Associate Professor Michelle Anne Farrar

Michelle Farrar is an Associate Professor in Paediatric Neurology at UNSW Sydney and specialist child neurologist at Sydney Children’s Hospital, leading the Neuromuscular clinical and research programs.

Michelle’s team is focused on developing and translating innovative ways of providing the best possible care from the time of diagnosis, through treatment and beyond to people with neuromuscular, neurodevelopmental or rare neurogenetic diseases. The research program also integrates interdisciplinary genomics research, together with community and consumer involvement.

Current roles include:

• Lead, Neuromuscular Diseases Clinical and Research Program, Sydney Children’s Hospital.
• Research lead (Clinical Neurology) NSW/ACT Newborn Screening Pilot for neuromuscular disorders

Society Memberships & Professional Activities:

• Member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists
• Member of the Australia and New Zealand Child Neurology Society
• Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
• Treat NMD Neuromuscular Network
• Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists Educational and Training EEG and Clinical Neurophysiology Committee member
• Australian and New Zealand Child Neurology Society, Scientific meeting organising committee member (2019)
• Australian Neuromuscular Network Clinical Care Steering Group
• Sydney Children’s Hospital Scientific Advisory Committee member for the Human Research Ethics Committee
• Australian Neuromuscular Diseases Registry, clinical lead for SMA and advisory committee member
• Neurodevelopment Australia, Steering Committee member
• Motor Neurone Diseases Research Institute of Australia Beryl Bayley Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2019)