Meet our panel of medical specialists

Research Review Australia works with over 70 local medical specialists to select and advise on the most important research from around the world. They advise on what really matters, what impact it has on local healthcare and what we need to do in our daily practice to accomodate new skills and knowledge. Select a category below to see more about each of our expert advisors.

Associate Professor Steve MacFarlane

Associate Professor Steve MacFarlane

Steve graduated from Monash University in 1991, and became a psychiatrist in 2003, and was appointed Director of Aged Psychiatry at Peninsula Health in 2005. He moved to Alfred Health in 2008 as Associate Professor and Director of Aged Psychiatry, before accepting a position as Head of Clinical Services with Dementia Support Australia in 2016. Steve is the Chair of the Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age for the RANZCP, has been running Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials for over 20 years, and has clinical interests in frontal lobe disorders and in senile squalor... read more »

Professor Paul Fitzgerald

Professor Paul Fitzgerald

Professor Paul Fitzgerald is Professor of Psychiatry, Deputy Director and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, a joint research centre of Monash University and the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. He runs a research program focussed on the conduct of investigative studies of brain function and dysfunction as well as the conduct of a variety of novel clinical trials in mood, anxiety, psychotic and developmental disorders. He has published over 250 papers and received grant funding from a range of Australian and international organisations... read more »