Perminder Sachdev AM MBBS MD FRANZCP PhD FAHMS is Scientia Professor of Neuropsychiatry,
Co-Director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) in the School of Psychiatry, UNSW
Sydney, and Clinical Director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) at the Prince of Wales
Hospital, Sydney, Australia. He is co-chair of the Australian Dementia Network (ADNeT) and
Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Vascular Contributions to Dementia.
His major areas of research are drug-induced movement disorders, brain imaging, cognitive
ageing
and dementia. He has published over 900 peer-reviewed journal papers and 6 books, including
one for lay readers (The Yipping Tiger and other tales from the neuropsychiatric clinic) and
a book of poems (A migrant’s musings). He was named NSW Scientist of the year for Biomedical
Sciences in 2010. In 2011, he was appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for
services to medical research. In 2018, he won the DARF-Yulgilbar Innovation Award for
dementia research. In 2022, he was awarded the Ryman Prize by an international jury for the
most significant contributions world-wide toward the health of older people.