ADRF 2024: Full Schedule

11:00am AEST

Special Interest Group: Young Onset Dementia (YOD-SIG)

The session will showcase current advancements in research, innovation, and service developments in the young-onset dementia field, through a series of invited presentations. The session will end with a Q&A panel to discuss research priorities and ways to move the field forward. The session will be of relevance to researchers, clinicians, and service providers, as well as people living with young-onset dementia and their care partners.

Speakers

Jade Cartwright

Monday June 3, 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm AEST
2. Springbrook Room

Special Interest Group, Current Advancements in Young Onset Dementia Research

2:00pm AEST

Continuing Education: Continuing Medical Education - Specialists Session

Introduction and overview. Educator: Professor Christopher Rowe
1. Appropriate Use Recommendation. Educator: Professor Colin Masters
2. How to give an infusion. Educator: Paul Yates
3. How to read ARIA for Radiologists. Educator: Associate Professor Lavier
Gomes
4. Post Marketing Surveillance. Educator: Professor Susannah Ahern

Chair

Professor Christopher Rowe

Professor Christopher Rowe is a nuclear medicine physician and neurologist, Director of the Australian Dementia Network, Director of Molecular Imaging Research at Austin Health, and a Professor of the University of Melbourne and Florey Institute. His research focus is molecular imaging... Read More →

Speakers

Professor Colin Masters

Colin Masters has focused his career on research in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. His work over the last 40 years is widely acknowledged as having had a major influence on Alzheimer’s disease research world-wide, particularly... Read More →

Associate Professor Paul Yates

Associate Professor Paul Yates is a geriatrician and clinician-researcher with interest in improving care of people living with dementia and cognitive disorders, as well as frailty, healthy ageing, and health systems research at the interface between hospital and community, including... Read More →

Associate Professor Lavier Gomes

Lavier Gomes is a Staff Neuroradiologist at Westmead Hospital in Sydney and an Associate Professor at Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney University.A/Professor Gomes graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney and trained in Radiology at Westmead... Read More →

Professor Susannah Ahern

Professor Ahern is a medical administrator and academic in health services research and management at Monash University. As the Head of the Clinical Outcomes Reporting and Research Program, she is the Monash Academic Lead for six national clinical quality registries. She has published... Read More →

Monday June 3, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm AEST
2. Springbrook Room

Continuing Medical Education, Safe and Appropriate Use of Anti Amyloid Antibodies

10:00am AEST

Oral Stream 1: Discovery (Basic Science/Discovery)

1. 'Towards restoration of proteomic balance: Tau antibodies’ impact on a mouse model of tauopathy'
Presented by: Esteban Cruz

2. 'Alteration of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) trafficking by familial Alzheimer’s disease
mutation featured by quantitative live-cell microscopy'
Presented by: Lou Fourriere-Chea

3. 'Unraveling the Early Trajectory of Cortical Tau Accumulation Using 18F-MK6240'
Presented by: Vincent Dore

4. 'Genome-wide CRISPRi Screening Reveals Regulators of Alzheimer’s Tau Pathology Shared Between Exosomal and Vesicle-Free Tau Seeds'
Presented by: Juan Carlos Polanco

Chair

Scott Ayton

Professor Scott Ayton is a NHMRC Leadership Fellow (L1), Director of the NHRMC Centre of Research Excellence in Enhanced Dementia Diagnosis and head of the Dementia Mission and Translational Neurodegeneration Laboratory at the Florey Institute. Dr. Ayton pursues both laboratory (biochemistry... Read More →

Speakers

Esteban Cruz

Esteban is a postdoctoral researcher at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) working on the development of passive immunotherapies for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Esteban obtained his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2020 for his work on the implementation... Read More →

Lou Fourriere-Chea

I am a research fellow at the Bio21 Institute. I have made significant contributions to the membrane transport field through my collaborations and high-impact publications. I have presented my work at national and international conferences. During my PhD (2016, Curie Institute, Paris... Read More →

Vincent Dore

Dr. Vincent Dore is a Senior Researcher at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia.

