Kishore Kumar, PhD

Conjoint Associate Professor Kishore Kumar completed his medical degree at the University of Adelaide, and attained accreditation in Neurology from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He undertook a Neuromuscular Fellowship at the Royal North Shore Hospital and was trained in neurogenetics, nerve conduction studies and electromyography. He was awarded the P.K. Thomas Clinical Fellowship to the Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom, by the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists. He has a PhD in neurogenetics with work completed at the Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Sydney University and the University of Lubeck, Germany. He has over 100 journal publications, and is first author of a book entitled ‘Neurogenetics’ from the ‘What Do I Do Now’ series (Oxford University Press). He has presented at many national and international meetings. He is an invited reviewer for several international journals, and on the editorial board of the journal Movement Disorders. Dr Kumar was a NHMRC Early Career Fellow, and has been appointed a staff specialist at the Concord Repatriation General Hospital. He currently leads the GP2 leveraged study MonoPDAus (2.95 million AUD).