A/Professor Colm Cunningham is Director of The Dementia Centre HammondCare, with an Australian and International team of over 200 staff. The centre’s priorities are building design, understanding the causes of behaviour, life engagement, models of care and end of life care. Colm has published extensively and has over 30 years’experience in older age care. Colm is a Conjoint Associate Professor at the University of NSW in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine and a Visiting Fellow in Dementia Design.
Professor Steve Macfarlane is the Head of Clinical Services at The Dementia Centre, HammondCare, where he coordinates a team of geriatricians and old age psychiatrists who provide support to the National DBMAS (Dementia Behaviour Management Advisory Service) and SBRT (Severe Behaviour Response Team) programmes. He is also the Chair of the Binational Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry for RANZCP Australia/New Zealand. He was the longest serving Director of Aged Care Psychiatry (8yrs) in Caulfield Hospital (Alfred Health) and also spent nearly 5 years as Director of Aged Psychiatry, Deputy Director of Psychiatry, Peninsula Health.
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