Associate Professor Lata Vadlamudi

Associate Professor Lata Vadlamudi is a Senior Staff Specialist in Neurology at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital; Epileptologist within the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program; Metro North Clinician Research Fellow; and Neurosciences Theme Leader at the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research.

Clinical interests include integrating genomics into the clinical care and management of women with epilepsy, through all stages of life from pre-conception to pregnancy and menopause. Current research projects include developing patient-specific brain organoid models to personalise epilepsy care with a current MRFF funded mission entitled Personalising Epilepsy Regimes with Stem cells and artificial Intelligence models for Superior Treatment outcomes (PERSIST); and developing a neuro-genomics service in Queensland.

Awards have included UQCCR Clinical Researcher of the year; Epilepsy Queensland Health Award for contributions to the medical care of people with epilepsy; and Leonard Cox Award for outstanding contribution to research in the field of Neurology.