Richard Leventer PhD

Prof. Leventer is a paediatric neurologist and a researcher in the neurosciences group of the MCRI. He received his medical training at Monash University (including a BMedSci in biological psychiatry) and trained in general paediatrics and paediatric neurology at the Royal Children's Hospital. He then completed a two-year fellowship in clinical paediatric neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis followed by two years as Research Associate in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, working in the laboratory of Professors David Ledbetter and William Dobyns as a research associate on the Brain Malformation Research Project. He returned to the RCH as a Consultant Neurologist in July 2001. In October 2007 he received his PhD on the topic of human cortical malformations focussing on polymicrogyria. A/Prof Leventer is the immediate past president of the Australia and New Zealand Child Neurology Society.