Meet our team of neurologists

Our specialised team of neurologists includes:

• Associate Professor Andrew Wong
• Dr. Alice-Ann Sullivan
• Dr Dan Truong
• A/Prof Lata Vadlamudi
• Dr Joel Corbett
• Dr Robert Henderson
• Dr Matthew Katz
• Dr Xiaohua Chen
• Dr Rajveer Singh
• Dr. Robert Adam
• Dr Stephen Walsh
• Dr Rebecca Kerr
• Dr John Phamnguyen

Associate Professor Andrew Wong

Director Neurology and Stroke MBBS PhD FAAN FANZAN FRACP
Associate Professor Andrew Wong has been a Brisbane doctor for over 25 years. His medical degree (1996) and PhD in the field of stroke (2009) were awarded by the University of Queensland. Besides RBWH, Dr Wong has also worked as a neurologist at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and Prince Charles Hospital. He  has worked continuously at RBWH since 2010, taking on the Director of Stroke role in 2010 and adding the Director of Neurology role in 2012. He has also been a co-chair of the Queensland Stroke Clinical Network since 2022.

Dr Wong’s major career focus is stroke  and neurology education. He has been President of the Australasian Stroke Academy (www.strokeacademy.com.au) since 2020, delivering stroke education to stroke physicians and physician trainees through annual meetings and other events. Closer to home Dr Wong is chair of the Qld Neurology Education and Training Committee for the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists (ANZAN) and is a frequent examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, neurology advanced training supervisor and advanced training research project assessor. With colleagues he convenes an annual Queensland Neurology educational meeting.

Dr Wong’s representative career includes membership of the Australian and New Zealand Stroke Organisation executive committee since 2022 (currently in the Secretary role),  and ANZAN Council membership. His research collaborations involve colleagues from interstate and overseas with wide interests within the field of stroke.

Clinically Dr Wong only practises stroke medicine at RBWH. He runs a small general neurology private practice for 6 hours per week, with a correspondingly long waiting list, and has been a visiting medical officer at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside (previously the Holy Spirit Northside Private Hospital) since 2008.

Dr. Alice-Ann Sullivan

Staff Specialist Epilepsy MBBS, BA, FRACP
Dr Alice-Ann Sullivan works in the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program as an epilepsy specialist. She obtained her medical degree in 1989 from The University of Queensland and in 2001 completed physician training in the field of neurology, spending a year at the University of Michigan Medical Centre in Ann Arbor Michigan USA as part of her training.

Dr Sullivan has worked at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital since 2006. Her main achievement at the RBWH has been the establishment of a first seizure pathway for the rapid assessment for patients referred from the emergency department and the community who have experienced their first seizure. Her interests include first seizure education and management and liaison of epilepsy specialist care with primary care. The first seizure clinic team currently collaborates with other Australian research teams into the optimum management of newly diagnosed epilepsy.

Area of interest:  First Seizure, Newly diagnosed Epilepsy

Dr Dan Truong

Staff Specialist Neurology and Epilepsy B.Sci, MBBS, FRACP
Dr Dan Truong works in the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program as an epilepsy specialist and is a staff specialist in the Neurology department at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.

He obtained his medical degree from the University of Queensland and completed physician training in the field of Neurology. Further specialised training was undertaken during his epilepsy fellowship at RBWH, where he obtained experience in complex epilepsy management as well as Level 3 EEG accreditation.

He has a wide range of clinical interests within the fields of epilepsy and general neurology and is keenly involved in the training of junior doctors.

A/Prof Lata Vadlamudi

Senior Staff Specialist Neurology
MBBS, PhD, FRACGP, FRACP, GradCertDiagnosticGenomics, FANZAN, FAES

A/Prof Lata Vadlamudi obtained her medical degree from the University of QLD and completed physician training in the field of Neurology. Further specialized training in epilepsy was undertaken in Melbourne, Sydney and the Mayo Clinic, USA. PhD was obtained from the University of Melbourne, entitled “The Genetics of Epilepsy: The Testimony of Twins”.

A/Professor Vadlamudi is a Group Leader of the Epilepsy Research Team at the University of Queensland’s Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR) with the main themes being Women with Epilepsy and Precision Medicine.  Webpage link: https://clinical-research.centrxe.uq.edu.au/vadlamudi-group.

A/Prof Lata Vadlamudi is also the Brain, Neurology and Mental Health Theme Lead at UQCCR and Vice-President of the Epilepsy Society of Australia.

