Vicki Anne Anderson PhD, MA

Professor Anderson is a paediatric neuropsychologist, working across clinical, research and academic sectors. She is the Director of Psychology at The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, and Director, Clinical Sciences Research, Murdoch Children's Research Institute. She is an Australian National Health and Medical Research Senior Practitioner Fellow and a University of Melbourne Professorial Fellow (Psychology & Paediatrics).

Her primary research and clinical interest focus on improving outcomes from early childhood brain disorders. Her research team, The Australian Centre for Child Neuropsychology Studies, has contributed to this field over 25 years, establishing the vulnerability of the young brain to injury and working to better understand factors contributing to resilience and vulnerability in young children. Her recent work has built upon evidence for the importance of the family in maximising recovery from a childhood injury and illness, and her team is exploring parent-focused e-health interventions as a means of maximising child outcomes and improving family function. Major translational achievements include: i) publication of the Test of Everyday Attention for Children, used by psychologists across the world; ii) development of easily accessed, low burden, e-health approaches to parent-focused psychosocial treatments as a means of maximising child outcomes and improving family function; iii) development of a novel, comprehensive iPad delivered assessment tool for social competence (PEERs: patent pending); iv) digital health tools for monitoring child post-concussion symptoms (endorsed in a partnership with the Australian Football league); and v) authorship of the first-ever international paediatric sports concussion guidelines of the International Consensus on Sports Concussion.