Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit Professor Leanne Togher at the School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health at The
University of Sydney. I really enjoyed catching up on our lives and research and sharing advice about grant writing and mentoring. I also had a chance to chat with Dr Liss Brunner and Dr Rebecca Sutherland.
This was the first time I had been invited to visit since I left in 1999. Over the past few years the department has moved from their campus in Lidcombe to the Broadway campus. I visited the new Susan Wakil Building and had a chance to view the 5th floor containing staff and student hotdesks and lockers (it is an open-plan building), simulation suite, and on-campus clinic.
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| Sharynne, Leanne Togher and the painting of Elinor Wray, the first director of the first speech therapy course in Australia. This painting used to be by my office door when I worked at The University of Sydney. | |
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Simulation hospital ward
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Simulation baby
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Staff lockers
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Staff hotdesks
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Chatting with Dr Liss Brunner.
Leanne and I found our PhDs on the shelf in the department |
Professor Leanne Togher holds many roles:
- Professor of Communication Disorders Following Traumatic Brain Injury
- Senior NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Research Fellow
- Supervisor, Communication Sciences
- Executive Leadership Team, Brain and Mind Centre
- Director, speechBITE www.speechbite.com
- Director, Acquired Brain Injury Communication Lab
- Chief investigator, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Aphasia Rehabilitation
- Board of Governors, International Brain Injury Association
- International Board member, Journals Board, American Speech Language and Hearing Association (ASHA)
- Development Group Member for TBI, World Health Organization
- Chair, Editorial Board, Brain Impairment
