Elsdon Storey

{{Short description|Australian neurologist}}

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Elsdon Storey {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} is an Australian neurologist, former Rhodes Scholar[https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=ZwERAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s5IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4610,6016870&dq=elsdon-storey&hl=en Doctor wins Rhodes Scholarship] & Professor of Neurology at Monash University.[https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=ZwERAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s5IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4610,6016870&dq=elsdon-storey&hl=en The benefits of a tipple or two] His clinical and research interests are in neurogenetics (especially the hereditary ataxias) and behavioural neurology (especially the dementias).

After clinical neurology training in Oxford and Melbourne, and research training at Oxford, Massachusetts General Hospital and with Colin Masters at Melbourne University, Storey was appointed as the first Van Cleef Roet Professor of Neuroscience at Monash in 1996. He is also Head of the Alfred Neurology Unit. He is on the Council of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists as Neurology Co-Editor of their official Journal (the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience), and the Boards of the Brain Foundation, Neurosciences Victoria, and the Bethlehem-Griffiths Foundation.

In the 2022 Australia Day Honours, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to medicine in the field of neurology, and to professional associations".{{Cite web|date=2022-01-26|title=Australia Day Honours List|url=https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-01/ad22_gazette_-_o_of_a.pdf|access-date=2022-01-25|website=The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia}}

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