Dr Phil Wood is a geriatrician and clinical service leader of the Waikato District Health Board’s older persons and rehabilitation services. Dr Wood also maintains a research and private practice on Auckland’s North Shore, and a Memory Clinic at North Shore Hospital. He has had a long-standing interest in degenerative brain diseases in the older [...]

With a research career spanning over 35 years, Professor Richard Faull is recognised internationally as a leading expert on the workings of the human brain and the neurodegenerative diseases that can affect it including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases. In 2007, his research group provided the first evidence that the diseased human brain can repair [...]

Edward Mee trained at the Otago Medical School and completed his MD ChB in 1976. After working at Auckland Hospital he travelled to London and trained in general surgery and neurosurgery. He completed his training in 1987 and returned to a neurosurgical post at Auckland hospital where he is currently the Clinical Director of Neurosurgery. [...]

Michael Corballis is emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Auckland, and has a longstanding interest in brain asymmetry, language, and thought. His recent book Pieces of Mind: 21 Short Walks around the Human Brain has been published in New Zealand and Australia, and is about to be published in Greece, Korea, Serbia, and [...]

Dr Clare McCann is an aphasiologist and lecturer in speech language therapy at The University of Auckland. She is also a practising therapist and has worked in New Zealand, Germany and the UK. She is part of the Brain Recovery Clinic team and has a teaching clinic at the Tamaki campus. Her clinical work and [...]

Donna Rose Addis is an up and coming young cognitive neuroscientist in the Centre for Brain Research, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. Her research on memory and imagination is exciting much interest internationally, and here in New Zealand she was recently awarded both the prestigious Rutherford Discovery Fellowship and [...]

Dr Barry Snow is a leading neurologist specialising in movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. He is recognised internationally for his expertise in the management of these disorders, and locally, he is a leading authority in patient care, advocacy and research. He established the Auckland Movement Disorders Clinic in 1995 to lead a centralised structure [...]

Tony is a senior lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Auckland. He is a psychiatrist and sleep specialist who has been engaged in the research and teaching of positive psychology. He studied Zoology and obtained his Doctor of Medicine from the University of the Philippines followed by internship, residency and research fellowship at Columbia [...]

Professor Paul Smith completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology with 1st Class Honours at the University of Sydney and then went on to complete his PhD in Vestibular Physiology at the same University. He received the H. Tasman Lovell Memorial Medallion for his PhD thesis and after Post-Doctoral Research at the University of Sydney, moved [...]

Dr Gwyn Lewis is a Senior Lecturer and clinical researcher based at  AUT University. Dr Lewis completed her PhD in human motor (movement) control in 2003. Her research since this time has focused on motor control and neurophysiological studies involving people with movement disorders and in neural pathways associated with pain. Her studies examine the [...]

Professor Warren Tate is a molecular biologist at the University of Otago. His research into how proteins are synthesised in living cells has revolutionised understanding in this area. His research has shown how proteins contribute to memory formation and neurological disease, and have important implications for HIV, Alzheimer’s and chronic fatigue syndrome. Professor Tate is [...]

Professor Paul Glue is a psychiatrist and head of psychological medicine at the Dunedin School of Medicine.

In 2004, Dr Jessie Jacobsen received a Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship to complete a PhD on Huntington’s disease at The University of Auckland. Her doctoral research won her the MacDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year award in 2007. Following the completion of her PhD she received a Neurological Foundation Philip Wrightson Postdoctoral Fellowship to study [...]

In 2008 Dr Helen Fitzsimons was awarded the Neurological Foundation Repatriation Fellowship, which enabled her to return from seven years’ study in the USA and settle into her current role as Lecturer in Genetics at the Institute of Fundamental Sciences at Massey University in Palmerston North. Her research interests include the molecular basis of learning [...]

Dr Jon Simcock has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a neurologist. He was born in Dunedin, educated at New Plymouth Boy’s High School, and graduated from the Otago School of Medicine in 1960. He became a member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1964 and completed his specialist training as a [...]

Dr Bronwen Connor is an Associate Professor in Pharmacology and head of the Neural Repair and Neurogenesis laboratory at the Centre for Brain Research, University of Auckland. She is also Director of the Integrative Neuroscience Facility at the Centre for Brain Research. Her specific interest is in the identification and development of novel protective or [...]

Dr Deborah Mason is a consultant neurologist at Christchurch Hospital and currently leads a Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research group at the NZ Brain Research Institute in Christchurch. The group’s principal focus is clinical research into the disease multiple sclerosis. In 2006 the MS research group completed a nationwide study into the prevalence of MS identifying [...]