Category: Associate Investigators

  • Professor Chris Levi

    Professor Chris Levi

    (University of Newcastle) Professor Levi is an accomplished acute stroke and health systems trialist and an internationally recognised health research manager. As Director of the John Hunter Health and Innovation Precinct, Professor Levi is responsible for developing and implementing programs to enhance large-scale collaborative translational research.

  • Associate Professor Tim Kleinig

    (University of Adelaide) Professor Kleinig is the Head of South Australia’s sole Comprehensive Stroke Centre (the Royal Adelaide Hospital), and Chair of the SA Stroke Community of Practice. He is the President of the Australian and New Zealand Stroke Organisation, Co-Chair of the Australian Stroke Coalition, Chair of the Stroke Unit Certification Committee, and National…

  • Professor Natasha Lannin

    (Monash University) Professor Lannin is a Professor in Neuroscience (Monash University), holds a Chair in Allied Health Research (Alfred Health), has a postgraduate certificate in implementation science (UCSF) and is an occupational therapist by background. Professor Lannin is the Chair of the Management Committee for the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (AuSCR), Chair of the Data…

  • Kelvin Hill

    (Stroke Foundation) In the role as National Manager, Stroke TreatmentClinical Services, Kelvin oversees the development and implementation of the Australian and New Zealand living stroke guidelines, the National Stroke Audit, the content and functionality of ‘InformMe’ (the website exclusively supporting the clinical stroke community in Australia), and other national clinical and policy activity for the…

  • Professor Maree Hackett

    The George Institute, University of New South Wales Professor Hackett is the Head, Student and Fellows Program at The George Institute for Global Health, UNSW and Professor of Epidemiology at The University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom. Professor Hackett will contribute to clinical trial activities bringing expertise in: large scale, multicentre, international clinical…

  • Professor Graeme Hankey

    MBBS, MD, FRCPEdin, FRACP, FAHA, FESO, FWSO, FAHMS Graeme Hankey is Perron Institute Chair in Stroke Research at The University of Western Australia and the Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, Perth, Australia. He has led large international clinical trials including the VITATOPS and AFFINITY trials, and is now co-leading the SEANCON phase 2…

  • Associate Professor Erin Godecke

    (Edith Cowan University and Sir Charles Gairdner Osbourne Park Health Care Group) Associate Professor Godecke is a leading academic speech pathologist with expertise in the early management of aphasia and stroke outcomes. Professor Godecke holds the position of Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow at ECU and a conjoint role as Director of Allied Health Research at…

  • Professor Tammy Hoffmann

    (OAM) (Bond University) Professor Hoffmann (FAHMS) is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Bond University.

  • Brenda Booth

    (OAM) Brenda Booth is the survivor of a stroke, which occurred in 2001 at the age of 41. Brenda is a Registered Nurse with extensive experience working in the public and private hospital sectors as well as the Government Disability sector. Brenda has been awarded an Order of Australia in recognition of her services to…

  • Professor Julie Bernhardt

    (AM), (The Florey) Professor Bernhardt (FAAHMS) is one of Australia’s leading rehabilitation trialists and a leading diversity and gender equity advocate.