Director of Aged Care Research and Memory Clinic, Austin Health, Heidelberg.

Associate Professor Michael Woodward is Head of Aged Care Research and the Memory Clinic at Austin Health in Melbourne, Victoria. He is a specialist in geriatric medicine with major interests in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other dementias. He is Principal Investigator for numerous research trials of new therapies for AD and related disorders. He is a Board member of the national Dementia Australia Research Foundation, as well as one of the 3 Honorary Medical Advisors to Dementia Australia.
His other clinical specialties include Wound Management - he was President of the Australian Wound Management Association, now Wounds Australia, and Editor of their journal, Wound Practice and Research. He also has a major interest in vaccination of older people and quality use of Medicines.

He is a member of the DVA Repatriation Pharmaceutical Reference Committee (the DVA equivalent of the PBAC), and a member of the Editorial Committee of their MATEs program.
Michael Woodward’s publication record includes 160 original research and review articles, including 2 in the New England Journal of Medicine, and he has now delivered over 500 professional addresses and over 100 talks to the general public, as well as regularly discussing his medical passions in all forms of media. He was awarded his MD on the overlap between the dementia syndromes and how memory clinic data bases contribute to our understanding of the dementias. More recent research interests have focussed on characterizing the frontal (dysexecutive) variant of Alzheimer’s Disease. He is a Fellow of the Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG), of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine (ANZSGM), of the Australian Wound Management Association (AWMA - now Wounds Australia) and of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and has long served each of these professional bodies, including being President of AWMA for 4 years and of AAG (Vic) for 6 years. He was vice then for 6 years Chair of the Committee for Physician Training that oversaw the training of all RACP advanced and basic trainees, and now Chairs the Accreditation Committee of that College, responsible for accrediting all Australian Basic Physician Training sites in adult medicine.

On Australia Day 2016 he was honoured with the award of Membership of the Order of Australia (AM) for his work in dementia and geriatric medicine, his contribution to these numerous professional bodies and his body of publications and other writings.