Henry Brodaty, AO, MB BS, MD, FRACP, FRANZCP 
(Australia), President-Elect 

Henry Brodaty is the Scientia Professor of Ageing and Mental Health and Director of the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney and Director of the Aged Care Psychiatry at Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia. He graduated bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery from the University of Sydney in 1970, was awarded a doctorate in medicine (by research) at the University of New South Wales, in 1985 and a Doctor of Science at UNSW in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

A member of IPA since 1991, he served on the Board of Directors from 1994-2002. He was a founding executive member of the Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

Henry Brodaty has been very active with Alzheimer’s Associations. He helped found and was the first president of Alzheimer’s Australia New South Wales from 1982-1984 and again from 1988-1991. He helped found Alzheimer’s Australia, was its inaugural senior vice-president from 1985-1988 and president from 1988-1991. He served as chair of its Dementia Research Committee from its inception in 1984 to 2010. He was also a founding member of Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), where he has served on the executive continuously until 2005, including being Chairman from 2002-2005, Vice-Chairman from 1998-2002, and chair of ADI’s Medical and Scientific Committee from 1993-2002.

Professor Brodaty has been the recipient of a number of research, community and service awards from the Australian government, the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatry, the University of New South Wales, Rotary and IPA including being made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2002 and the Distinguished Services to the Field of Psychogeriatrics Award from IPA in 2009.

The author of over 300 articles and book chapters, Professor Brodaty’s research interests lie in the fields of dementia caregivers, drug treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), nursing homes and epidemiology of cognitive health and decline.

Henry Brodaty became President-Elect of IPA in 2011.

He can be contacted at h.brodaty@unsw.edu.au

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