Awards have included UQCCR Clinical Researcher of the year; Metro North Clinician Research Fellowship; Epilepsy Queensland Health Award for contributions to the medical care of people with epilepsy; and Leonard Cox Award from the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists for outstanding contribution to research in the field of Neurology.

Subspecialty interests include:

• management of women with epilepsy
• integrating genomics into clinical care
• women with epilepsy and precision medicine research

Dr Joel Corbett

Staff Specialist Neurologist MBBS FRACP
Dr Joel Corbett is a Queensland-trained neurologist working at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and The Prince Charles Hospital since 2021. His clinical work spans general neurology and acute stroke care. Dr Corbett is a member of the multidisciplinary Friedreich’s Ataxia clinic and has a specialist interest in cerebellar ataxia. He is a senior lecturer with the University of Queensland and is actively involved in medical student education and supervision of neurology advanced trainees.

Dr Robert Henderson

Staff Specialist Neurologist MBBS (Hons), FRACP, PhD
Dr Henderson has had experience in Stroke at the Robart’s Research Institute, and in Clinical neurology and Neurophysiology at The Mayo Clinic Rochester. He has been actively involved in neuromuscular research focussing on MND since establishing the RBWH MND clinic in 2006. Genetic, cognitive, and metabolic research into MND in collaboration with UQ and QUT is occurring along with active RBWH clinical trials in a range of muscular dystrophies, inclusion body myopathy, Pompe and other neuromuscular diseases.

Area of Interest:
Motor Neurone and other neuromuscular diseases with an interest in biomarkers and clinical trials

Dr Matthew Katz

Staff Specialist Neurologist MBBS, FRACP
Dr. Matthew Katz obtained his Medical degree through James Cook University. He completed his Neurology training in Queensland and went on to complete a fellowship in Movement Disorders and Neuromuscular Disease at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH). He works publicly as a Neurologist at the RBWH and Redcliffe Hospitals and also sees patients privately at the Wesley Hospital.

Dr Katz has an interest in clinical research having published several articles related to Movement Disorders and Neuromuscular Disease.

Dr Katz enjoys teaching junior doctors and medical students and also supervises Neurology trainees.

Dr Katz sees patients with all types of Neurologic disorders but has a special interest in those with Parkinson’s disease, tremor and neuromuscular disease. He performs botulinum toxin injections for patients with focal dystonias and also does neurophysiologic testing (NCS/EMG).

Dr Xiaohua Chen

Staff Specialist Epilepsy MBBS, PhD, FRACP
Dr Xiaohua Chen works as a full-time staff specialist in Neurology and an epilepsy specialist in the comprehensive epilepsy program at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s hospital. She obtained her undergraduate medical qualification at the Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Sciences in China and was awarded a PhD in brain structure and neuroimaging from the University of New South Wales in Sydney in 2008. Undertaking physician and neurology training in Westmead Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, she completed further subspecialty training in epilepsy with fellowships at Westmead Hospital and Prince of Wales Hospital. Her areas of interests include neuroimaging and stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) for the presurgical evaluation of drug-refractory focal epilepsy.

Dr. Chen is extensively involved in education, running a weekly EEG teaching session to neurology fellows and trainees, and supervising the neurology advanced trainees at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. She regularly tutors in the ANZAN and ASEPA EEG training courses.

Dr Rajveer Singh

Staff Specialist Neurologist< FRACP, MBBS, MD, DM (Neurology), MRCP (UK, SCE Neurology)
Dr Rajveer Singh is a Consultant Neurologist with extensive clinical and academic experience in Australia and India. He completed his MD and DM (Neurology) at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, and advanced Stroke and Neurology Fellowships at Gold Coast University Hospital and John Hunter Hospital.

He has previously served as Associate Professor of Neurology at PGIMER, where he trained postgraduate students and contributed to multiple research projects. Dr Singh has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and has broad experience in managing complex neurological disorders.

Subspecialty interests:
Stroke and cerebrovascular disorders
Movement disorders
Headache and migraine

Dr. Robert Adam

Staff Specialist Neurologist MA(Cantab) MBBS MRCP(UK)(Neurology) PhD FRACP FRCP(London)
Rob studied preclinical medicine and neuroscience at Cambridge University before moving to University College London to complete his clinical studies in 2001. After house jobs (internships) he moved to New York University Medical Centre where he was a “double boards” resident in neurology & psychiatry. He returned to the UK to complete his medical training as a neurology registrar in the Cambridge Deanery and completed a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at The Institute of Cognitive Neurology at Queen Square, using eye movements to study the effects of medication on decision making in Parkinson’s Disease and other conditions.

