Carolyn M. Sue

Professor Carolyn Sue, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, is an internationally recognised clinician-scientist, a leader in Parkinson’s and mitochondrial disease. She is the inaugural Kinghorn Chair, at Neuroscience Research Australia and University of New South Wales, Sydney. Professor Sue is a medicine alum of UNSW who trained at Prince of Wales Hospital and at Columbia University in the United States. Professor Sue was the inaugural Chair of Neurology at Royal North Shore Hospital, and the first female Professor of Neurology in Australia. She became Head of the Departments of Neurogenetics and Neurology at Northern Sydney Local Health District, while also leading Royal North Shore Hospital’s clinic for Mitochondrial disease patients – the largest Mitochondrial disease clinic in Australia. She is the immediate past Executive Director of the Kolling Institute, where she positioned the institute as a centre of world-leading translational research excellence. Carolyn’s experience, expertise and contribution have been widely recognised. She 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 is the current President of the Movement Disorder Society of Australia and New Zealand and Founder and Director of the Australian Mitochondrial Disease Medical Network. In 2019, Carolyn was awarded a member of the Order of Australia (AM) in recognition of her significant services to medicine, particularly mitochondrial disease.