Rate My Professor Stephanie Rainey-Smith

Associate Professor Stephanie Rainey-Smith earned a BSc (Hons) and a PhD in neuroscience from King’s College London in 2010. In October 2010, she joined Professor Ralph Martins’ team in the Centre of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease Research and Care at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, where she played a lead role in the Clinical and Preventative Strategies group. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Centre for Healthy Ageing at Murdoch University’s Health Futures Institute and holds an adjunct appointment at Edith Cowan University. Rainey-Smith is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and leads the Lifestyle Approaches Towards Cognitive Health (LATCH) Research Group.

Her research focuses on modifiable risk factors including sleep, diet, physical activity, and nutraceutical agents as potential preventative and therapeutic interventions for Alzheimer’s disease and healthy brain ageing. She employs multidisciplinary approaches that integrate these factors with clinical assessments, neuroimaging, and fluid-based biomarker outcome measures. Rainey-Smith contributes to major studies such as the Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle (AIBL) study and other national and international projects on lifestyle modifications and cognitive health. She has received recognition including the WA Tall Poppy Science Award and maintains a strong publication record in the field of neurodegenerative diseases.