Steven Collins, MD - Neurologist
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Affiliation(s):
The University of Melbourne
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Areas of Interest:
prion diseases, translational AD research
Biography & Research:
I am a neurologist appointed to the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Neurological Research, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. I graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Melbourne, and undertook clinical neurological training in Melbourne and Adelaide before undertaking post-graduate research studies in mitochondrial diseases. I then completed post-doctoral fellowships in clinical neurology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota and electromyography at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. As part of my current clinical responsibilities I head the memory clinic at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne and teach and lecture medical students, post-graduate medical trainees, and neurology advanced trainees. I also head the Mitochondrial DNA Diagnostic Laboratory, at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, which is a NATA accredited, national diagnostic referral laboratory. I am also Director of the Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry (ANCJDR), and hold a position of Professorial Fellow in the Department of Medicine, the University of Melbourne. I also hold a National Health & Medical Research Council Practitioner Fellowship. Stemming from my role as Director of the ANCJDR, I have been a member of a number of national committees (most notably, the Transmissible Spongifrom Encephalopathy Advisory Committee.) advising on a range of issues, including clinical and infection control matters, for CJD and related disorders. The ANCJDR is the national referral service for diagnostic testing of CSF for 14-3-3 proteins, which I developed and implemented. Since 1997, I have overseen, coordinated and represented the participation of the ANCJDR in a large international CJD surveillance program (EUROCJD). Through the ANCJDR I undertake both epidemiological and basic scientific research into prion diseases and supervise a number of post-doctoral fellows and PhD students.
