Dr. Koblar is a senior consultant neurologist at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and a Senior Lecturer in Medicine at the University of Adelaide. His clinical interests are general neurology and in particular stroke.

He has an active research program in genetic risk factors and neural stem cell therapeutics in relation to stroke.

Dr. Koblar undertook his medical training at Flinders University and trained as a neurologist at TQEH and Guy’s Hospital, London, UK. His PhD was undertaken at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research in Melbourne. He was a research fellow at The University of Washington in Seattle, USA.

He returned to Adelaide in 1996 and combines a limited clinical practice with research and teaching. He is married to a General Practitioner and has four children.