Professor Lindy Jeffree studied medicine at the University of Melbourne and the Royal Melbourne Hospital before completing her neurosurgical training in New South Wales. She completed post fellowship training in cerebrovascular surgery at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney and in Paediatric Neurosurgery at the Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades in Paris. Dr Jeffree is a keen teacher and mentor to younger doctors, acting as demonstrator for the University of Queensland Advanced Anatomy courses, teaching neurological examination to resident doctors and supervising neurosurgical trainees. She holds a Master of Higher Education and is a Part II Examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. In 2024, she started at the Alfred Hospital as Director of Neurosurgery. Clinically her subspecialty interests include primary and secondary brain tumours, epilepsy surgery, hydrocephalus, Chiari malformations and syringomyelia. 

Dr Jeffree’s research training includes proteomics glioma research at the University of Sydney, an MSc in electrophysiology at the University of Montreal and a B Med Sci year in the Physiological Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
She is currently engaged in research to establish an Australian Brain Cancer Registry (MRFF Australian Brain Cancer Research Infrastructure Grant ID 2023943) and to use big data to improve Brain Trauma Care (PREDICT-TBI and Aus-TBI).
She has longstanding collaborations with translational researchers and collects biospecimens to support the Alfred Brain Tumour Bio-data.

Clinical supervision of medical students.

Brain Cancer Biobanking Australia (Chair)
Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology, Scientific Advisory Committee
Mission for Traumatic Brain Injury, Working Group on Acute Care

Alfred Hospital Public Outpatients

Neurosurgeon & Director of Neurosurgery, Alfred Hospital