Nicola Lautenschlager, MD
(Australia) Deputy Editor, International Psychogeriatrics

Nicola Lautenschlager graduated in human medicine in 1993 and received her postgraduate degree (MD) in 1994 from the Technical University in Munich (TUM), Germany. In 1995 she spent one year as postdoctoral fellow at Boston University in the US. In 2000 she completed her postgraduate clinical training and received the Bavarian fellowship in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. In October 2000 she moved to Perth, Australia and took up a position as Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Western Australia (UWA), School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. In July 2004 she was promoted to Associate Professor and in August 2006 to Professor. Since then she has been Deputy Head of School in the School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences at UWA. She is a member of the newly founded Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing. Since March 2007 Nicola is a fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and since August 2007 a member of the Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. She is co-director of a memory clinic and also conducts clinical work as a consultant in Psychiatry.

Her main research interests are mild cognitive impairment, early diagnosis of dementia and Alzheimer's Disease, risk factors for cognitive decline and health promotion and preventative strategies in Old Age Psychiatry.

Dr. Lautenschlager has been a member of IPA since 2001. In November 2006, she was appointed Deputy Editor of International Psychogeriatrics.
 

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