CCGR Staff Profiles
Academic Staff
Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite
BA
UNE, DipLabRelsandtheLaw
Syd, MIR
Syd, MBA
Macq, PhD
UNSW, FAIM, FCHSE
Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite is a leading health services organisational researcher with an international reputation for his work investigating the culture and structure of acute settings, leadership, management and change in health sector organisations, quality and safety in health care, accreditation and surveying processes in international context and the restructuring of health services. Professor Braithwaite is well known for bringing management and leadership concepts and evidence into the clinical arena and he has published extensively (more than 200 refereed contributions, and 300 total publications) about organisational, social and team approaches to care which has raised the importance of these here and internationally. He has presented at international and national conferences, workshops, symposia and meetings on more than 300 occasions. Theories and ideas he has helped shape, formulate or devise, and provided research findings for, are now in common use as a result of his work: multi-method, triangulated approaches to research, the boundary-less hospital, accreditation models in general practice and beyond, clinician-managers as key players in reform initiatives, fundamental principles for the governance of health systems, diversity in clinical professional groups, inter-professional learning and culture change rather than restructuring as a more sustainable strategy for reform. His empirical results have exposed the distinctive attitudes of clinical professional groups, how clinician-managers enact their leadership responsibilities, the relationships between efficiencies and structural type of teaching hospitals, the behavioural displays of clinicians in service structures and the status of system-wide patient safety improvement initiatives. Professor Braithwaite is the recipient as at the end of 2008 of career research funding of $31 million spread over 45 grants; total new research funding and grants in the last five years amounts to $27 million over 34 grants; 70% of this grant funding is category one, peer-reviewed, chiefly ARC and NHMRC funding. He referees for 30 journals and the health research bodies of Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United Kingdom as well as for many international conferences and symposia. He publishes in the leading journals in three convergent fields and thus expresses his work at a unique intersection of organisational studies, health services research and clinical care. Journals he contributes to include the British Medical Journal, The Lancet and Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine; Health Services Management Research, Quality and Safety In Health Care, International Journal of Quality in Health Care and Social Science & Medicine; and Organisational Studies, International Journal of Health Planning and Management and Journal of Health, Organisation and Management.
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Research Interests Profile
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Telephone: (02) 9385 2590
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A/Professor Julie Johnson
MSPH, PhD
Julie K. Johnson, MSPH, PhD is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Deputy Director of the Centre for Clinical Governance Research at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia. Most recently, she was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago. A/Professor Johnson’s career interests involve building a series of collaborative relationships to improve the quality and safety of health care through teaching, research, and clinical improvement. Her ultimate goal is to translate theory into practice while generating new knowledge about the best models for improving care. A/Professor Johnson has a master’s degree in public health from the University of North Carolina and a PhD in evaluative clinical sciences from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. While on the faculty at University of Chicago, she used qualitative methods to study errors in ambulatory pediatric settings, to conduct observations in pediatric cardiac surgery, to observe how clinical teams function on inpatient medicine rounds, and to improve handovers of patient care.
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Telephone: (02) 9385 1474
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Dr Frances Cunningham
BA, Sc.D.
Johns Hopkins University, USA, FAICD, AFACHSE
Frances Cunningham is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre. She is a health services researcher and policy analyst with extensive experience as a senior health executive in both public and private health sectors. Her experience includes roles in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, and as Senior Policy Advisor to two New South Wales Ministers for Health. She was formerly Executive Director of the NSW Health Funds Association and has had senior management roles in private hospital groups and in private health insurance, as well as wide experience in health care consulting on a range of health-related projects. Her research interests include the financing and delivery of cost-effective, quality health care. She is currently a member of a research team working on an ARC Linkage Project developing a framework and tools to evaluate communities of practice and social-professional networks in healthcare.
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Telephone: (02) 9385 3592
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Dr David Greenfield
BSc, BA, BSocWk
UQ, Grad Cert IT
UTS, PhD
UNSW\
David Greenfield is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre and adjunct lecturer in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine. David’s research focus is the development and enactment of practice and how organizations shape and mediate learning and knowledge management. His research interests include communities of practice, innovation and change in health services, organizational culture and climate, learning and knowledge management and health service accreditation. David is currently working on an ARC project on interprofessional learning and interprofessional practice situated in the ACT Health. David holds Bachelor’s degrees in Science, Arts and Social Work from the University of Queensland, a Graduate Certificate in Information Technology from University of Technology Sydney, and a PhD from the University of NSW.
