Dr. Matt Paradise

Biography

Dr. Matt Paradise is a Visiting Fellow at the Medicine & Health Centre, focusing on Healthy Brain Ageing. He is an Old Age Psychiatrist and Researcher with a specialization in Neuroimaging and Neuropsychiatry within the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA). He completed his PhD on vascular cognitive impairment and neuroimaging under the supervision of Professor Perminder Sachdev, Co-Director at CHeBA, and received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses. He holds a Masters in Psychiatric Research from University College London (UCL). Dr. Paradise has published over 20 papers in high-impact journals, achieving an h-index of 13 as of August 2022. His research interests encompass late-life depression, mild cognitive impairment, cerebrovascular imaging, and dementia service development aiming for dementia risk reduction. He serves as a Senior Research Fellow and clinical advisor for the Memory Clinic Initiative within the Australian Dementia Network (ADNet). In 2016, he received a grant from the Dementia Centre Research Collaboration to develop an MRI-based cerebrovascular pathology index to improve diagnostic procedures. In 2018, he was the inaugural recipient of the Josh Woolfson Memorial Scholarship to investigate modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and to develop intervention strategies for at-risk individuals. Dr. Paradise is a strong advocate for older adults and works clinically as a Senior Staff Specialist at Concord Hospital and a Senior Visiting Medical Officer at Coffs Harbour.

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