Professor Matthew Kiernan

I'm glad there's a focus on brain health because it's really going to be an evolution.

And in fact, the reason I did get into neurology was, you know, George Bush Sr.

saying that the 90s were the decade of the brain.

And the brain has been left behind a little bit.

And now we're starting to understand these conditions.

And we're going to be like the cardiologists of the 90s.

We're going to understand risk factors.

We're going to be titrating blood biomarkers.

We've got effective therapies.

And it's going to be totally transformational.

The joke about neurologists were they're really good at making a diagnosis, but they don't do any treatment.

So you go to the neurologist to get your diagnosis and prepare your will.

That was that.

That's the prejudice against us poor old neurologists.

But dare I say it, we're going to a therapeutic era and it's really exciting.

Yeah, so the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, and that includes Prince of Wales, St George and Sutherland.

How many people have you got in here right now?

So about 550 researchers focusing on brain health and mental health.

It's amazing.

And I encourage everyone to come out and visit like you've done.