‘Genetic Contributions to ADHD’

Professor Sarah Medland (OAM, FASSA, FAHMS, PhD) is a Psychiatric and Statistical Geneticist working in Neuroimaging and Mental health genetics. Her work bridges Genetics, Psychology, Neuro-Imaging, Health Economics and applied Statistics with a focus on understanding the genetic and environmental contributions to human behaviour and disease. She chairs the genetics working group of the ENIGMA neuroimaging consortium and is an active member of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium.

In 2010, Medland received the Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Award from the Australian Institute of Policy and Science. In 2011, she received the Fuller & Scott Award from the Behavior Genetics Association. In 2015, she was awarded the Theodore Reich Young Investigator Award from the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics. In 2017, she received the Ruth Stephens Gani Medal from the Australian Academy of Science. In October 2019 Medland was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS). Also in 2019 she was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, while in 2020 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for “service to medical research in the field of genetics”.

In this talk Professor Medland will discuss all about the role of genetics in ADHD. How often ADHD is the result of Genetics. The latest research and the impacts of that. As well as nature and nurture and the interaction of the two.