Sheena Reilly

Biography

Professor Sheena Reilly is the former Associate Director of Clinical and Public Health and led the Hearing, Language and Literacy group at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. In July 2015, Sheena became Director of the Menzies Health Institute Queensland. Professor Reilly is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, the UK Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and of Speech Pathology Australia. She is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Australian Stuttering Research Centre, University of Sydney and Visiting Professor, Neurosciences Unit, Institute of Child Health (ICH), University of London. Professor Reilly received her B.App.Sc (Speech & Hearing) from Curtin University and a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine, University of London. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher and clinician at the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, London, before returning to Australia in 1999 and establishing a research program at MCRI focused on childhood language and literacy problems. Professor Reilly's strengths as a teacher, clinician and researcher enable her to play a key role in the integration of research into clinical practice. She is on the editorial board of five well-respected journals.

Research Interest

Neuroscience,Medicine and Child Health