Dare Shott Lecture returns with Dr Sarah Lee
For the first time since 2019, we are thrilled to see the return of the annual Dare Shott lecture in Launceston.
Now in its 20th year, this year’s Guest Speaker is Neurologist Dr Sarah Lee, who will be presenting on the topic of Huntington’s Disease.
The lecture will take place on Tuesday, November 21 at 10am at Peppers Silo Hotel in Launceston.
This is a free public event, but registrations are essential.
RSVP online here, email enquiries@cliffordcraig.org.au or call 6777 6010.
About the Guest Speaker
Dr Sarah Lee MBBS BSc FRACP is a cognitive and behavioural neurologist with expertise in the diagnosis, and long-term management of people with neurodegenerative and neurogenetic conditions, particularly atypical dementias, Huntington’s Disease, and motor neuron disease.
She is actively involved in research in her chosen field and was recently invited to SXSW (South by Southwest) Sydney to talk about her involvement in the SWITCH study, a first-in-man brain machine interface.
As an experienced clinical trialist and as part of the Huntington’s Service in Tasmania, she is working to attract Huntington’s Disease research and clinical trials to Tasmania.
She holds subspecialty consultant appointments with the North West Huntington’s Service Tasmania, Calvary Bethlehem Hospital, Barwon Health, and Monash Medical Centre and collaborates with both interstate and international clinicians, stakeholders, and researchers.
Additionally, she is part of both the Victorian and national Brain School teaching program for neurology Advance Trainees as well as the Victorian Palliative Medicine Training Program.
Dr Lee read Medicine at University College London and practiced medicine at University College London Hospital before migrating to Australia. She originally planned to pursue a career in Geriatric Medicine, but realised she was better suited to Neurology while training at Canberra Hospital.
In 2017, she was delighted to be offered a position with the North-West Huntington’s Service through the federally funded TAZREACH program.
About the Dare Shott Lecture
Many people will have visited the Old Umbrella Shop in Launceston.
The origins of this shop date back to 1906, when Mr Robert Shott moved into the building and began making and selling umbrellas.
There were three generations of the Shott family who continued the tradition of making and selling fine handcrafted umbrellas until 1979, when the shop was purchased by the National Trust.
Robert Shott had three children, none of whom ever married, and as each passed away, their modest savings passed to the surviving family members.
Thus, in turn, Dare Shott, as the last surviving member of the family, inherited a small fortune and passed that accumulated wealth to several charities through her last will and testament.
The Clifford Craig Foundation (then Medical Research Trust) was a beneficiary of her estate and to perpetuate the Shott family name, the Research Trust created the Dare Shott Memorial Lecture, which began in 1999.
The annual lecture was put on hold in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.