A/Prof Mastura Monf is a neurologist / neuroimmunologist with a laboratory-based PhD in neuroinflammation. She works a clinician scientist. She is a neurologist at Alfred Health and research scientist at Monash University Department of Neuroscience. She leads the neuroimmunology service at Alfred Health, and her clinical expertise is in Autoimmune Encephalitis, CART cell related neurotoxicity, Multiple Sclerosis and other central inflammatory disorders. She also leads the Neuroimmunology, Neuroinflammation and Neuro-oncology Lab at Monash University Department of Neuroscience with key focus on innate immunity and biomarkers of neuroinflammatory disease outcomes. She is the Chair of the Australian Autoimmune Encephalitis Consortium and today will be presenting work conducted on behalf of the group.