Prof Susan Kurrle AO

Sue is a geriatrician who is practising at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital in northern Sydney and in an outreach capacity at Batemans Bay and Moruya Hospitals in southern New South Wales. She holds the Curran Chair in Health Care of Older People in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. Her research and practice interests centre on dementia, frailty, elder abuse, geriatric outreach services, successful ageing, and intergenerational programs, and her work focuses on translation of research into clinical practice. She has set up memory clinics at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital and Batemans Bay hospitals, and leads the dementia clinical drug trials unit at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital. Her current research in frailty centres on identifying physical frailty in older patients in hospital, and developing interventions to address frailty which are then continued in the community after discharge in collaboration with the patient’s general practitioner. In January 2023 she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to medicine as a geriatrician, and to research into dementia and cognitive function.