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Carolyn Sue
Professor Carolyn Sue is a clinician scientist and an international expert in mitochondrial disease and movement disorders. In 2011, the Centre of Excellence for Parkinson's disease and Movement Disorders was established by Sue at Royal North Shore Hospital. Her main research area of focus entails on understanding the role of mitochondrial function in neurodegeneration, specifically on disease processes involved in mitochondrial disorders Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. She has written multiple books, book chapters, and has published over 170 papers. She is currently the Executive Director of the Kolling Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney and the Director of Neurogenetics at Royal North Shore Hospital.

Career and Research
Professor Carolyn Sue, MMBS, PhD, FRACP, AM graduated from University of New South Wales with a medical degree and gained her specialist qualifications in neurology in 1994. She then pursued a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney which she completed in 1997. She was awarded the NHMRC Neil Hamilton Fairley Postdoctoral Fellowship to start post-doctoral studies at Columbia University New York, NY under the guidance of Salvatore DiMauro. In the year 2000, she moved back to Sydney, Australia to set up her own research laboratory (The Neurogenetics Laboratory) at the Kolling Institute of Medical Research, where she is currently leading a team including five postdoctoral scientists, four PhD students, and two research assistants. Sue runs the country’s largest tertiary referral clinic for patients with complex neurogenetic conditions, including Parkinson’s disease, mitochondrial diseases and other inherited movement disorders. She was appointed as the inaugural Professor in Neurology at Royal North Shore Hospital, University of Sydney, and is also a Founding Director of the Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation, President-Elect for the Movement Disorder Society of Australia and New Zealand and Co-Chair of the Education Committee for the International Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorder Society. Sue was awarded the Order of Australia for significant services to medicine. Sue has been appointed to the high profile body, the National Health and Medical Research Council, for a three-year term until June 2024. In this dynamic group of Australian leaders, a record number of women are represented on the new council, including chair and internationally-renowned researcher Professor Caroline Homer.

Professor Carolyn Sue: "Being a scientist is in the DNA of every clinician and how to build a research question" (2019)