Professor Kate Drummond AM is the Director of Neurosurgery at Royal Melbourne Hospital and Head of Central Nervous System Tumours at the VCCC Parkville Precinct. Her research and clinical interests are in the biology and management of brain tumours, with special interests in advanced surgical techniques such as awake craniotomy, quality of life for patients with brain tumours and blood and imaging biomarkers (including liquid biopsy).

She has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers and many book chapters and has received more than $35 million in research funding. Her h-index is 41 and i10-index 96.

Professor Drummond is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Neurosurgery. She has served as Chief Examiner in Neurosurgery, Chair of the Women in Surgery Committee and on the Neurosurgery Surgical Education and Training Board for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, being awarded the RACS medal for these services. She is the President of the Asian Australasian Society of Neurosurgeons and is the 2^nd Vice President (AASNS) for the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. She is president of the Academia Eurasiana Neurochirurgica.

She is a strong advocate for and has written and presented widely on diversity in neurosurgery. She is Chair of Pangea Global Health Education, a for-impact organisation specialising in health education in low resource settings. In 2019 she was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to medicine, particularly in neuro-oncology and community health.