Simon Lewis

Professor Simon Lewis is a Consultant Neurologist and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Sydney, within the Faculty of Medicine and Health. He holds advanced qualifications including MBBCh, BSc, MRCP, FRACP, and MD. As Director of the Parkinson's Disease Research Clinic at the Brain and Mind Centre, he also serves as Clinical Director of the Ageing Brain Studies research group and heads the NSW Movement Disorders Brain Donor Program. His career encompasses extensive clinical practice and leadership in neurodegenerative disease research, including roles as an NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Clinical Lead for the Australian Parkinson’s Mission, supported by a $30 million MRFF grant from 2020 to 2024.

Lewis specializes in Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, freezing of gait, REM sleep behavior disorder, visual hallucinations, gait behaviors, lipid dysregulation, mitochondrial function, circadian rhythms, and the noradrenergic arousal system. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers, two books, and eight book chapters, garnering more than 27,000 citations and contributing to influential works such as 'Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies: Fourth consensus report of the DLB Consortium' (2017), 'Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies' (2019), 'Risk and predictors of dementia and parkinsonism in idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder: a multicentre study' (2019), and 'Research criteria for the diagnosis of prodromal dementia with Lewy bodies' (2020). He has attracted over $10 million in funding from NHMRC, ARC, and the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Notable honors include the 2014 Leonard Cox Award from the Australia and New Zealand Association of Neurologists for significant contributions to neuroscience. Lewis has impacted public awareness through the 'DASH to the InfoLine' campaign, GP education seminars across NSW and the ACT, and the first Australian trial evaluating community-based Parkinson's nurse specialists.

Professional Email: simon.lewis@sydney.edu.au