Cassandra Szoeke brings together high level management and communication skills with scientific expertise. She is a practicing physician in internal medicine with subspecialisation in neurology. She is a Professor, Academic Clinician, Speaker and Author. She is lead of the Womens Healthy Ageing Program at the Monash Centre for Health Research and Translation. Previously at the University of Melbourne for over 20 years with more than a decade as the Director of Healthy Ageing Program. She led the research program in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Mental Disorders and Brain Health at the Australian Commonwealth Science and Industry Organisation and then became a Clinical Consultant to CSIRO. She has significant experience in governance and formal training including being a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She has been Non executive director for the Western Health Service Network employed by the Victorian Minister for Health and in this role she was Chair of both the Quality & Safety and the Education & Research Board sub-committees. In addition to her medical qualifications she has an honours degree in Genetics and Pharmacology, and completed her PhD thesis in Epidemiology examining women’s healthy ageing with postdoctoral studies conducted with Stanford University focused on Public Health and Policy. Her sabbatical at Oxford University focused on sex-specific medicine. She has been in clinical research for over a decade with hundreds of publications in peer-reviewed journals and is a reviewer for national and international journals and funding bodies. She and her team have been the recipient of numerous national and international awards for her research work and is regularly invited to chair and speak at international and national conferences and has been invited expert to international roundtables and has initiated and been involved in conference organisation and the write-up of conference proceedings.