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Dr Judith Charlton, MSc, PhD, B Ed, MAPS, Dip Phy Ed

 Jude Charlton is Associate Director of Education and Research Training at the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) and is responsible for the PhD and research training programs offered by MUARC. Jude also manages the Behavioural Safety Science Research Program, responsible for older road user and child road safety research projects. She is a registered psychologist and has extensive experience as an academic in applied health sciences, with a research focus in brain-behaviour relationships, neuropsychological disorders and motor impairment. Her current research interests include the assessment of risk of older drivers, effects of medical conditions on driving, vision and fitness-to-drive, and child occupant safety.

She is currently managing a major competitive grant on vision impaired drivers and a large project on older drivers within the Auto CRC. These projects study the role of vision and cognitive functions in driving and use leading edge driving simulator validation and instrumented vehicles to examine the effects of vision impairment and age-related cognitive changes on fitness to drive in simulated and real-world settings. Since joining MUARC in 2000, she has authored more than 60 papers and reports in road safety. She supervises several PhD students and lectures post-graduate medical students in traffic medicine and road safety. Jude serves on several national and international committees, including the Australasian College of Road Safety (Victorian Chapter) and the Scientific Committees for the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM) and the European SIA V.I.S.I.O.N. Congress. She is a Director of BrainLink through which she contributes in a pro bono capacity to community services for people with acquired brain injury.

                                                           Updated 2nd June, 2008