#3 Four Australian Clinicians Answer Five DCC Questions

Описание: AUSDOCC CONNECTIONS 2017 - Melbourne, Australia. The conference for all things corpus callosum.
Meet 4 key Australian professionals who have studied the corpus callosum for decades, Dr George McGillivray, Associate Professor Simone Mandelstam, Associate professor Rick Leventer and Professor Mark Walterfang.
Read more about each speaker and the 5 questions here.

1. Dr George McGillivray -
George is a clinical geneticist and leading prenatal geneticist from Melbourne, Australia. George runs a neurogenetics clinic at the Royal Children’s Hospital and a fetal neurology clinic at the Mercy. His research collaborations include the genetics of brain disorders and accelerated gene identification programs at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.

2. Associate Professor Simone Mandelstam -
Simone is an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne department of Paediatrics and Radiology. She has worked on a number of projects for the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, involving advanced MRI techniques for further classification and delineation of congenital brain malformations and research into epilepsy imaging in children.
Simone is based at the Royal Children’s Hospital as a senior specialist paediatric and epilepsy radiologist in the Department of Medical Imaging.

3. Associate professor Rick Leventer -
Rick Dr Richard Leventer is a consultant paediatric neurologist at the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) a Group Leader of Neuroscience Research within the Clinical Sciences theme of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI).
Dr Leventer is Director of the RCH/MCRI Brain Malformation Program and Clinic, which is the referral centre for children with brain malformations from Australia and New Zealand. He conducts collaborative research on brain malformations with local, national and international colleagues including active projects on agenesis of the corpus callosum with genetics, basic science and neuropsychology colleagues. Dr Leventer is the Australian representative on a new international consortium studying white matter disorders, known as the Global Leukodystrophy Initiative. Dr Leventer was president of the Australia and New Zealand Child Neurology Society from 2002 – 2007.

4. Professor Mark Walterfang -
Mark has been a consultant neuropsychiatrist at the Statewide Neuropsychiatry Unit at the Royal Melbourne Hospital for more than 15 years, and is involved in the inpatient and outpatient management of neuropsychiatric disorders. He completed his PhD in 2011 where he looked at the relationship of the structure of the corpus callosum to major psychiatric illness. Additionally he holds academic appointments at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, and the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. His research has focussed on computational neuroimaging analysis in psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. He has an active interest in rare disorders, including callosal agenesis, and rare neurometabolic disorders.

At CONNECTIONS 2017 in Melbourne each answered 5 questions.
The 5 questions:
1. As a professional with a connection to DCC, describe yourself and your work.
2. What is your DCC passion and what led you to it?
3. What one piece of advice would you give to families with a family member who has Conference a DCC?
4. What one piece of advice would you give to health/educational professionals who manage someone with a DCC?
5. Still living or not, who would you most like to have dinner with and why? (Not family)