Consensus statement on patient care after heart failure hospitalisation

Dr Stephanie Daly
General Practitioner

Dr Stephanie Daly is a GP based in Adelaide and the founder of Sensus Cognition, a primary care cognition clinic. She is the Lead GP Educator at Dementia Training Australia and also works as a GP contractor at Golden Grove Family Health. Dr Daly serves as a medical educator with the Royal Australian College of General Practice (RACGP), and sits on both the RACGP Training and Education Committee and the Women in General Practice Committee. She is an advisory board member for the Roche Educational Development Team for Alzheimer’s Disease and is an associate investigator on two National Health and Medical Research Council funded research grants. Her work is grounded in a commitment to improve dementia care within general practice, through both education and research.

Professor Christopher Rowe
Neurologist

Professor Christopher Rowe is a nuclear medicine physician and neurologist who serves as Director of the Australian Dementia Network, Director of Molecular Imaging Research at Austin Health and Professor at both The University of Melbourne and The Florey Institute. His research centres on molecular imaging and blood biomarkers of dementia, with the aim of improving understanding, enabling earlier and more accurate detection, and supporting the development of early therapeutic interventions. He is recognised as a Highly Cited Researcher, ranking in the top 1% globally in the field of neuroscience, and has received numerous national and international awards for his contributions.

Associate Professor Michael Woodward AM
Geriatrician

Associate Professor Michael Woodward AM is Director of Aged Care Research and lead clinician at the Memory Clinic at Austin Health in Melbourne, Victoria. He specialises in geriatric medicine, with a focus on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. He is the Principal Investigator for numerous clinical trials investigating new therapies for these conditions, and serves as a board member of the Dementia Australia Research Foundation, as well as one of four Honorary Medical Advisors to Dementia Australia.

He was awarded his MD for his research exploring the overlap between different dementia syndromes and the role of memory clinic data in deepening our understanding of these conditions. His more recent research has focused on characterising the frontal (dysexecutive) variant of Alzheimer’s disease.

He is Chair of the Accreditation Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and has played an active role in the training programs of both the RACP and the Australia and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine for over 30 years.

In recognition of his contributions to dementia and geriatric medicine, his involvement with numerous professional bodies, and his substantial body of academic publications and writings, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia on Australia Day in 2016.

Associate Professor Paul Yates
Geriatrician

Associate Professor Paul Yates is a Geriatrician and Early Career Clinician-Researcher with expertise in dementia and geriatric medicine across both hospital and community settings, including residential aged care. He is Deputy Director of Aged Care Research and Medical Lead for the Residential InReach Service at Austin Health, and also holds the position of Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Austin Health, The University of Melbourne.