PROFESSOR BLOSSOM STEPHAN

Professor Blossom Stephan is the inaugural Chair of Dementia (for Curtin University and Dementia Australia) and is Director of the Dementia Centre of Excellence at Curtin University. She is a Dementia Australia Honorary Medical Advisor. She is also a member of the Alzheimer’s Society (UK) Research Strategy Council and the Board of Directors for the Dementia Australia Research Foundation (DARF). 

She is an internationally renowned neuroepidemiologist leading a program of research on dementia risk prediction and risk reduction in high and low- and middle-income countries. With over 200 published papers, her research is transforming our understanding of modifiable risk factors and creating evidence-based pathways for dementia prevention at both the individual and population levels.