Associate Professor Lis Evered BSc, MBiostat, PhD, FANZCA (Hon)

Associate Professor Lis Evered (BSc, MBiostat, PhD, FANZCA (Hon)) is associate professor of neuroscience in anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, NY and Associate Professor, Dept of Critical Care, University of Melbourne.

Lis is an honorary fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. She has over 100 publications in cognitive clinical research and has been invited speaker to more than 100 international meetings. She is associate editor for BJA and senior editor for Anesthesia & Analgesia, and a reviewer for many peer-reviewed journals.

She is the recipient of more than $8 million in competitive funding. Her main area of research interest is untangling perioperative neurocognitive disorders (PND), with a focus on postoperative delirium (POD), short- and medium-term postoperative NCD and longer-term progression to Alzheimer's disease and related dementia's, known to be more common in this population of patients. This includes biomarker and intervention strategies to reduce or prevent these poor outcomes in older individuals.