Dr Mark Walterfang
Dr Mark Walterfang MB BS FRANZCP
Consultant Neuropsychiatrist and PhD Student
Dr Walterfang graduated in medicine from University of Queensland with honours in 1993, and completed his Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 2000. He has been a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital Neuropsychiatry Unit since 2001. His past appointments have included Consultant Psychiatrist at the Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit at Sunshine Hospital (2001-02), Academic Fellow at The University of Melbourne Department of Psychiatry (2001-02) and Senior Research Fellow at the Mental Health Research Institute as part of a Stanley Foundation Centre Grant (2003-05). Dr Walterfang is currently undertaking a PhD investigating the corpus callosum and other white matter tracts in patients at different stages of psychosis, using
multiple MRI imaging modalities. His interest in white matter disorders has led to a number of clinical studies in neurological and neurodegenerative disorders such as Niemann-Pick Type C and adrenomyleoneuropathy. Walterfang has also played a leading role in the development and validation of a number of clinical tools (NUCOG, Cogrisk, BATCH) for the assessment of cognition and behaviour.