Professor Vicki Anderson

contact details

Professor Vicki Anderson
Theme Director, Critical Care & Neurosciences
West, Level 4
Royal Children's Hospital
Flemington Road
Parkville Victoria 3052

T +61 3 9936 6738
E vicki.anderson@rch.org.au

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biography

Vicki is a paediatric neuropsychologist with over 20 years' experience. She started her career working at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, where she worked as a clinician, then as Coordinator of Neuropsychology Services, until taking up a lectureship at the University of Melbourne. In 2002 she was appointed Director of Psychology at the Royal Children's Hospital, and in 2005 she took up the position of Theme Director, Critical Care and Neurosciences Research at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. 

research focus & interest

Her interests are in disorders of childhood that impact on the central nervous system, including both developmental and acquired disorders. Her primary research focus is understanding the impact of traumatic brain injury for the developing brain, and in identifying ways of preventing and treating the resultant impairments. She has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, as well as two text books and has obtained competitive research grants totalling over $4 million. Her research group has recently established the Australian Centre for Child Neuropsychological Studies at the MCRI.

She serves as consulting editor on a number of prestigious international neuropsychology journals. She has served on the Board of Governors of the International Neuropsychological Society, and has had a long-term involvement, at an executive level, with the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment and has been President of the Society. She was recently made a fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.