Prof Anneke van der Walt is an academic Neurologist with subspecialty training in multiple sclerosis, neuroimmunology and neuro-ophthalmology. She leads the MS and Neuro-ophthalmology Research Group at the School of Translational Medicine, Monash University, and serves as Director of the MS, Neuroimmunology and Neuro-ophthalmology Unit at Bayside Health/Alfred Care Group. 

Prof van der Walt completed her undergraduate training in South Africa before relocating to Australia, where she completed specialist training in Neurology and a PhD in Neuroscience under the supervision of Professors Trevor Kilpatrick and Helmut Butzkueven at the University of Melbourne. This was followed by postdoctoral training at the Melbourne Brain Centre, UoM (2013 to 2017). 

Prof van der Walt is Chief Operating Officer of the MSBase Foundation, overseeing a registry of over 140,000 patient records across 40 countries, and serves on the executive committee of the BigMS collaboration (>300,000 records). She holds editorial roles at the Multiple Sclerosis Journal (Q1, IF 5.2) and serves as a Lead Correspondent for the ECTRIMS Controversies Podcast. She has delivered over 60 invited lectures and 8 keynote addresses internationally. 

She has received substantial competitive fellowship and grant funding totalling over $34 million, with $17 million secured as CIA/CI from competitive bodies including two NHMRC fellowships.

With an H-index of 42 and over 5,000 citations, 69% of her publications appear in top-quartile journals. 

Van Der Walt Lab

Prof. Van der Walt's research program spans five interconnected areas: ageing in MS, digital and neuroimaging biomarkers, women's health in MS, real-world evidence from disease-modifying therapies, and neuro-ophthalmology. She co-developed MSReactor, a digital cognitive monitoring platform and leads Australia's only multidisciplinary Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension clinic. 

A/Prof van der Walt is also the Chief Operating Officer of the MSBae Foundation.  Her clinical roles include appointments as the Head, MSNI Unit and Neuro-ophthalmology Service at Alfred Health, Melbourne. 

Prof van der Walt has supervised 20 PhD students (11 to completion) and currently supervises 9 PhD candidates and 3 postdoctoral researchers. 

2019

• TRM006 Translational Neuroscience Masters Degree. Seminar: Assessment of the anterior visual system and role in translation in multiple sclerosis.

2018     

• Teaching of 3rd year medical students, CCS, Monash University.