Adjunct Professor Alison Mudge is a general physician and a Queensland Health and Medical Research Fellow. She is Clinical Director of Research and Education in the Internal Medicine and Aged Care Department, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. Alison leads a collaborative multidisciplinary research group committed to improving hospital and post-hospital care for complex older patients, with research interests in geriatric syndromes, malnutrition, exercise rehabilitation, depression, multi-morbidity and hospital readmissions. She also leads the Eat Walk Engage program, an evidence-based inpatient model to reduce delirium and enhance functional recovery in older inpatients.