Sarah E. Medland BA,PhD

Sarah is currently working on three main projects. Firstly, as chair of the genetics team of ENIGMA neuro-imaging genetics consortium, Sarah has played a leading role in large multi site studies identifying genetic variants influencing brain structure in healthy and disease-focused cohorts. Secondly, she is the PI of the censusADHD study, a large nation-wide cohort of children with ADHD in which she is collecting data on the health service usage, financial costs and the impact of ADHD on Australian parents. Thirdly, she is leading an international collaboration investigating the aetiology of the relationship between severe Morning Sickness and Depression.

Sarah Medland is a statistical geneticist working on mental health and neurological traits. She is the head of the Quantitative Genetics team at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research. She received her PhD in 2006 from the University of Queensland and was awarded a Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Thesis.

Sarah completed a Sidney Sax NHMRC Post-doctoral Fellowship in the United States at the Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics and in Australia at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research. In 2012, she was awarded and ARC Future Fellowship to further her work on the genetics of ADHD. In 2010 she received a Young Tall Poppy Award (Queensland) and in 2014 was awarded an Emerging research leader Visiting Professorship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.