GAICD, AFAIDH, PhD,  FRACP, AMA(M),  MBBS,  BSc(Hons)

Professor Cassandra Szoeke is a Full Academic Professor, Clinician, Speaker and Author. As Principal Investigator of the Women’s Healthy Ageing Project, the longest study of women’s health in Australia, she authored the book Secrets of Women’s Healthy Ageing, which was highly commended in the Educational
Publishing Awards Australia and Best-selling title in 100 years of Melbourne University Publishing in the genre of Medicine. She is a general physician, consultant neurologist and multi-award-winning clinical researcher.

She has several hundred published articles in the medical literature and several book chapters in medical textbooks.  She has worked in the Commonwealth Science Industry and Research Organisation, Public Hospital system and for the Department of Health, including holding roles as Chair of Quality & Safety and Chair of Education, Training and Research Committees.

In addition to her medical qualifications and fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians she has a BSc with Honours in Genetics and PhD in Epidemiology, and her postdoctoral studies at Stanford University CA, focused on public health and policy.  Her sabbatical at Oxford University focused on sex-specific medicine. She is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Digital Health and Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

She has held many significant academic positions and teaching roles for academic institutions and specialist colleges and has successfully graduated more than 60 higher research degree candidates.

She has represented Australia on several major international collaborative efforts including Australian clinical representative role in the world-wide Alzheimer’s Disease, Clinical lead on the Global burden of Dementia and on the science advisory of the International Women’s Brain Project and inaugural lead of the Asia Pacific node.

She spent more than two decades working in Healthy Ageing at the University of Melbourne including more than a decade as Director of the Healthy Ageing Program at the University of Melbourne. She was Lead of the Neurodegenerative Disease, Mental Disorders & Brain Health Theme at Commonwealth Science Research & Industry Organisation before becoming Clinical Consultant to their Prevetive Health Flagship.   She is currently Director of the Womens Healthy Ageing Program at the Monash Centre for Health Research & Translation.

She has worked in the public and private health system in clinical, leadership and governance roles as board director appointed by the state health minister. She has contributed to development of national health policies, sat on the Council of the Australian Medical Association, was appointed to Medical Panels by the Department of Health (Victoria) and she has held Chief Medical Officer roles for the Australian Healthy Ageing Organisation and the National Council of Women.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cassandra-Szoeke
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/cassandra.szoeke.1/bibliography/public/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Healthy_Ageing_Project#