Dr Mustafa Atee is a Research and Practice Lead at The Dementia Centre/HammondCare, formerly served as a Research Fellow at School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, and as a Senior Research Scientist of PainChek Ltd. Mustafa is one of the co-founders of PainChek®, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered pain assessment tool using automated facial recognition/analysis, and clinical pain behaviours to evaluate the presence and intensity of pain in non-verbal adults, including those with cognitive impairment/dementia. The tool is a medical device regulatory cleared by TGA, CE, HSA and Health Canada. Recently, the tool received $5M from the Federal Government to conduct a national trial of PainChek® for Australians with dementia living in residential aged care homes. His work has been recognised in several state/national innovation, research, and technology awards in Australia such as the Innovator of the Year, Incite Awards, iAwards, AMY Awards and WA Premier’s Science Awards. Over his career Mustafa has received peer-reviewed and industry grants over $7M, including Dementia Australia, PainChek, CSIRO and Ramsey Health. In 2016, he was one out of 9 Australians who won the Creative Innovation Global Scholarship and was also selected as the Gold Disruptor/ICT Researcher of the Year at the Australian Computer Society’s Digital Disruptor Awards. Recently, Dr Atee has been the winner of the 2021 Curtin Alumni Innovation Award for his contribution to pain and dementia research. Dr Atee holds adjunct and honorary lecturer positions at Curtin Medical School and Sydney Pharmacy School, respectively.