Professor Rosie Watson is a geriatrician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and a laboratory head at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI). Her clinical and research interests focus on improving the diagnosis and management for people with cognitive disorders. She has contributed to advances in dementia, especially in Lewy body dementia, leading the first Australian longitudinal clinical and biomarker study which has provided a framework for an Australian Phase 3 therapeutic trial in Lewy body dementia. She leads a multidisciplinary research team and supervises PhD students and post-doctoral researchers.