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Professor Cassandra Szoeke is a Full Academic Professor, Clinician, Speaker and Author. As Principal Investigator of the Women’s Healthy Ageing Project, the longest study of women’s health in Australia, she authored the book Secrets of Women’s Healthy Ageing, which was highly commended in the Educational Publishing Awards Australia, and was the Best-selling title in 100 years of Melbourne University Publishing in the genre of Medicine. She is a general physician, consultant neurologist and multi-award-winning clinical researcher. In addition to her medical qualifications and fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians she has a BSc with Honours in Genetics and PhD in Epidemiology, and her postdoctoral studies at Stanford University CA, focused on public health and policy. Her sabbatical at Oxford University focused on sex-specific medicine. She brings together high level management and communication skills with scientific expertise. She led the research program in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Mental Disorders and Brain Health at the Australian Commonwealth Science and Industry Organisation and then became a Clinical Consultant to the Preventive Health Flagship in CSIRO. She has worked in the public and private health system in clinical, leadership and governance roles as board director appointed by the state health minister. She is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Digital Health and Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She has held non-executive board director positions in not-for-profits and for the Department of Health, including holding roles as Chair of Board Subcommittees in Quality & Safety and Education, Training and Research. She has contributed to the development of national health policies, has sat on the Council of the Australian Medical Association, was appointed in 2020 to Medical Panels by the Department of Health (Victoria) and has held Chief Medical Officer roles for the Australian Healthy Ageing Organisation and the National Council of Women. She has held many significant academic positions and teaching roles for academic institutions and specialist colleges. She has several hundred published articles in academic journals and several book chapters in medical textbooks. She has represented Australia on several major international collaborative efforts including the Australian clinical representative role in the world-wide Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative, Clinical lead on the Global burden of Dementia, on the science advisory of the International Women’s Brain Project and inaugural lead of the Asia Pacific node. |