Gerard Byrne

Biography

Gerard completed his medical degree and an intercalated science degree in Sydney at the University of New South Wales and the Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals. Following an internship at the Royal Newcastle Hospital, he undertook two further years of general medical training at The Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane. He subsequently completed his five years of psychiatry training at The Prince Charles and Wolston Park Hospitals. His PhD in psychiatric epidemiology was undertaken at the University of Queensland under the supervision of Beverley Raphael AM. He has been Head of the UQ Discipline of Psychiatry since 2001 and Director of Geriatric Psychiatry at the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital since 1995. He a member of the Repatriation Medical Authority and, until recently, was on the board of directors of the International Psychogeriatric Association. He chairs the Research Advisory Committee of the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital. He is a member of the advisory board of the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research at the Queensland Brain Institute. He is a past chairman of the Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age (FPOA) of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and a former member of the RANZCP General Council. He currently chairs the RANZCP Sub-committee for Advanced Training in Psychiatry of Old Age and is a member of the RANZCP Committee for Training. He is a member of the Queensland Brain Bank Scientific Advisory Committee.

Research Interest

Synaptic Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease This project has been funded by the Alzheimer's Association (U.S.) and is being conducted in collaboration with Dr Rudi Tannenberg and A/Prof Peter Dodd in Dr Dodd's laboratory in the School of Microbial and Molecular Sciences.