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Telephone: (02) 9385 3071
Fax: (02) 9211 9633
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Dr Geetha Ranmuthugala
MBBS
UPNG, MApplEpi
ANU, PhD
ANU, FRSPH
UK, AFCHSE.
Geetha Ranmuthugala is an epidemiologist with experience in the fields of general practice evaluation, rural and environmental health. She has a special interest in health services research focusing on quality of health care, financing of aged and long-term care in Australia, and evidence-based health policy. She is a Senior Research Fellow, currently a member of a research team working on an ARC Linkage Project developing a framework and tools to evaluate communities of practice and social-professional networks in healthcare.
Geetha's research profile can be viewed at:
http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/medweb.nsf/page/resinterestsshowperson?OpenDocument&StaffID=3301248
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Telephone: (02) 9385 3265
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Dr Peter Nugus
MA(Hons), MEd, PhD
Peter Nugus is a Research Fellow on the ARC Action Research Interprofessional Learning (IPL) Research Project. Peter is based in Canberra with the industry linkage partner for the project, ACT Health. Peter is also a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Health Stewardship at the Australian National University. Peter has a background in Political Science, Adult Education and Sociology. Peter’s research interests are ethnography, integrated care, interprofessional learning and practice, and the organizational work of emergency department and acute care clinicians. Peter has also worked with the UNSW Learning Centre, teaching academic writing skills, in particular, to indigenous students, pre-tertiary mature aged students, and postgraduate research students, across five schools of the university. Peter has participated in numerous health research and evaluation projects and is a Chief Investigator, with IPL colleagues, on $1.9 million of competitive industry funding to advance interprofessional learning in chronic disease management.
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Telephone: (02) 6207 2074
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Dr Alison Short
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Ms Joanne Travaglia
BSocStuds (Hons)
Syd, Grad Dip Adult Ed
UTS, MEd
Jo Travaglia is a medical sociologist with a particular interest in the health and safety of vulnerable groups, both patients and staff. Jo has over 25 years experience in interdisciplinary academic and professional work including five years within the Centre. During her time at the Centre she has worked on the design, management, implementation, and publication of results from research projects on topics relating to the quality and safety of health care, the impact of health care inquiries, the effects of incident reporting and safety improvement programs, clinical governance, accreditation, and interprofessional learning and practice.
She is currently a Chief Investigator on projects addressing the role of interprofessionalism in improving self management for people with chronic diseases and the development of a model of clinical governance for the primary care sector. Along with this experience, she has extensive knowledge of the fields of diversity, social determinants of health, and adult education and training. As part of her PhD Jo used critical theory to develop a new model for examining the way in which clinicians’ attitudes to each other and to their patients contributed to the quality and safety of care.
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Telephone: (02) 9385 2594
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Dr Pierre Richard
BCom, LLB, Grad Cert ULT
UNSW PhD
AGSM
Dr Pierre Richard is a Research Fellow on the ARC Interprofessional Learning (IPL) Research Project at the Centre. Pierre's research examines strategic decision-making, organisational knowledge flows, and the design of organisational architectures. Current research looks at the application of management theory in health services. Pierre's work has been published in leading international journals including the
Journal of Management and California Management Review.
Pierre has taught strategic management and business economics at the Australian School of Business. He has prior experience in investment banking, structured finance and corporate law and his work on strategy has been quoted in the business press in Australia and internationally. Pierre holds Bachelor's degrees in Commerce (Finance) and Law and has completed a Graduate Certificate in University Learning and Teaching at the University of New South Wales. He also has a PhD from the Australian Graduate School of Management (USyd and UNSW).
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Administrative Staff
Ms Sue Christian-Hayes
Sue’s primary role at the Centre is to provide financial and administrative support to the Management Committee and the Director of the Centre, as well as to do the financial management for the Centre's projects. Sue is also actively involved in many of the research projects assisting with literature searches and data entry of surveys. Sue supports the development of the Centre's research grants.
Sue sat on the organising committee during 2008 for the Sixth International Conference on Organisational Behaviour in Health Care [OBHC 2008] which was hosted by Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite on behalf of the Society for the Study of Organization in Health Care. Her role underpins much of the work of the Centre and provides the
infrastructure and business support needed for the research team to flourish.
