Russell Dale is Professor of Paediatric Neurology at Children's Hospital at Westmead and University of Sydney. He is an international leader in neuroimmunology with contributions to defining the clinical and radiological associations of autoimmune brain disorders with diagnostic biomarkers. He is increasingly focused on the role of the immune system in neurodevelopment, and the emerging concept of epigenetic neuroimmunology. Using high throughput technologies such as transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, he is defining cellular mechanisms in common diseases such as autism, Tourette and OCD. He has published 360 papers, and his google scholar H factor is 89, with over 30,000 citations.