The Secrets of Healthy Ageing – Healthy Nutrition

Join us to learn about The Secrets of Healthy Ageing and the Secrets of Healthy Nutrition.

Professor Cassandra Szoeke is one of our CSIRO Alumni members and is the principal investigator of the Women’s Healthy Ageing Project, the longest ongoing study of women’s health in Australia.

The CSIRO Alumni network is hosting a series of online talks with Professor Szoeke to delve further into the Secrets of Healthy Ageing.

The event will be hosted by Peggy Stasinos from CSIRO Strategic Global Partnerships, and she will help guide the discussion with a Q&A session at the end. The audience are invited to submit their questions online through the event portal.

This will be an online event. Once you register, you will receive an email with the link to attend the event.

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Professor Cassandra Szoeke

PhD, FRACP, MBBS BSc (Hons), GAICD, AMAM, AFAIDH. Centre for Medical Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital. Healthy Ageing Program, University of Melbourne

Professor Cassandra Szoeke is a Full Academic Professor, Clinician, Speaker and Author. As Principal Investigator of the Women’s Healthy Ageing Project, the longest study of women’s health in Australia, she authored the book Secrets of Women’s Healthy Ageing, which was highly commended in the Educational Publishing Awards Australia and Best-selling title in 100 years of Melbourne University Publishing in the genre of Medicine. She is a general physician, consultant neurologist and multi-award-winning clinical researcher.

She has several hundred published articles in the medical literature and several book chapters in medical textbooks. She has worked in the CSIRO, Public Hospital system and as non-executive board director for the Department of Health, including holding roles as Chair of Quality & Safety and Chair of Education, Training and Research Committees.

In addition to her medical qualifications and fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians she has a BSc with Honours in Genetics and PhD in Epidemiology, and her postdoctoral studies at Stanford University CA, focused on public health and policy. Her sabbatical at Oxford University focused on sex-specific medicine. She is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Digital Health and Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

She has held many significant academic positions and teaching roles for academic institutions and specialist colleges and has successfully graduated more than 60 higher research degree candidates since 2008.

She has represented Australia on several major international collaborative efforts including Australian clinical representative role in the world-wide Alzheimer’s Disease, Clinical lead on the Global burden of Dementia and on the science advisory of the International Women’s Brain Project and inaugural lead of the Asia Pacific node. She spent more than two decades working in Healthy Ageing at the University of Melbourne including more than a decade as Director of the Healthy Ageing Program at the University of Melbourne.

She has worked in the public and private health system in clinical, leadership and governance roles as board director appointed by the state health minister. She has contributed to development of national health policies, sat on the Council of the Australian Medical Association, was appointed to Medical Panels by the Department of Health (Victoria) and she has held Chief Medical Officer roles for the Australian Healthy Ageing Organisation and the National Council of Women.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cassandra-Szoeke
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/cassandra.szoeke.1/bibliography/public/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Healthy_Ageing_Project#

This event is hosted by the CSIRO Alumni network

The CSIRO Alumni network now has over 5,000 members and we encourage former staff to join and reconnect with one another. Cassandra highlights her work with one of our other alumni, Dr Peter Clifton (the well-known co-author of the CSIRO Total Wellbeing diet books) who was part of the Scientific Advisory for ‘The Secrets of Women’s Health Ageing’. They worked together with Peggy Stasinos within the CSIRO Preventive Health Flagship. As Cassandra says, “CSIRO forged friendships never die!”