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Telephone: (02) 9385 3861
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Mrs Deborah Debono
RN, RM and BA Psych
Hons
Deborah is a research officer in the Centre, working with Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite. She is a registered nurse and midwife with experience in both rural and metropolitan acute care settings. Deborah graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Psychology and Sociology. Her Honours Thesis investigated automatic and controlled cognitive processing in the elderly. Deborah’s research interests are medication error, patient safety and workarounds. She is conducting projects and providing research support in a range of areas. Deborah is undertaking a PhD focusing on workarounds in health care.
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Telephone: (02) 9385 2132
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Anne Hogden
B.Arts
Hons, B Speech Pathology
University of Newcastle
Anne Hogden is a Speech Pathologist with the Aged Care and Rehabilitation Service of ACT Health. Her clinical area of interest is the role of the interprofessional team in the treatment of Motor Neurone Disease. She is currently working as a research assistant with the IPL evaluation project team, based in Canberra.
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Mrs Margaret Jackson
Margaret joined the Centre in July 2008 as a part time research and administrative assistant, to undertake literature searches and perform general support duties. For more than 20 years, Margaret has worked on standards development for a health care accreditation agency commencing in an administrative assistant’s role and progressing to be a project officer. During that time her duties also involved maintaining the reference and historical collection of the organization, supporting the research unit, assisting with special projects and the production of publications. During the establishment of the Australian Accreditation Research Network, Margaret undertook the administrative support duties for this project. She has considerable experience in these kinds of roles, and she uses these skills to support the Centre’s activities.
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Telephone: (02) 9385 1465
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Ms Kate Tynan
BSc
UNSW, MPH
UNSW
Kate graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the UNSW in 1984 majoring in Biochemistry and Pharmacology. Her early career was spent in laboratory research spanning the public and private sectors where she first became acquainted with quality systems and project management. She changed careers to work in Health Services Research and became the Cancer Services Development Manager for South Western Sydney while completing a Masters in Public Health from UNSW in 2002. With the establishment of the Cancer Institute NSW and targeted enhancement funding a ‘hands on role’ was created to implement service redesign such as site-specific tumour programs, a cancer care coordination service and the first clinical cancer registry in NSW. Kate developed a special interest for service standards and gained valuable practical experience through implementing the Clinical Service Frameworks for Optimising Cancer Care in NSW.
In September 2008 Kate joined the Centre part time to support the five Chief Investigators of the $8.4 million National Health & Medical Research Council Patient Safety Program Grant. The successful consortium comprises the Universities of NSW, Sydney and South Australia.
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Telephone: (02) 9385 3267
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Visiting Staff
A/Professor Angus Corbett
Angus Corbett is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at University of Technology, Sydney and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre. Angus has collaborated on research concerning safety and quality of health care with members of the Centre and the Centre for Health Informatics. He has written on the role of compensation in the regulation of corporations and in systems of regulations that aim to improve the safety and quality of health care services. His current research concerns the use of regulation and governance to improve the safety and quality of health care services. In particular his research focuses on the ways that health care organizations can develop the capacities that are needed to coordinate the delivery of health care services in ways that improve the safety and quality of those services. Angus works with Professor Braithwaite on a range of research projects. He is engaged in a research project with Dr Farah Magrabi from the Centre for Health Informatics that investigates this problem of how health care organizations can develop these capacities.
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Telephone: (02) 9385 1465
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Dr David Henderson
David Henderson is a physician with multiple research interests in health systems reform. His research focuses on health services change. He presented a paper entitled Centralisation of control of professional activity in health services; an analysis based on example and resource based or knowledge based management theory at the Organisational Behaviour in Health Care Conference in 2008. This paper linked an evaluation of centrally mandated control systems with a synthesis of management literature.
David analysed the reports and transcripts of the three inquiries into the Bundaberg and other Queensland health hospitals, to gain insight for the underlying causes of the management actions in appointing and supporting Dr Patel to the Bundaberg Hospital. He has also been collaborating with Dr Pam McGrath of Central Queensland University in two studies of the experiences of international medical graduates (IMG), one in an observer program and a wider study of IMGs. Both studies have been focussed on the learning experiences of the IMGs and in the second wider study we are attempting to determine if there are social characteristics of the hospital that influence the learning required for IMGs to successfully enter the Australian health System.
