Professor Nicola Lautenschlager

Principal Investigator
nicola.lautenschlager@uwa.edu.au

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 took up a position as Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Western Australia (UWA), School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. Since her arrival in Perth, Professor Lautenschlager has initiated or participated in clinical research projects on various topics with a current focus on health promotion and preventative strategies in Old Age Psychiatry.

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. Since March 2007 she 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. Nicola is co-director of a memory clinic and also conducts clinical work as a consultant in Psychiatry.

Further information on Professor Lautenschlager, including her list of publications, is available here [ PDF 0.1MB ].