Dr Xiaoping Lin is a researcher passionate about providing optimal care to older Australians and their families. She is a Research Fellow at the Clinical Outcomes data Reporting and Research Program (CORRP) (Formerly Registry Science and Research), Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. She has more than ten years’ research experience and has expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methods. Her main research areas are mental health, dementia, and health service development and evaluation. Being an immigrant herself, Xiaoping has a particular interest in research with people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds and has extensive links with the CALD community in Melbourne. Over the years, she has helped secure more than $700,000.00 research funding as a Chief Investigator, with 90% of these grants in the area of ageing and cultural diversity, including a recent Category 1 grant from the Alzheimer’s Australia Dementia Research Foundation. Xiaoping has an emerging track record of publications in peer-reviewed journals and is on the Editorial Board of Clinical Gerontologist.