Mr Brian Johnston
BHA
UNSW Dip Pub Admin
NSW Inst of Tech
Brian Johnston is a Visiting Fellow with the Centre. Since November 2000 he has been Chief Executive of the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS). He has been professionally involved with the ACHS since being appointed as a surveyor in 1985 and was also previously a member of the Standards Committee for six years. He has qualifications in health administration from the University of New South Wales and in public administration from the NSW Institute of Technology (now the University of Technology, Sydney).
Brian is a Fellow of the Australian College of Health Service Executives (ACHSE), a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management (AIM).
Brian is a member of the Management Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons’ Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures – Surgical (ASERNIP-S). He is the current Chair of the Council for the International Accreditation Program provided by the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua). He provides expertise in accreditation and standards to a range of Centre projects.
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Telephone: (02) 8218 2767
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Professor John Øvretveit
Dr John Øvretveit is Director of Research and Professor at the Medical Management Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Formally Professor of Health Policy and Management at Bergen University Medical School, Norway and at the Nordic School of Public Health. John’s work is based on the belief that organisation and management can bring out the best and worst in people, and that the right organization design is critical for effective healthcare: “the largest risk to health is a hidden one - poor health organization and management”. A theme underlying his work is how practical research can directly contribute to healthy work organisation and better care for patients. His book describes action evaluation methods for giving rapid feedback for service providers and policy-makers to improve their services.
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Dr Marjorie Pawsey
MB BS
Syd
Dr Marjorie Pawsey is a Visiting Fellow and works on developing publications from the Australian Research Council Linkage project (2005-2009) that examined the relationship between accreditation and organizational and clinical performance. Marjorie’s experience in standards and accreditation at the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS), contributes to the interpretation of the data. A range of papers on the relationship between accreditation outcomes and clinical performance as measured by clinical indicators, and on the important topical issue of the reliability of survey team assessments at accreditation surveys, are being developed for submission to journals this year.
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Telephone: (02) 9385 3267
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Ms Maureen Robinson
Dip Phty, Grad Cert Paed Phty, Cert Mgt Ed, Cert HSM, MHA
Maureen Robinson is a Director of Communio. Communio’s and Maureen’s key work focuses on service improvement particularly in the fields of patient safety and health care quality. She has a track record of leading and creating reform in health care quality including establishing the quality in health care practice in Communio, developing the priorities for quality and safety in the New Zealand health and disability sector, developing and introducing a national incident management policy, process and system in the NZ health sector, leading the review and rewrite of the Evaluation and Quality Improvement Program standards for the Australian Council for Healthcare Standards. Maureen continues to lead the development and implementation of state and national level policy and strategy for health care improvement and clinical governance in Australia and New Zealand. Maureen has clinical experience in both the Australian and USA health systems and an extensive background using quality improvement to enhance service delivery and patient care. Maureen was a member of the Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care and founding member and Chair of the State Quality Officials’ Forum.
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Professor William Runciman
BSc (Med) MBBCh, FANZCA, FJFICM, FHKCA, FRCA, PhD
William Runciman is Professor of Patient Safety and Healthcare Human Factors at the University of South Australia, and was Foundation Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the University of Adelaide. He is President of the Australian Patient Safety Foundation, and a member of the International Patient Safety Classification Group and Co-chair of the Research Methods and Measures Group of the World Alliance for Patient Safety, World Health Organization.
He has published over 200 scientific papers and chapters and his recent book is Runciman, Merry & Walton Safety and Ethics in Health Care: A Guide to Getting it Right (Ashgate 2007).
He has been conferred the Pugh Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the science of anaesthesia and related disciplines, and the Sidney Sax Medal for outstanding achievement in health services policy, organization, delivery and research.
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Telephone: (08) 8222 5115
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Conjoint A/Professor Mary Westbrook
AM, BA, MA (Hons), PhD, FAPS
Mary Westbrook is Conjoint Associate Professor at the Centre. She was previously Associate Professor in Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, at the University of Sydney. Her main areas of research are health organisations and professions, patient safety, and the psychology of illness, disability, ethnicity and gender. She has published over 120 research articles in peer reviewed journals. Mary is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and a Member of the Order of Australia for ‘services to people with disabilities and to education in the field of health sciences research’.
