Velandai Srikanth ESA-SRB-APEG-NZSE 2022

Velandai Srikanth

Professor Srikanth is the Director, National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA), and Professor of Medicine/Director of Research at Peninsula Health & Monash University, Melbourne. He is a clinical academic researcher with cohort epidemiology expertise. He has been the recipient of continuous fellowship support from the NHMRC and the Heart Foundation over the last 12 years, and several competitive national and international grants from his work. He graduated in Medicine in Chennai, India in 1988. After spending time in the UK as a junior medical officer, he moved to New Zealand in 1990, where he undertook training in Internal Medicine and Geriatric medicine. He migrated to Australia in 1996 to complete his Geriatric Medicine training at the Austin Hospital, Melbourne. He then completed his PhD at the National Stroke Research Institute, Melbourne, on the study of the relationship between stroke and dementia, conducting one of the earliest population-based cohort studies (NEMESIS) on this topic in the world. In 2002, he joined the Menzies Research Institute, Hobart as a clinical academic and post-doctoral researcher while leading the Geriatric Medicine Unit at the Royal Hobart Hospital. In 2006, he joined Monash University as a Senior Research Fellow and Geriatrician embedded within the Acute Stroke Unit and Neurosciences Dept at Monash Health. During this period, he initiated the largest Australian program of research investigating the link between diabetes and dementia using population-based cohort and twin study designs. He joined the Central Clinical School, Monash University in 2016 as the inaugural Chair in Medicine at Peninsula Health. In December 2021, he was appointed Director of the National Centre for Healthy Ageing, a Commonwealth funded Centre of Translational Research into ageing and aged care. He continues to practice Geriatric Medicine, particularly in the field of dementia management.