsic Capacity: An Alternative Predictor of Frailty in Older Adults? Supervisors: Prof Henry Brodaty, Dr Katya Numbers, Dr Suraj Samtani

Shizuka Hayashi

Honours Student, First Class Explore human brain measures computed from longitudinal and cross-sectional pipelines of FreeSurfer Supervisors: A/Prof Wei Wen, Dr Jiyang Jiang, Dr Yang Song (School of Computer Sciences and Engineering)

Keshuo Lin

Honours Student Automated rating of perivascular spaces in ageing brains using UK Biobank data Supervisors: Dr Jiyang Jiang, A/Prof Dadong Wang (CSIRO; School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW), A/Prof Wei Wen

Christabella Nicole Surono

ILP Student The Influence of Genetic and Environmental Factors on The Relationship between Mood and Cognition Supervisors: Dr Vibeke Catts, Dr Teresa Lee, Prof Perminder Sachdev

Andy Yu

Honours Student Examining the Heritability of the Spatial Distribution of Brain White Matter Fibre Tracts Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging Scans of OATS by employing Data Curves’ Depths Supervisors: Prof Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux, A/Prof Wei Wen, Dr Pavlo Mozharovskyi