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Telephone: (02) 9419 5610
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Professor Les White
MBBS
Syd, FRACP, DSc
UNSW, MRACMA, MHA
UNSW
Professor Les White joined the Centre in 2000 as partner-investigator on the study 'A Project to Enhance Clinician Managers' Capacities as Agents of Change in Health Reform'. Les is concurrently the Executive Director of the Sydney Children's Hospital, the John Beveridge Professor of Paediatrics at the University of New South Wales, and a Visiting Research Professor in the Centre. His research interests include paediatric cancer, health systems, teamwork, networking, cultural change in paediatric institutions, and the ways in which clinicians can balance both managerial and clinical responsibilities.
Research Candidates
Robyn Clay-Williams
Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite
Co-Supervisor: Dr Ross Kerridge
PhD:
Multidisciplinary Crew Resource Management in Health Care: Is Combined Classroom and Simulationbased Training Additive or Synergistic?
Robyn’s PhD investigates the efficacy of aviation-style Crew Resource Management (CRM) training in improving public health safety, by evaluating attitude and behavioural changes in multi-disciplinary teams resulting from implementation of a CRM intervention in the Australian health care field. Robyn spent 24 years in the RAAF prior to starting her PhD.
She completed a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in electronic engineering in the early 1980s, and has trained as a military pilot, flight instructor and test pilot. She was the operational specialist on the advisory board for implementation of the latest generation CRM teamwork training into Australian military aviation, and is interested in the applicability of this type of training to other disciplines.
Greg Fairbrother
Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite
Co-Supervisor: Professor Mary Chiarella
PhD:
Team-based versus patient allocation systems in nursing: a comparative evaluation
Greg is the Nursing Manager, Research at Prince of Wales Hospital. He holds a conjoint appointment as Research Fellow with The University of Technology's Faculty of Nursing Midwifery and Health. His PhD topic is concerned with organising nursing care in the acute hospital.
Social action and quasi-experimental research designs were employed to trial staff-generated care models at two Sydney hospital campuses. Nursing care models are receiving significant attention contemporarily – this project is particularly focused on the usefulness of collective practice-centred rather than individual practice-centred models of care. Included in Greg's doctoral research program is a post structuralist study – exploring collectivity/individualistic discourses underlying the talk of a sample of senior Sydney nurse executives. A statistical validation study of the author-designed workplace satisfaction questionnaire used as outcome measures in the quasi-experiment is also included.
Frank Formby
Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite
Co-Supervisor: Professor William Runciman
PhD:
Investigation of a Novel Method of Evaluating Palliative Care Services
Ms Judie Lancaster
BA, LLB (Hons), MBioeth, Diploma of Nursing, Grad Cert HEd, Grad Dip Legal Practice
Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite
Co-supervisor: Dr David Greenfield
PhD:
Beyond Accreditation: the benefits of surveying
This research is a part of the Australian Research Council Linkage Project between the Centre for Clinical Governance Research in Health and Industry Partners. The project comprises three qualitative case studies that investigate the utility of surveying experience for organizations with professional staff who undertake accreditation surveying as a secondary professional activity. It explores the extent to which surveying creates
learning assets for surveyors and the organizations in which they are employed. The subject participants are three senior executives from different public area health services and their respective networks each totaling 20 colleagues; the total number of participants is 63. Data were collected through audio-taped interviews with the subject participants and colleagues (network participants) with whom they collaborate on a daily basis. The qualitative method was selected in order to capture particularities and perceptions of the surveying experience.
Ms Jacqueline Milne
Supervisor: Professor Jeffery Braithwaite
Co-supervisor: Dr David Greenfield
PhD:
International medical graduates lacking an nterprofessional learning orientation: pitfalls and barriers to enabling interprofessional practice and quality and safety in the delivery of health care
Jacqueline Milne joined the Centre in May 2007 as a part-time research associate and in 2008, commenced a PhD. Her research is in the area of interprofessional learning and interprofessional practice, with a specific focus on International Medical Graduates. Jacqueline has a background in health, education and commerce.
