
About Professor Carolyn Sue AM
Professor Carolyn Sue AM is the inaugural Kinghorn Chair, Neurodegeneration.
As an international expert in mitochondrial disease and movement disorders. Professor Sue has been running Australia’s largest specialised clinic dedicated to the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of patients with mitochondrial disease since 1994.
She is a medicine alum of UNSW who has trained at Prince of Wales Hospital and at Columbia University in the United States.
Prof Sue is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and serves on the Council of the National Health and Medical Research Council. She also holds leadership roles at Movement Disorder Society of Australia and New Zealand, International Parkinson’s disease and Movement Disorder Society and Australian Mitochondrial Disease Medical Network.
In her new position as the inaugural Kinghorn Chair, Neurodegeneration at NeuRA, Prof Sue also seeks to establish clinical trials centres for both Parkinson’s disease and mitochondrial disease patients and create a training centre for clinicians and scientists in the neurosciences who will become future leaders in neuroscience research, expanding on the collective achievements of NeuRA.