Professor Cassandra Szoeke is a Consultant Neurologist, Author and Internationally awarded Academic. 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, her postdoctoral studies at Stanford University CA, focused on public health and policy and 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 worked in the Commonwealth Science Industry and Research Organisation, Public Hospital system and as non-executive board director for the Department of Health, including holding roles as Chair of Quality & Safety and Chair of Education, Training and Research Committees. 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.
Professor Szoeke has represented Australia on several major international collaborative efforts. She is the Inaugural Chair of the Asia-Pacific Node of the Women’s Brain Project. She has contributed to the development of national health policies, has sat on the Council of the Australian Medical Association, was appointed to Medical Panels by the Department of Health (Victoria) and has held Chief Health Advisor roles for the Australian Healthy Ageing Organisation and the National Council of Women.
She is current lead of the Women’s Healthy Ageing Program at the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation having previously 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.
