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Psych: Senior management
Professor Kim Cornish
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Head of School
- responsible for providing academic, strategic and administrative leadership to the School. It is also the role of the Head of School to engage with faculty and university initiatives and with external organisations.
Head of Discipline - Psychology
- responsible for providing academic leadership of the discipline and facilitate a spirit of collegiality within the School.
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Developmental neuroscientist Professor Kim Cornish is a world-leading expert in tracing developmental pathways in genetic disorders, and especially Fragile X syndrome – an X-linked disorder that represents one of the only known single gene causes of autism. Other neurodevelopmental disorders include ADHD, autism, Williams syndrome and Down syndrome. Elucidating the often complex links between genes and behaviour has been the passion that has driven Professor Cornish's work for over two decades. Having gained her PhD in 1991 from the University of London she has held senior academic positions at the University of Nottingham in the UK, McGill University in Montreal where she awarded the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Developmental Neuroscience and Education, and most recently at Monash University as Discipline Head of Psychology and Deputy Head of the School of Psychology and Psychiatry.
In 2009 Professor Cornish established Monash's first Developmental Neuroscience and Genetics Disorder Laboratory aimed at creating a multidisciplinary platform for the emerging field of neurogenetics and brain disorders. She is the co-author of Attention, Genes and Developmental Disorders to be published in August 2010.
E: kim.cornish@monash.edu
Professor David Clarke
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Deputy Head of School
- supports the head of school in an ongoing capacity in matters relating to academic, strategic and administrative leadership of the School.
Head of Discipline - Psychiatry
- responsible for providing academic leadership of the discipline and facilitate a spirit of collegiality within the School.
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E: david.clarke@monash.edu
Ms Leisa McGuinness
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School Manager
- responsible for management and operation of the School’s governance, administrative, budgetary and resources functions and for input into strategic directions of the School.
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Leisa McGuinness has worked in the University since 1995 in a variety of roles and areas, spanning central finance and administration, student services and facilities management. She has worked as School Manager in a number of Schools across two Faculties and her areas of interest and expertise include financial management, HR and change management.
E: leisa.mcguinness@monash.edu
Professor Julie Stout
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Director, Research
- provides leadership and governance of research in the School, consistent with our strategic objectives
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Julie Stout received a Bachelor of Sciences degree from Ohio State University, and both a M.A. and a PhD from Duke University where she was trained as a clinical psychologist. She completed post-doctoral training in neuroimaging and neuropsychology at the University of California, San Diego. She served as assistant, associate, and full professor of neurosciences and of clinical science in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and was the Eleanor Cox Riggs Professor of Social Sciences and Ethics at Indiana University until her departure in 2007. She then relocated to the School in 2007, where she directs the Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience laboratory.
Research Interests
- Development and implementation of strategies and tools for sensitive measurement of cognitive function to aid in the understanding and treatment of Huntington Disease.
- Cognitive models of decision making and their applications to clinical populations, especially drug use problems.
E: julie.stout@monash.edu
Associate Professor Shantha Rajaratnam
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Director, Undergraduate Programs
- provides leadership and governance of Undergraduate Programs in the School, consistent with our strategic objectives
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E: shantha.rajaratnam@monash.edu
Associate Professor Stuart Thomas
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Director, Postgraduate Coursework & Professional Training
- provides leadership and governance of Postgraduate Coursework & Professional Training in the School, consistent with our strategic objectives
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E: stuart.thomas@monash.edu
Professor Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis
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Director, Research Degrees
- provides leadership and governance of research degrees in the School, consistent with our strategic objectives
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Professor Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis completed her PhD at Monash University in 1997 and since that time has worked at Monash as a teaching and research academic. She is a world-leading cognitive neuroscientist with an established reputation in exploring linkages between brain mechanisms and the cognitive and motor signatures in neurodegenerative diseases (e.g. Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Friedreich ataxia). She is Head of the Experimental Neuropsychology Research Unit (ENRU) and has established interdisciplinary collaborations from the disciplines of neurology, psychiatry, genetics, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental neuropsychology. Via the use of state-of-the-art motor, cognitive and brain imaging technologies her research has significantly enhanced the understanding of behavioural consequences of disease, enabled novel strategies for management of symptoms, and provided ground-breaking new insights on functional operations of the human brain. Professor Georgiou-Karistianis has considerable expertise in the use of brain imaging technologies including electrophysiology (EEG, ERPs) and magnetic resonance (MR) neuroimaging methods, including MRI, fMRI, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) with large competitive grants focused on the discovery of imaging biomarkers for future therapeutic trials.
E:nellie.georgiou-karistianis@monash.edu
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