Associate Professor Fiona Kumfor

University of Sydney, Director of Sydney Neuropsychology Clinic and Co-Founder of the Dementia Law Network

Fiona Kumfor is an Associate Professor and Clinical Neuropsychologist at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney. She has 15 years+ experience in the cognitive assessment of individuals with dementia and other neurological conditions (e.g., brain injury, stroke). She has published extensively on social cognition, emotional processing, and behavioural symptoms in dementia, with her work drawing on clinical neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, and behavioural assessment methodologies. In 2023 she co-founded the Dementia Law Network, an interdisciplinary initiative to advance research, professional practice and policy on issues at the intersection of dementia and the law.