Dr Nancy A. Pachana

Dr Nancy A. Pachana is a clinical geropsychologist and professor in the School of Psychology, and is Director of Healthy Ageing and co-director of the Ageing Mind Initiative, at The University of Queensland. She has an international reputation in geriatric mental health and wellbeing, and has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and books on various topics in the field of ageing. Nancy was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2014. In 2019 she was awarded the M. Powell Lawton Award, the American Psychological Association’s Society of Clinical Geropsychology Lifetime Achievement Award. She is passionate about training and education in ways to optimise positive, healthy ageing.