ANZAN (AUS & NZ)Australian & New Zealand Association of Neurologists

AAN (USA)American Academy of Neurology

ABN (UK)Association of British Neurologists

RANZCORoyal Australian & New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists

ARVOAssociation for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

ECVPEuropean Conference on Visual Perception

ISCEVInternational Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision

SFNSociety For Neuroscience

Vision ScienceAn Internet Resource for Research in Human and Animal Vision

VSSVision Sciences Society

VCRNVictorian Clinician Research Network

 

	Associate Professor Isla Williams Associate Professor Williams trained in Neuro-Ophthalmology and Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, U.K., at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, U.K. and at the Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Harvard University Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. She was awarded an MD in 1976 for her study of the “Microcirculatory events in the retina and their significance in damage to the central nervous system during open heart surgery”. During this time in the Monash University Department of Medicine at the Alfred Hospital she continued to work with Professor David Cogan and Professor T. Kuwabara and with Professor E.P. Richardson in the USA and at the University of Melbourne with Dr. Merrillees. In 1991 with Professor David Dewhurst, University of Melbourne, and Dr. Pam Dickinson, she developed the Eye Movement Clinical Research Laboratory at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. This has subsequently become part of the Monash University Department of Medicine at the Alfred Hospital and the Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, to both of which A/Professor Williams is appointed. She is currently involved in ocular motor research to measure visual attention. A/Professor Williams and her colleagues have developed a paradigm which measures the change in optokinetic nystagmus when subjects divide their attention between the fixation point and a moving stimulus; this will be used to study visual attention in neurodegenerative disorders and ageing. She is President of the Neuro-Ophthalmology Society of Australia and practises Neuro-ophthalmology in Melbourne.
	Associate Professor Christian Lueck Consultant Neurologist and Neuro-Ophthalmologist The Canberra Hospital and the Australian National University A/Prof Lueck trained in neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, U.K., and practised as a Consultant Neurologist in Edinburgh, UK, for 9 years before moving to Canberra, Australia where he is now Senior Staff Specialist, and Head of the Department of Neurology at the Canberra Hospital. He obtained neuro-ophthalmologic training at Maida Vale Hospital, Queen Square, and Moorfields in the UK, He was awarded a Ph.D. in 1991 for work with Professor Chris Kennard on oculomotor disorders of patients with disorders of the basal ganglia. During this time he also worked with Professor Semir Zeki to demonstrate in vivo evidence for the specialised colour and motion areas (V4 and V5) of the human visual cortex. He is currently involved with research into multifocal visual evoked responses with Dr. Ted Maddess at the ANU, and is setting up an oculomotor research laboratory at the Canberra Hospital to investigate the phenomena of ageing and neurodegeneration.
	Dr. Larry Abel Senior Lecturer, Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, University of Melbourne Dr. Abel received his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1971, 1972 and 1976, respectively. His BSc and MSc were in electrical engineering, whilst the PhD was a joint degree in electrical engineering and bioengineering. His thesis work involved application of nonlinear systems identification techniques to the human contrast perception mechanism. Dr. Abel’s post-doctoral work was in eye movement control and was carried out through the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and the Miami Veterans Hospital in Miami, Florida, in the laboratory of Drs. Robert Daroff and Louis Dell’Osso. His academic appointments have been to departments of neurology, biomedical engineering, ophthalmology, orthoptics and optometry. He may be the only person to have had primary appointments in all three ocular disciplines! His research interests include congenital nystagmus and other ocular oscillations. They also include the effects of normal ageing and of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and motor neurone disease on eye movement control. Originally from the United States, Dr. Abel took a position at La Trobe University in 1996 and then moved to his current position in 2004.
	James Cockburn Chief Information Officer O'Brien Group of Companies James received his BSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Northumbria, England in 1988 and later the same year left his home town of Edinburgh and migrated to Australia to pursue a career in software development. His early adoption of the Internet as a commercial software platform in 1995 proved fruitful and gained him a position as the senior software architect for a burgeoning software company specialising in web applications, a position he held for eight years. Now the Chief Information Officer for the O'Brien Group, James brings both commercial and technical experience to neuroVision.
	Associate Professor Jason Mattingley Coming soon.
	Peter Nevile Peter is a commercial lawyer with some 34 years experience. He acts for a broad range of commercial clients both in Australia and offshore from various countries including United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey and Indonesia. His advice to these clients includes advice on identifying and setting up appropriate corporate structures, the drafting of agreements for start up ventures, joint ventures negotiations and agreements in foreign jurisdictions, intellectual property, information technology, and distribution agreements with experience across a range of commercial transactions. Recent examples include the provision of a Memorandum of Understanding and advice on an appropriate structure for the development of a Flour Mill in Victoria as a tripartite joint venture between a Turkish company, an Australian developer and an investor. He is presently involved in the drafting of appropriate distribution and other agreements between an Australian fashion manufacturer and a Canadian distributor. His experience includes having been previously been engaged as a consultant by the Victorian Government, consulting to an Indonesian Production company sitting on an advisory committee to the Victorian Education department and he presently sits as an adviser on one of the academic boards at Deakin University. He has had a long involvement with the Australia Indonesia Business Council as the principal bi-lateral chamber of commerce, including a three-year period as the National President. His firm has acted since 2001as honorary solicitors to the group who are instrumental in setting up the neuroVision Foundation.