Pamela Mccombe
Professor
Neurology
University of Queensland
Australia
Biography
Dr McCombe graduated in Medicine from UQ and completed a Science degree for medical students. She then trained as a neurologist in Sydney, at Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals. She obtained a PhD from the University of Sydney. She obtained experience in Neurophysiology in Cleveland and then returned to UQ as a post-doctoral fellow. She worked for some years as a research fellow in Neuroimmunology and was an NHMRc SRF. Later she resumed clinical practice as a neurologist, and contimued her research as an NHMRC Practitioner Fellow. She is currentlyProfessor and Head of the Royal Brisbane Clinical school in the School of Medicine and Co-head of the Brain and Mental Health Theme at the UQ Centre for Clinical Research.
Research Interest
Biomarkers in ALS This is a collaborative project wih Dr Rob Henderson, Prof Tony Pettit and Dr Gareth Ridall- looking at motor unit number estimation in ALS Inflammatory neuropathy This is an ongoing study of the immunological basis of acute and chronic inflammatory neuropathy Pregnancy and EAE this study will investigate the effects of pregnancy on the clinical course of EAE, an experimental disae that is a model of multiple sclerosis Immunology of stroke This study involves documenting the immune responses after human stroke and determining the significance of these responses.
