Staff CV: Jillian Kril

Professor Jillian KRIL, PhD

Contact Details
Room 491
Disciplines of Medicine and Pathology
5th Floor, Blackburn Building, D06
University of Sydney, NSW, 2006
Telephone: +61 2 9036 7118
Fax: +61 2 9351 3429
Email: jilliank@med.usyd.edu.au

Professional Biography

2006 -	Associate Professor, Disciplines of Medicine and Pathology, University of Sydney
2004 -	Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee, Australian Brain Donor Programs
2003 -	Honorary Neuroscientist, Department of Neuropathology, SSWAHS
2003-2006	Associate Professor (Geriatric Medicine), University of Sydney
2001-2002	Senior Lecturer (Geriatric Medicine), University of Sydney
2000 -	Honorary Associate Neuropathologist, (CRGH) SSWAHS
1997 -	Senior Lecturer, Department of Pathology, University of Sydney
1997-2001	Medical Foundation Fellow, University of Sydney
1997-2000	Assistant Director (Biological Research), Centre for Education and Research on Ageing, Concord Hospital
Jul-Nov 1995	Visiting Research Professor, Neuroscience Research Unit, Hopital St-Luc, Montreal, Canada
1994 -	Visiting Scientist (Neuropathology), St George Hospital
1993 -	Senior Research Associate, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute
1993-1997	Clinical Senior Lecturer, Department of Pathology, University of Sydney
1992-1997	Senior Scientific Officer (Neuropathology), Department of Anatomical Pathology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
1990-1991	Scientific Officer, Department of Anatomical Pathology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
1986-1990	Research Assistant, Department of Pathology, University of Sydney
1983-1986	Research Assistant, Department of Neuropathology, Royal Perth Hospital

Research Interests
Professor Kril's main research interests centre on the effects of ageing and dementia.

The neuropathology of ageing and dementia
Frontotemporal dementia
The neuropathological substrate of white matter hyperintensities

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Grants Awarded

NHMRC Enabling Grant "National Network of Brain Banks", 2004-2009 (Co-Investigator)
NHMRC Project Grant "Understanding the variation in frontotemporal dementia", 2004-2006
The Brain Foundation, "Neuropathology of white matter hyperintensities", 2004-2005
The Medical Foundation, "Brain donor program, annual clinical data updates", 2003-
Australian Brain Foundation, "In vivo mapping of anatomically distinct functional regions of the human cerebral cortex using high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging", 2003
The Medical Foundation, "Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies: How different are they?", 2003-2004
University of Sydney Major Equipment grant, 2003-2004
University of Sydney Sesqui Major Equipment Grants, 2002
NHMRC "Scoping Study of Ageing Research", 2001 (Co-Investigator)
NHMRC Project Grant "Non-Alzheimer dementias: Pathogenesis and clinicopathological correlations" 2001-2003
NHMRC Equipment Grants 2000-2004
NHMRC Project Grant "What contributes to regional vulnerability in neurodegenerative disease? A study of familial cases" 2000-2004 (Associate Investigator)
NIAAA, "Gene expression in the human alcoholic brain", 2000-2004 (Associate Investigator)
NHMRC Project Grant "The natural history of cognitive impairment and dementia in a stroke cohort", 2000-2002 (Associate Investigator)
NSW Institute of Psychiatry, "The neuropathology of depression in later life", 1999-2001
NSW Health Infrastructure Grant, "Dementia, cognitive decline and ageing", 1999-2001 (Associate Investigator)
Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund, "Genes regulating inflammatory processes and their role in dementia", 1999-2000
The Medical Foundation, "Correlates of brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease", 1997-2001

