About Laurie

Laurie Miller was trained as Clinical Neuropsychologist and received her Ph.D. from McGill University in Montreal. She was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Neurological Foundation in Auckland, New Zealand and spent two years there helping them to develop their surgical epilepsy program in the late 1980s. She subsequently worked as a Clinical Neuropsychologist in a specialist investigative epilepsy unit at University Hospital, London Ontario Canada and then in the Neurology Dept at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Australia. Over the course of her clinical career, she has assessed thousands of neurological patients and subsequently provided tips, feedback and memory strategy training to many of these.

With a strong interest in research, Laurie’s work has focussed mainly on the effects of focal brain lesions on memory as well as memory rehabilitation. In 1994, she was one of the founders of the International Society for Behavioural Neuroscience. For seven years, she served as a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council’s multimillion dollar Centre Excellence Grant into Cognition and Its Disorders. Prof Miller has published 96 articles and book chapters, supervised more than 50 students’ research projects and been involved in some 200 conference presentations. In 2010, along with colleagues, she published the book: Making the Most of your Memory Training Program. With the Materialising Memories team at UTS, she has helped to guide product design research as a way of gathering more information about how memory works and ways in which it can be enhanced.

Laurie is currently working as a cofounder and content director of MEMORehab (an Australian company that has created a digital memory training program), and both an affiliate of the Medical School at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology of Sydney (UTS) Materialising Memories Lab.