Cassandra Szoeke

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Professor Cassandra Szoeke
NationalityAustralian
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne, Flinders University
Scientific career
FieldsNeurology and women's health
InstitutionsUniversity of Melbourne

Australian Medical Association Australian Healthy Ageing Organisation

National Council of Women of Australia (VIC)

Professor Cassandra Szoeke PhD, FRACP, MBBS, BSc(Hons), GAICD, AMA, AFAIDH is a leading Australian researcher and practicing physician in internal medicine, with a sub-specialisation in neurology.

Szoeke is the Director of the Healthy Ageing Program at the University of Melbourne and principal investigator of the Women’s Healthy Ageing Project, which is the longest ongoing study of women's health in Australia.[1][2]

Education

Szoeke earned her BSc(Hons) at the University of Melbourne, before completing her MBBS at Flinders University.[3] She was awarded a PhD in Epidemiology by the department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne.[4]

Her postdoctoral studies conducted between Stanford University and Duke University focused on Public Health and Policy with concurrent clinical training in cognition.[5]

She became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2001[6], and graduated from the Australian Institute of Company Directors in 2014.[7]

Work

For over 20 years, Szoeke has been the Director of Healthy Ageing Program at the University of Melbourne, which includes the Women’s Healthy Ageing Project – the longest ongoing study of women's health in Australia.[1][2]

She serves as Councillor for the Australian Medical Association, Chief Medical Officer for the Australian Healthy Ageing Organisation and member of the National Council of Women of Australia (VIC).[8][9][10] She is also Lead for the Asia Pacific node of the Women’s Brain Project.[11]

She was involved in the steering committees for several major Australian collaborative studies including The Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) and the Australian Imaging, Biomarker & Lifestyle Flagship Study of Ageing (AIBL).[12][13]

She is currently the Chief Editor of Frontiers of Global Women's Health and serves on the Editorial board of several other journals.[14]

Policy

Szoeke informed the development of the National Women’s Health Strategy for 2020-30 in collaboration with Federal Department of Health and Aged Care from 2016, and has been referenced in major policy reports by the World Health Organisation, Alzheimer's Disease International, RACGP, Melbourne Academic Centre for Health, and the National Academies Institute of Medicine.[15][16][17][18][19]

At a roundtable in 2020, Szoeke presented a Background Paper developed with the Australian Association of Gerontology, which was used to directly inform Australia’s Primary Health Care 10 Year Plan (2022–2032).[20]

Research

In 2021, Szoeke published the Secrets of Women’s Healthy Ageing (2021), which shared lessons from thirty years of data on women's health and wellbeing from Women’s Healthy Ageing Project.[21] The Educational Publishing awards Australia (EPAA) awarded the book a high commendation in the category of scholarly nonfiction book of the year.[22][23]

Sex differences

Szoeke's research showing that hormone therapy may prevent or delay the onset of dementia was published as a chapter in the first book to examine sex and gender differences in Alzheimer's disease (Elsevier, 2021).[24][25]

Her work as senior clinical author on a systematic analysis of dementia for the Global Burden of Disease Study in 2016 showed that more women had dementia than men at all ages, and was the first such work to report global prevalence of dementia by sex.[26]

Longitudinal research

The longitudinal nature of Szoeke's Women’s Healthy Ageing Project has been recognised by the journal Menopause as "one of its greatest strengths" in understanding factors that contribute to the onset of dementia and other diseases over a lifespan.[27] Szoeke's research demonstrates the benefits of targeting treatment towards women in midlife, as measures recorded over this stage are able to predict neuropathology decades later.[28][29][30]

Grandparenting

An editorial published by Menopause noted Szoeke's senior-authored publication on grandparenting was the "first data documenting both positive and negative effects of grandparenting on women’s cognitive functioning in midlife... Such research is important given the magnitude of demand for caregiving not only for grandchildren but also for older family members and friends who are frail or ill".[31]

