Simon Lewis is an NHMRC Practitioner Fellow and is the Director of the Parkinson's Disease Research Clinic at the Brain & Mind Research Institute. He has published over 150 peer review papers, two books and five book chapters and has attracted funding from the NHMRC, ARC and Michael J Fox Foundation to support his research interests targeting quality of life in PD.

Simon was previously on the Board of Parkinson's NSW. He led the nationwide 'DASH to the InfoLine' campaign aiming to raise awareness and reduce stigma in PD and headed the first trial to evaluate community based Parkinson's nurse specialists in Australia.