Professor Graeme Jackson

MBBS, PhD

Professor Graeme Jackson is the Clinical Director of The Florey, a neurologist at Austin Health, and a Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne.

Professor Jackson’s research is in advanced MR imaging and epilepsy, and the classification and understanding of malformations of cortical development.

He has received the prestigious American Epilepsy Society awards for clinical research (2016) and the named Lombroso award and lecture (2020). He has received the 2020 distinguished research award of Austin Health and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia achievement award for highest ranked practitioner fellow (2008).

In 2021, as Chief Investigator of the Australian Epilepsy Project, Professor Jackson was successful in securing $30 million funding from the FRONTIERS program of the Australian Medical Research Future Fund to help transform the lives of people living with epilepsy, the largest single federal government investment made to epilepsy research in Australia.