Watson-Achievements

Watson-Achievements

Selected achievements

Awards

2012 Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Career Investigator Award

2012 International College of Geriatric Psychneuropharmacology Junior Investigator Award

2011 International Psychogeriatric Association Junior Research Award

Grants

2020-2022 Developing an online portal for a dementia blood test. Alfred Felton Bequest. Co-lead investigator 

2020-2025 Combining memantine and cholinesterase inhibitors in Lewy body dementia treatment trial (COBALT), NHMRC-NIHR Collaborative Research Grant. Lead Investigator

2019-2021 Clinical utility of plasma neurofilament light chain in the diagnostic screening of psychiatric and neurological disorders. Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Rapid Applied Research Translation. Co-investigator 

2020-2022 S-adenosyl methionine for Alzheimer’s Disease. Alzheimer’s Association (US). Principal Investigator

Service to the community 

2017-current Member, Dementia Australia Research Foundation Scientific Panel (DARF) 

2016-current Member, Geriatric Medicine Education and Training (GMET), Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine (ANZSGM)