Professor Elizabeth Beattie PhD, RN, FGSA
Professor of Aged and Dementia Care, Director of the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre: Carers and Consumers and Director of the Queensland Dementia Training Study Centre in the School of Nursing at Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
Elizabeth has a strong background in mental health and geriatric nursing with extensive experience in clinical practice, teaching and research developed in Australia, the UK and the US. Her primary research interests lie in the area of prevention of negative functional outcomes of behavioural issues in dementia, and in carer support, stigma, quality of life and decisional capacity