'Top 10' Publications

Kril JJ, Halliday GM, Svoboda MD, Cartwright H. The cerebral cortex is damaged in chronic alcoholics. Neuroscience 1997;79:983-998
Kril JJ, Patel S, Harding AJ, Halliday GM. Patients with vascular dementia due to microvascular pathology have significant hippocampal neuronal loss. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2002;72:747-751.
Kril JJ, Hodges JR, Halliday GM. Relationship between hippocampal volume and CA1 neuron loss in brains of humans with and without Alzheimer’s disease. Neurosci Lett 2004;361:9-12
Hodges JR, Davies RR, Xuereb JH, Casey B, Broe M, Bak TH, Kril JJ, Halliday GM. Clinicopathological correlates in frontotemporal dementia. Ann Neurol 2004;56:399-406.
Halliday GM. Song YJC, Lepar G, Brooks WS, Kwok JB, Kersaitis C, Gregory G, Shepherd CE, Rahimi F, Schofield PR, Kril JJ. Pick bodies in a family with presenilin-1 Alzheimer’s disease. Ann Neurol 2005:57:139-143.
Shepherd CE, Gregory GC, Vickers JC, Brooks WS, Kwok JBJ, Schofield PR, Kril JJ, Halliday GM. Positional effects of presenilin-1 mutations on tau phosphorylation in cortical plaques. Neurobiol Dis. 2004;15:115-119

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Prizes & Awards Received

1979	Head Girl, Eastern Goldfields SHS
1979	Dux, Eastern Goldfields SHS
1992	Bayer Diagnostics Prize for Best Thesis in 1991, Dept of Pathology, Uni Sydney
1994	Harding Burns Prize (for study on Clinical Scientific aspects of Alcoholism)
1999	Concord Clinical Week Research Presentation Prize
1999	AW Campbell Prize from the Australian Neuroscience Society (for the most significant contribution to Neuroscience in the first five postdoctoral years)

Current Students
PhD Supervisor:
Dr Raymond Schwartz (p/t)
Ms Janet Van Eersel

2009 Honours Student
Ms Karen Pok

Professional Memberships

2005 - present	Chair, PhD Award Sub-committee of Graduate Studies Committee, University of Sydney Graduate Studies Committee, University of Sdyney Research training sub-committee of Graduate Studies Committee, University of Sydney President, Australian & New Zealand Society for Neuropathology
2005-2006	College Health Sciences “Ageing and Health” Research Committee, University of Sydney CBPGS representative, College of Health Sciences Research Committee, University of Sydney
2004	Program Committee, Alzheimer’s Australia National Conference
2003 - present	Council member, International Society for Neuropathology
2002-2003	Combined Degree Committee, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
2001-2005	Board of Postgraduate Studies, Faculties of Dentistry, Medicine & Pharmacy, University of Sydney Research Committee, CSAHS (CRGH)
2000 -	Member – Australian Association of Gerontology Member, RM Gibson Scientific Research Fund Committee Australian Association of Gerontology
2000 & 2003	Student Poster Judging Committee, Aust Neuroscience Society
2000-2003	Honorary Secretary & Treasurer, Australian & NZ Society for Neuropathology
2000	Research Candidature Working Party, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
1999-2003	Research Committee, ANZAC Health & Medical Research Foundation
1999-2000	Joint Organiser, 2nd Sydney Region Alzheimer’s Meeting
1999	Research Review Working Party, CSAHS (CRGH)
1997-	Council Member, Ageing and Alzheimer’s Research Foundation Vice-president 1999–2005 President 2005-2006
1997	NH&MRC Brain Network Assessment Committee
1996 & 2000-03	Organiser, Annual Meeting of Australian and NZ Society for Neuropathology
1996-1998	Member - Research Society for Alcoholism
1995-2000	Working Party on the Role of Anti-inflammatory drugs and Alzheimer's Disease, Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Foundation, University of Sydney
1995-1996	Deputy Chair, Board of Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
1994-1996	Board of Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney Research Committee, Department of Pathology, University of Sydney
1993-1996	Advisory Committee, Department of Anatomical Pathology, RPAH
1993-1994	Chair, Research Committee, Department of Pathology, University of Sydney
1992-1994	Member, Local Organising Committee, ISBRA 7
1991-	Member - Aust & New Zealand Society for Neuropathology Member - International Society for Neuropathology
1985-	Member - Australian Neuroscience Society
1983-1992	Member - Australian Society for Medical Research