Health technologies

Szoeke served as Clinical Lead on the development of the Brainy App, an initiative of Alzheimer’s Australia, in partnership with the Bupa Health Foundation running from 2011-2020.[32] In the first days of release in Australia and New Zealand, it was the #1 ranked app across all categories. In February 2012, 180,000 Australians had installed BrainyApp on their iPhones, with over 1 million user engagements.[33]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The WHAP Investigators; Szoeke, Cassandra; Coulson, Melissa; Campbell, Stephen; Dennerstein, Lorraine (December 2016). "Cohort profile: Women's Healthy Ageing Project (WHAP) - a longitudinal prospective study of Australian women since 1990". Women's Midlife Health. 2 (1). doi:10.1186/s40695-016-0018-y. ISSN 2054-2690. PMC 6300017. PMID 30766701.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Parletta, Natalie (2021-09-25). "'I would watch every episode': charting the 30-year study into Australian women's ageing". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  3. ↑ "Epic study provides crucial women's health insight". Alumni stories. 2022-07-26. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  4. ↑ "Prof Cassandra Szoeke". findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  5. ↑ "Center for Midlife Science: The MaryFran Sowers Memorial Lectures". midlifescience.umich.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  6. ↑ "RACP Foundation helps build research careers The story of Professor Cassandra Szoeke". RACP Quarterly. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  7. ↑ "Professor Cassandra Szoeke | Platinum Medico-Legal". www.platinummedicolegal.com.au. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  8. ↑ "IWD member profile: Prof Cassandra Szoeke". amavic.com.au. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  9. ↑ "Our Team". Australian Healthy Ageing Organisation. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  10. ↑ "Dr. Cassandra Szoeke". OM Health. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  11. ↑ "RACP Foundation helps build research careers The story of Professor Cassandra Szoeke". RACP Quarterly. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
  12. ↑ "ASPREE Healthy Ageing Biobank". Monash University. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  13. ↑ "Organizational Structure of AIBL" (PDF). Alzheimer's and Dementia.
  14. ↑ "Frontiers in Global Women's Health | Aging in Women". www.frontiersin.org. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  15. ↑ World Health Organization (2022). A blueprint for dementia research. World Health Organization. ISBN 978-92-4-005824-8.
  16. ↑ Brooker, Dawn; Peel, Elizabeth; Erol, Rosie (2015-06-01). "Women and Dementia: A global research review". Alzheimer's Association International.
  17. ↑ "What is the future of Australia's ageing and aged care research - Melbourne Academic Centre for Health". machaustralia.org/. 2021-01-15. Retrieved 2023-06-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ↑ Blazer, D. G.; Yaffe, K.; Liverman, C. T.; Committee on the Public Health Dimensions of Cognitive Aging; Board on Health Sciences Policy; Institute of Medicine (2015-07-21). Cognitive Aging: Progress in Understanding and Opportunities for Action. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press. doi:10.17226/21693. ISBN 978-0-309-36862-9. PMID 25879131. {{cite book}}: |author5= has generic name (help)
  19. ↑ "Guidelines for preventive activities in general practice" (PDF). RACGP. 8th edition.
  20. ↑ "AAG Background Paper- Primary Care and Older Australians - Australian Association of Gerontology". 2022-03-24. Archived from the original on 2022-03-24. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  21. ↑ Parletta, Natalie (2021-09-25). "'I would watch every episode': charting the 30-year study into Australian women's ageing". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  22. ↑ Mem: 10106640. "EPAA 2022 winners announced | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  23. ↑ "Secrets of Women's Healthy Ageing by Educational Publishing Australia - Official website". Educational Publishing Australia. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  24. ↑ Szoeke, C.; Downie, S.J.; Parker, A.F.; Phillips, S. (July 2021). "Sex hormones, vascular factors and cognition". Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 62: 100927. doi:10.1016/j.yfrne.2021.100927. PMID 34119528.
  25. ↑ Szoeke, Cassandra; Downie, Sue; Phillips, Susan; Campbell, Stephen (2021-01-01), Ferretti, Maria Teresa; Dimech, Annemarie Schumacher; Chadha, Antonella Santuccione (eds.), "Chapter 9 - Hormones and dementia", Sex and Gender Differences in Alzheimer's Disease, Academic Press, pp. 233–267, ISBN 978-0-12-819344-0, retrieved 2023-06-14
  26. ↑ Nichols, Emma; Szoeke, Cassandra E I; Vollset, Stein Emil; Abbasi, Nooshin; Abd-Allah, Foad; Abdela, Jemal; Aichour, Miloud Taki Eddine; Akinyemi, Rufus O; Alahdab, Fares; Asgedom, Solomon W; Awasthi, Ashish; Barker-Collo, Suzanne L; Baune, Bernhard T; Béjot, Yannick; Belachew, Abate B (January 2019). "Global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016". The Lancet Neurology. 18 (1): 88–106. doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(18)30403-4. PMC 6291454. PMID 30497964.
  27. ↑ Parry, Barbara L. (May 2017). "Beneficial effects of aging on mood in healthy postmenopausal women". Menopause. 24 (5): 475–477. doi:10.1097/GME.0000000000000849. ISSN 1072-3714. PMID 28225429.
  28. ↑ Aljondi, Rowa; Szoeke, Cassandra; Steward, Chris; Gorelik, Alexandra; Desmond, Patricia (February 2020). "The effect of midlife cardiovascular risk factors on white matter hyperintensity volume and cognition two decades later in normal ageing women". Brain Imaging and Behavior. 14 (1): 51–61. doi:10.1007/s11682-018-9970-5. ISSN 1931-7557. PMID 30259291.
  29. ↑ Szoeke, Cassandra; Lehert, Philippe; Henderson, Victor W.; Dennerstein, Lorraine; Desmond, Patricia; Campbell, Stephen (October 2016). "Predictive Factors for Verbal Memory Performance Over Decades of Aging: Data from the Women's Healthy Ageing Project". The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 24 (10): 857–867. doi:10.1016/j.jagp.2016.05.008. PMID 27562941.
  30. ↑ Szoeke, Cassandra; Coulson, Melissa; Campbell, Stephen; Dennerstein, Lorraine; WHAP Investigators (2016). "Cohort profile: Women's HealthyAgeing Project (WHAP) - a longitudinal prospective study of Australian women since 1990". Women's Midlife Health. 2: 5. doi:10.1186/s40695-016-0018-y. ISSN 2054-2690. PMC 6300017. PMID 30766701.
  31. ↑ Woods, Nancy Fugate (October 2014). "Grandmothering and health in midlife". Menopause. 21 (10): 1032–1034. doi:10.1097/GME.0000000000000331. ISSN 1072-3714. PMID 25203896.
  32. ↑ "BrainyApp". www.dementia.org.au. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
  33. ↑ "BrainyApp & Better Dementia Prevention » Regenerative Neuroscience Group". rng.org.au. Retrieved 2023-06-14.

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