Dr Amie Foran
Award for Excellent PhD Thesis in Psychology

Award type: Science

Dr Foran is an experienced clinical neuropsychologist whose PhD was entitled ‘The QuickSort: A brief screen for detecting cognitive impairment in older adults’.  Her research related to a brief new cognitive screen that she developed – the QuickSort – which was designed to improve upon existing sorting tasks. 

Dr Foran’s goal was to develop a brief evidence-based cognitive screen that was more effective and more efficient to administer than other commonly-used cognitive screens when trying to detect older adults with cognitive decline whose lifestyle decision-making capacity may have been compromised.  Paper-and-pencil (QuickSort) and iPad-compatible (QuickSort-e) versions of the screen were developed.  The former has been published, along with a detailed manual, and is freely available for use by clinicians.  The electronic version has been developed as a prototype and will be available to clinicians for use in the near future.

Dr Foran’s doctoral research has been published in three high-impact international peer-reviewed journals, presented at three international conferences, an invited address and at clinical seminars.  She has been awarded two research grants, a travel grant and a postgraduate scholarship for her research, and was Valedictorian for the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences graduation at the Adelaide University in 2023.

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