Nicola T.  Lautenschlager, MD
(Australia) Editor-in-Chief, International Psychogeriatrics

Nicola T. Lautenschlager is Professor & Chair of Psychiatry of Old Age at The University of Melbourne, Department of Psychiatry. She is also the Director of St. Vincent's Aged Psychiatry Service at St. George’s Hospital in Kew and with this has adminstrative and clinical responsilibities. Lautenschlager is undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in Psychiatry.

Since her arrival in Australia, Lautenschlager has initiated or participated in research projects covering various topics with a general focus on improving mental health outcomes in old age. A recent focus in her research is the relationship between physical health and mental health in old age and how biological and environmental factors interact to impact on risk of cognitive decline.

Lautenschlager graduated in human medicine and received her postgraduate degree (MD) with first class honours from the Technical University in Munich (TUM), Germany. She spent one year as postdoctoral fellow at Boston University in the US analysing the age-dependent risk of Alzheimer Disease in first–degree relatives, and acquiring the techniques of molecular genetics and linkage analysis. In 2000, she completed her postgraduate clinical training and received the Bavarian fellowship in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.

Dr. Lautenschlager can be contacted at ipaj-ed@unimelb.edu.au.

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