Our aims and priorities are to:

• Develop a clinical trials network in mental health at Monash Partners sites
• Develop an integrated biobank
• Extend sleep disorder/circadian disturbance phenotyping
• Further develop infrastructure needed for health services data analysis by leveraging expertise in the
  Monash Partners data platform
• Further develop imaging research across Monash Partners
• Develop a unified approach towards new ways of treating and assisting people with dementia and
  other related cognitive disorders.

This theme is led by Dr Mastura Monif, Professor Suresh Sundram and Professor Velandai Srikanth.

Dr Mastura Monif

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Mastura Monif is an Associate Professor in the Van Cleef Centre for Nervous Diseases, Department of Neuroscience, within the School of Translational Medicine at Monash University. She leads the Neuroimmunology, Neuroinflammation and Neuro Oncology Lab at Monash University Department of Neuroscience. Her research interests are to understand how neuroinflammation can induce neurological disease.

Professor Velandai Srikanth

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Professor Velandai Srikanth is a geriatrician with clinical and research expertise in dementia and stroke. He is the Professor of Medicine at Peninsula Health, and the Peninsula Clinical School, Monash University.

Professor Suresh Sundram

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Professor Suresh Sundram is Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Monash University. He also heads Translational Molecular Psychiatry and Asylum Seeker and Refugee Mental Health research.

The Neuroscience, Mental Health and Sleep Steering Committee brings together researchers and clinicians from across Monash Partners. They include:

• Professor Suresh Sundram (Lead)
• Professor Velandai Srikanth (Lead)
• Associate Professor Zane Andrews
• Professor Mark Bellgrove
• Professor Helmut Butzkueven
• Professor Paul Fitzgerald
• Professor Dan Lubman
• Associate Professor Suzie Miller
• Professor Terence O’Brien
• Professor Shanthakumar Rajaratnam
• Dr John Waterston.

Monash Partners is proud to support the following projects within this Theme:

Active participatory health monitoring in people with multiple sclerosis to improve treatment
outcomes (Active MS)
Professor Helmut Butzkueven

New approaches for peri menopausal depression
Professor Jayashari Kulkarni