Juan Carlos Polanco

Dr Juan Carlos Polanco earned his PhD at the University of Queensland, specializing in the molecular intricacies of mammalian sex determination under the guidance of Emeritus Prof. Peter Koopman. In 2013, Dr Polanco joined Prof Jürgen Götz’s laboratory at the Queensland Brain... Read More →

Tuesday June 4, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am AEST
2. Springbrook Room

Discovery Orals

11:30am AEST

Oral Stream 2: Prevention and Diagnosis

1. 'More than a one-hit wonder: Exploring synergistic effects of genetic and environmental risk factors in the progression of cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease'
Presented by: Lyndsey Collins-Praino

2. 'The Role of Diet in Modulating the Relationship Between Depression and Brain Amyloid Load'
Presented by: Hilal Al Shamsi

3. 'Estimating pre-symptomatic episodic memory and executive function in community-dwelling adults using unsupervised online hand movement analysis'
Presented by: Jane Alty

4. 'Meeting the need for valid mid-life dementia risk assessment: Development and validation of risk scores for a midlife specific dementia risk tool'
Presented by: Md Hamidul Huque

Chair

Professor Blossom Stephan

Professor Stephan holds the inaugural Chair of Dementia (in partnership with Dementia Australia) and is director of the Dementia Centre of Excellence, at Curtin University. She is Chair of the Alzheimer’s Society UK Sub-Committee on Dementia Prevention. Her research focuses on risk... Read More →

Dr Jacqueline Wesson

Jacki is an occupational therapist, with expertise in functional cognition, performance-based IADL assessment in mild cognitive impairment and dementia, and non-pharmacological behaviour support for people living with dementia across the continuum of ability. She has more than 20... Read More →

Speakers

Associate Professor Jane Alty

Jane Alty is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Tasmania and a Neurologist at the Royal Hobart Hospital. She is also Co-Director of the ISLAND Clinic, a ‘one-stop’ cognitive clinic that provides an interdisciplinary assessment and diagnosis for Tasmanian... Read More →

Lyndsey Collins-Praino

A/Professor Lyndsey Collins-Praino completed a PhD in behavioural neuroscience from the University of Connecticut and a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience from Columbia University. She leads the Cognition, Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease Lab (CANDL) in the School... Read More →

Hilal Al Shamsi

PhD at Edith Cowan University

Md Hamidul Huque

Dr Huque is an early career researcher and statistician who has expertise in working with administrative data analysis, biostatistics, longitudinal/clustered data, measurement error, missing data, spatial and temporal models, and survival analysis. His research has focused on the... Read More →

Tuesday June 4, 2024 11:30am - 12:30pm AEST
2. Springbrook Room

Prevention & Diagnosis Orals

4:20pm AEST

Australia’s Dementia Data Landscape

This session is proudly sponsored by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

1. 'Improving dementia data in Australia: National Dementia Data Improvement Plan 2023–2033'
Presented by: Melanie Dunford

2. 'Pursuing Dementia Detection for Better Prevalence Estimation with Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Electronic Health Data'
Presented by: Professor Velandai Srikanth

3. 'Geographical Variation in health service use by people living with dementia'
Presented by: Megan Fraser

4. 'Dementia Awareness Survey – What do Australians know and think about dementia and dementia risk reduction?'
Presented by: Sarang Kim

Chair

Owen Carr

Dr Owen Carr joined the Department of Health and Aged Care in 2013 as a data analyst for the Ageing and Aged Care Group, having graduated from the Australian National University with a PhD in neurobiology. Owen has been an enduring member of the data team, and now leads the team and... Read More →

Speakers

Professor Velandai Srikanth

Prof Srikanth is the Director, National Centre for Healthy Ageing (ncha.org.au). His program of research spans several aspects of ageing health. These include dementia, cerebrovascular disease, metabolic health and brain ageing, gait and cognitive decline, and frailty and multimorbidity... Read More →

Melanie Dunford

Melanie Dunford is the Head of the Dementia Data Improvement Unit at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), and co-leads the AIHW National Centre for Monitoring Dementia which aims to monitor dementia in Australia, inform specific dementia policy needs and undertake... Read More →

Megan Fraser

Meg is a data analyst in the Dementia Data Analysis and Reporting Unit, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Meg has worked in analytical roles across the state and federal government health sector. She has substantial experience in the analysis of linked health, welfare... Read More →

Sarang Kim

Dr Kim is a senior project manager at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, leading AIHWs first nationally representative Dementia Awareness Survey. Prior to joining AIHW, she worked for over 14 years as a researcher in healthy ageing and dementia research, particularly... Read More →

