Professor Nancy Pachana
School of Psychology
Dr. Nancy Pachana is a clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist and Professor at the School of Psychology at UQ. Dr Pachana is the national chair of the Australian Psychological Society’s Psychology and Ageing Interest Group. She is a member of the Australian Psychological Society’s College of Clinical Psychologists and College of Clinical Neuropsychologists, and is a faculty affiliate of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists - Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age. She was recently awarded the Clinical College of the Australian Psychological Society’s inaugural Alastair Heron Prize for Research in Dementia. Her primary research interests include early detection of cognitive changes in later life, assessment and treatment of late-life anxiety and depression, driving and dementia, women’s health issues later in life and psychosocial interventions in long-term care.
Professor Gerard Byrne
School of Medicine
Dr Gerard Byrne is Head of Psychiatry within the School of Medicine at UQ and Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Service at the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital (RBWH). He is a visiting consultant to the multidisciplinary Memory Clinic and has recently established the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit at the RBWH. Dr Byrne is a past president of the Alzheimer’s Association (Queensland) and Chair-Elect of the Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. His primary research interests include Alzheimer's disease (particularly the neuropsychiatric symptoms associated with AD), and personality, anxiety and depression in older people.
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