In 2013, Rob was made an inaugural ABN (Association of British Neurologists) Australasian fellow at The Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney and stayed on in Sydney as The John Morris Movement Disorders Fellow at Westmead Hospital, mentored by Prof. Victor Fung and training in Deep Brain Stimulation with A/Prof Neil Mahant. Rob moved to Brisbane in 2015 and has worked at The Royal Brisbane Hospital since then. He specialises in Movement Disorders and Cognitive Disorders. He set up the RBWH Deep Brain Stimulation service with Dr. Norman Ma, neurosurgeon in 2018. They have now treated almost 100 patients with Parkinson’s Disease, Tremor and Dystonia.

Rob also started Brisbane’s first young onset dementia clinic at GARU in 2016. This has now moved to STARS. He continues clinical research in neurodegenerative disorders and has been the principal investigator on trials in Huntington’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease. He was the clinical trials lead for ADNET in Queensland. He is a Senior Lecturer and Clinical Trials Specialist at The University of Queensland (UQCCR) and co-leads the neurodegeneration group.

Rob has a busy private practice, Auchenflower Medical Specialists (https://auchenflower.clinic) at the Wesley Hospital focusing upon movement disorders and cognitive neurology, and offering device assisted therapies including deep brain stimulation. He is also accredited at St. Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital and Brisbane Private Hospital.

Dr Stephen Walsh

Staff Specialist Epilepsy BAppSc, MBBS, FRACP
Dr Stephen Walsh works in the RBWH Comprehensive Epilepsy Program as an epilepsy specialist. He obtained his medical degree in 2010 from the University of Queensland and completed specialist training in neurology in Queensland, including an epilepsy fellowship at the RBWH in 2019. His clinical interests are in advanced epilepsy monitoring and ICU EEG.

Dr Rebecca Kerr

GP with Special Interest Epilepsy
Dr Rebecca Kerr is a General Practitioner with a special interest in Epilepsy, working within the First Seizure Clinic at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. She completed her Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) at the University of Queensland in 2004 and became a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP) in 2008.

Dr Kerr joined the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in 2018 and has since worked within the First Seizure Pathway team, assessing and supporting patients following possible first seizures. Through this work, she has developed further expertise in assessing first seizures, patient education, and the integration of primary and tertiary care for people with new-onset seizures. Her professional interests include first seizure assessments for patients, and enhancing the confidence of primary care clinicians in managing seizure presentations through involvement in educational initiatives aimed at supporting GPs and primary care teams in the recognition and management of seizures and epilepsy.

Dr John Phamnguyen

Staff Specialist Epilepsy BMSc, MBBS, FRACP
“Dr John Phamnguyen is a neurologist and epilepsy subspecialist with interests in complex and drug-resistant epilepsy. He holds appointments at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and the Mater Hospital Epilepsy Unit, and consults privately as an Epileptologist at the Brisbane Clinical Neuroscience Centre, where he also runs a dedicated outpatient EEG service. His clinical work includes video-EEG monitoring, presurgical epilepsy evaluation, intracranial EEG (SEEG), and the application of structural and functional neuroimaging to guide epilepsy surgery planning.

Dr Phamnguyen completed his medical and neurology training in Queensland and New South Wales before undertaking an Epilepsy Fellowship at Westmead Hospital, one of Australia’s leading centres for epilepsy surgery and intracranial EEG. He is currently completing a PhD at the University of Queensland’s Centre for Advanced Imaging, investigating the network organisation of tonic–clonic seizures and mechanisms contributing to SUDEP through integrated resting-state fMRI, structural imaging, and video-EEG biomarkers.

In 2026, Dr Phamnguyen will undertake advanced surgical epilepsy and stereo-EEG training at the Claudio Munari Centre for Epilepsy in Milan, a major international centre for invasive monitoring and complex epilepsy surgery.
He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland and contributes extensively to epilepsy and EEG education through the Epilepsy Society of Australia. He also serves on the ESA Research and Education Committee and is the Queensland representative for the ILAE Young Epilepsy Section (YES) Australia.
His professional interests include epilepsy surgery evaluation, intracranial EEG, advanced neuroimaging, status epilepticus, and SUDEP.”