Professor Dimity Pond

Professor Dimity Pond is head of the Discipline of General Practice at the University of Newcastle and the leader for the 'Dementia in General Practice' node.

She has a long track record of research on dementia in General Practice, including early studies on detailing interventions with GPs and collaborative work with Professor Brodaty on trialling the GPCOG dementia screening instrument. She is currently working on a multistate collaborative RCT of an intervention educating GPs about dementia screening and management. Professor Pond is also chair of the National Standing Committee for Research for the RACGP. She is active in clinical general practice and has a number of patients
in residential aged care.