Rate My Professor Perminder Sachdev

Perminder Sachdev AM, MBBS, MD, PhD, FRANZCP, FAAHMS, is Scientia Professor of Neuropsychiatry in the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), within the Faculty of Medicine & Health. He graduated from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, with an MBBS in 1978 and an MD in Psychiatry in 1983. After migrating to New Zealand and then Australia, he completed his PhD in 1991 on ethnopsychological concepts in Maori culture. His career includes serving as head and Clinical Director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) at UNSW Sydney, Research Director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute, deputy chair of the Australian Dementia Network (ADNeT), and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Vascular Contributions to Dementia. Sachdev has held leadership roles such as past-President of the International Neuropsychiatric Association, inaugural Chair of the Section of Neuropsychiatry of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, and past-President of the International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology. He leads major longitudinal studies including the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study, Older Australian Twins Study, and Sydney Centenarian Study, as well as international consortia such as COSMIC, STROKOG, and ICC-Dementia.