Professor Henry Brodaty

Professor Henry Brodaty AO MB BS MD DSc FRACP FRANZCP is Professor of Age Care Mental Health, University of New South Wales; Director, Aged Care Psychiatry and Head of the Memory Disorders Clinic, Prince of Wales Hospital. He is also the Director of the Primary Dementia Collaborative Research Centre. He has served on several New South Wales and Commonwealth committees related to ageing and dementia. He is the past chairman of Alzheimer’s Disease International, representing 77 national Alzheimer Associations and is past president of Alzheimer’s Australia and Alzheimer’s Australia (NSW). He has published over 200 papers and book chapters, is on the editorial board of several journals and has been the recipient of a number of awards.

Research Interests - Dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease: mild cognitive impairment; psychiatric sequelae of stroke; detection and management of dementia by General Practitioners; the effects of dementia on family carers and on how best to help them; trials of new drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease; the causes and management of behavioural and psychiatric complications of dementia (BPSD); nursing homes; late life depression.