Simon Lewis
Professor
Neurology
University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
Prof Simon Lewis is an NHMRC-ARCDementia Fellow who works as a Consultant Neurologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and is Professorof Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Sydney. He is the Director of the Parkinson's Disease Research Clinic at the Brain & Mind Research Institute and heads the NSW Movement Disorders Brain Donor program. He has published over 100 peer review papers, 2 books and 2 book chapters and has attracted funding from the NHMRC, ARC and Michael J Fox Foundation to support his research interests targeting quality of life in PD. In addition to this research, he previously sat on theBoard of Parkinson's NSW. He recently led the nationwide 'DASH to the InfoLine' campaign aiming to raise awareness and reduce stigma in PD andheaded the first trial to evaluate community based Parkinson's nurse specialists in Australia.
Research Interest
Dementia Parkinson's Disease
Publications
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Cross, N., Terpening, Z., Duffy, S., Lewis, S., Grunstein, R., Wong, K., Naismith, S. (2017). Association between Sleep Disordered Breathing and Nighttime Driving Performance in Mild Cognitive Impairment. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 23, 502-510.
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Trist, B., Davies, K., Cottam, V., Ortega, R., Roudeau, S., Carmona, A., De Silva, K., Wasinger, V., Lewis, S., Sachdev, P., Ball, H., Halliday, G., et al (2017). Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-like superoxide dismutase 1 proteinopathy is associated with neuronal loss in Parkinson's disease brain. Acta Neuropathologica, 134(1), 113-127.
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Muralidharan, V., Balasubramani, P., Chakravarthy, V., Gilat, M., Lewis, S., Moustafa, A. (2017). A neurocomputational model of the effect of cognitive load on freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10, 1-18.
