Speaker Profile ... Michael Perdices

Michael Perdices is a neuropsychologist with more than 20 years clinical and research experience and has over 30 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He trained at the University of Melbourne, under the tutelage of Dr Kevin Walsh. Dr Perdices' research has focused upon neuropsychological and neuropathological profiles in persons with alcohol-related brain damage, neuropsychological and psychiatric features of HIV/AIDS and, more recently, upon evidence based practice in rehabilitation.

Dr Perdices has extensive experience in the assessment and diagnosis of neuropsychiatric disorders. For the last eight years he has been a Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist at Royal North Shore Hospital, working with a broad spectrum of acute neurological and neurosurgical patients. Dr Perdices is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine and in the Department of Psychology at the University of Sydney. He has been the academic supervisor for postgraduate students in both Departments, and taught the Applied Psychometrics course for three years in the Master of Psychology course at the University of Sydney. Dr Perdices has been a member of ASSBI since 1983 and a member of the Royal North Shore Hospital Human Research Ethics Committee since 1998.

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