Tuesday June 4, 2024 4:20pm - 5:20pm AEST
2. Springbrook Room

Symposium, Australia’s dementia data landscape

11:10am AEST

Oral Stream 1: Discovery (Basic Science/Discovery)

1. 'DeepSUVR: Using temporal constraints to improve SUVR and Centiloid quantification'
Presented by: Pierrick Bourgeat

2. 'Polygenic Scores for Alzheimer’s Disease Risk and Resilience Predict Age at Onset of Amyloid-β'
Presented by: Eleanor O'Brien

3. 'THE PTAU217 INTERACTOME IN HUMAN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE BRAIN TISSUE FROM APOE3 AND APOE4 CARRIERS'
Presented by: Eleanor Drummond

4. 'Amyloid Induced Hyperexcitability in Default Mode Network Drives Medial Temporal Hyperactivity and Early Tau Accumulation'
Presented by: Joseph Giorgio

Chair

Professor Jürgen Götz

Professor Jürgen Götz is the inaugural Director of theClem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Researchat the Queensland Brain Institute of the University of Queensland (Australia). Professor Götz studiedbiochemistry in Switzerland and earned his PhD in immunology with Nobel Laureate... Read More →

Speakers

Pierrick Bourgeat

Pierrick Bourgeat obtained his Ph.D. in image processing from the University of Burgundy in France. During his PhD, he spent 2 years working as a research assistant at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA. He then joined the medical image analysis at CSIRO in 2003.Over... Read More →

Eleanor O'Brien

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Precision Health and the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University. I research the contribution of genetics to the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s disease and related traits. I am also interested in... Read More →

Eleanor Drummond

Dr. Eleanor Drummond is the Bluesand Senior Research Fellow at the Brain & Mind Centre and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Sydney. She is also an adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology at New York University, USA. Her research program aims... Read More →

Joseph Giorgio

My research integrates neuroimaging, cognition, and biological data through machine learning and multivariate statistics to understand heterogeneity in Alzheimer’s disease. My doctoral research at the University of Cambridge involved the development of novel machine learning and... Read More →

Wednesday June 5, 2024 11:10am - 12:10pm AEST
2. Springbrook Room

Discovery Orals

12:10pm AEST

Oral Stream 2: Prevention and Diagnosis

1. 'Validation of multiple linked administrative datasets to identify people with dementia'
Presented by: Thao Vu

2. 'Effects of dual-task functional power-based training on cognitive function in older adults at increased falls risk: an 18-month cluster randomised controlled trial'
Presented by: Jamie Tait

3. 'What factors should be prioritised for dementia prevention? A meta-analysis of population attributable fractions (PAFs) related to modifiable risk factors'
Presented by: Professor Blossom Stephan

4. 'Pre-symptomatic Blood Tests to Detect Neurodegeneration and Predict Dementia Risk: Public Perceptions Aross the Life-course'
Presented by: Dr Hannah Fair

Chair

Professor Kaarin Anstey

Kaarin Anstey is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Director of the UNSW Ageing Futures Institute. She is also a conjoint Senior Principal Research Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia. Anstey’s research focuses on improving brain health and dementia risk reduction through the development... Read More →

Inga Mehrani

Inga Mehrani is the national Project Manager of the Australian Dementia Network – Memory Clinics initiative at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) at the University of New South Wales. This NHMRC-funded project aims to harmonise diagnostic standards of Australian Memory... Read More →

Speakers

Thao Vu

Thao Vu is currently a Senior Data Analyst in the Dementia Data Improvement Unit at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare in Canberra. She has a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Health Communication from The University of Sydney. Her work focuses on using linked administrative... Read More →

Jamie Tait

Dr Jamie Tait is a Lecturer in Exercise and Sport Science within the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and a member of the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition at Deakin University. His research focuses on the impact of ageing and chronic conditions (e.g., pain) on... Read More →

Professor Blossom Stephan

Dr Hannah Fair

Dr. Hannah Fair is a passionate lecturer and researcher who focuses on understanding and improving equity in health promotion, particularly in dementia prevention. She evaluates online health education programs like the ISLAND project Linking Aging and Neurovegetative Disease, the... Read More →

Wednesday June 5, 2024 12:10pm - 1:10pm AEST
2. Springbrook Room

Prevention & Diagnosis Orals