She has worked in clinical and administrative capacities in the health care system and was Clinical Superintendent of St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, for seven years. Currently, she is a part-time tutor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine (UNSW) and the School of Management and Marketing (UOW). Jacqueline is an Associate Fellow of the Australian College of Health Service Executives and holds an appointment with the New South Wales Health Professionals Registrations Board as a member of the Tribunal Panels and Professional Standards Committees.
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Telephone: (02) 9385 1453
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Mr David Pereira
Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite
Co-Supervisor: Dr David Greenfield
PhD:
The association between team characteristics, performance and Human Resource Management (HRM) in rehabilitation teams.
David Pereira’s PhD research focuses on team characteristics’ association with performance and human resource management for full-service rehabilitation teams. David’s PhD candidature at the Centre is under an academic staff training scheme scholarship from Malaysia’s premier public university, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Prior to commencing full time research studies, David was a lecturer based in the Malaysian capital city, Kuala Lumpur. His academic qualifications include an honours degree in biology and a master of business administration (MBA) specializing in multimedia marketing. Besides health care management research, David has a great passion for teaching and mentoring students at the tertiary level. David is currently a peer writing assistant with The Learning Centre at UNSW.
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Telephone: (02) 9385 3434
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Evelyn Harrison
Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite
Co-Supervisor: Black
PhD:
Commonwealth private health insurance initiatives
Lena Low
Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite
Co-Supervisor: A/Professor Anna Whelan
PhD:
The schema of complexities that impact on medical clinicians in their role of expert peer surveyors.
Lena Low is a part time PhD student with the Centre. She works full time as Executive Director - Corporate Services at the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards. Her qualifications and experience in health care accreditation and the industry facilitates the development, management and evaluation of systems to enable accreditation.
Lena’s PhD is providing new evidence for the way surveyors affect and are affected by accreditation. It is a multi-method triangulated study.
Sally Nathan
Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite
Co-Supervisor: Niamh Stephenson
PhD:
Consumer participation in health services.
Sally has Bachelor of Science in Psychology (Honours) and a Masters degree in Public Health. Sally’s PhD is part of a wider ARC Linkage study examining the relationship between health service accreditation and clinical and organizational performance. Sally’s PhD will specifically examine the dynamics of the interaction between health professionals and consumer representatives in health care decision-making forums in a sample of health services participating in the larger study.
The research examines community participation in ‘real time’, rather than through the examination of case studies retrospectively, allowing a window into the dynamics of the interaction between health professionals and the community. The research explores the role, expertise and influence of community members and the current capacity and potential of community members to influence.
Contact details:
Telephone: (02) 9385 1061
Fax: (02) 9313 6185
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Eilean Watson
Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite
Co-Supervisors: Professor Patrick McNeil and Dr Lesley
Land
PhD:
Curriculum mapping in medicine: How is it used?
Eilean Watson is a part time PhD student at UNSW. She is a full-time Lecturer in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at UNSW, and teaches undergraduate medical students and postgraduate students.
Her qualifications and experience in medical education and information systems have assisted in her designing eMed Map - a web-based curriculum mapping system used by staff and students in the Undergraduate Medicine Program at UNSW. Eilean’s PhD aims to explore how the eMed Map is used by staff, identifying the organizational, educational and information systems barriers to curriculum mapping.
Miss Jennifer Plumb
BA(Hons) Oxon, MSc Lond,
Jennifer has a background in medical anthropology, health policy, and knowledge management. She is a PhD candidate and part of the team working on the development of tools to evaluate the effectiveness of communities of practice and social professional networks. Although much is invested in the development of these groups in healthcare and other industries, there is as yet no established method to show whether or how such collaboration contributes to outcomes. Jennifer’s research will focus on attempting to ascertain how aspects of the structure and functioning of communities of practice and social networks impact on patient safety practice.
Contact details:
Telephone: (02) 9385 8502
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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Dr Desmond Yen
Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite
Co-Supervisor: Dr David Greenfield
PhD:
A prospective and retrospective study of the organisational influence of accreditation surveyors
Dr Janice Wiley
MBBS
UNSW
Dr Janice Wiley has a background working in General Medical Practice and the Divisions of General Practice. She is a PhD candidate with the Faculty of Medicine and hopes to focus her research on a systems approach to the emergence, evolution and integration of socio-professional networks in chronic disease management as a means to formulating integrated primary health care.
Contact details:
Telephone: (02) 9385 8503
Fax: (02) 9663 4926
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