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Clinical Research Lead Scientist
Royal Children's Hospital
I am the lead clinician scientist for the Neuroscience Advanced Clinical Imaging Service (NACIS), Department of Neurosurgery, at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. NACIS is the translational clinical research program embedded in the clinical neurosurgery service. Me and my team are responsible for implementing advanced multimodal neuroimaging techniques for pre-surgery planning and intraoperative imaging-guidance at the Royal Children's Hospital. My research focuses on exploring translation values of advanced tractography and white matter modelling techniques in childhood epilepsy and brain tumour. I have a medical doctoral background with six years of advanced neurosurgery training and completed a PhD in the surgical application of advanced tractography in paediatric epilepsy surgery. I currently hold an honorary position, as the neurosurgery research team leader and honorary fellow manager at the Murdoch Children's Research Insitute, co-located with the Royal Children's Hospital; and as a level C senior fellow for Department of Paediatrics at the Melbourne university.