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Dr. Peter Silburn

Queensland Brain Institute in Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Professor Peter Silburn is a neurologist and professor of clinical neuroscience at the Queensland Brain Institute in Brisbane and a world expert in the treatment and research of Parkinson’s disease. He was honoured for his ‘significant service to medicine as a neurologist, particularly in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases’ with appointment as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2013 Australia Day Honours.

He is a founding member and lead clinician for the Asia-Pacific Centre for Neuromodulation, a joint initiative between The University of Queensland and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital.

He graduated from the University of Queensland in 1988. He commenced training in Neurology at Princess Alexandra Hospital, and completed training in Oxford at the Radcliffe Infirmary in 1995. He was subsequently the Clinical Lecturer in Neurology at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

From Oxford, Professor Silburn went to the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm as a Research Fellow in the Department of Molecular Medicine. He became a full Professor in Neurobiology at The University of Queensland in 2006.

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