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| Dr Sam Adie
South Western Sydney Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
Clinical research in outcomes after orthopaedic surgery. Also of particular interest is the quality of available/current surgical research , and the effect this has on outcome estimations
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| Dr Janaki Amin
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical ResearchStatement of Interests:
HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis epidemiology and clinical trials are of primary interest
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| Dr Tracy Anderson
School of PsychiatryStatement of Interests:
Dr Anderson works as a Research Fellow for the NHMRC funded Brain and Ageing Program Grant. As part of the program grant team she works closely with Professors in the School of Psychiatry who specialize in geriatric psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, epidemiology, psychiatric classification and health policy. Her fellowship is aimed at exploring epidemiological datasets, considering classification issues, and generating metrics important to health policy within the context of ageing and age-related diseases.
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| Professor Gavin Andrews
School of PsychiatryStatement of Interests:
No country can afford the health care its citizens desire. Resources should be deployed in terms of the burden of disease and the cost-effectiveness of interventions for it is the most efficient policy but how do you reconcile fairness, equity and caring for the sick? we have a research program active in this area. In developed countries chronic disease is the problem: both prevention of the disease and better patient centered management once they occur. We have an active program to develop school based prevention of anxiety and depressive disorders. We have an active program to improve patient education in primary care [see http://www.climate.tv]
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| Mr Stephen Anthony
Australian Institute of Health Innovation - Centre for Health InformaticsStatement of Interests:
Current research contributions are in the area of information extraction and semantic classification of sentences in the medical domain for Evidence-based Medicine. This includes the development of a framework for automatically extracting key facts and findings from clinical trials potentially useful for decision support at point-of-care, multi-document summarisation, question answering, search, and related activities.
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| Professor Adrian Bauman
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
physical activity and Public health; Physical activity epidemiology; health promotion measurement methods; the design and evaluation of health related mass media campaigns
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| Associate Professor Mike Bennett
Prince of Wales Clinical School - Department of SurgeryStatement of Interests:
The field of Hyperbaric Medicine is regarded with great suspicion by many medical graduates. This is due at least in part to both widespread ignorance of the effects of high doses of oxygen, and a poor clinical research base. In this regard, the appropriate collation, critical appraisal and meta-analysis of comparative clinical trials is of great interest. Work is underway with colleagues from the USA, UK and Germany to produce a systematic appraisal of the evidence-basis for the use of hyperbaric oxygenation.
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| Dr Robert Brooks
School of PsychiatryStatement of Interests:
Current research is based on analysis of exisitng epidemiological data sets examinimg mental illness in post conflict societies and non conflict societies using a range of statistical tools. Currently conducting an ongoing whole of family project examining anger and violence in three Australian Aboriginal communities. Strong skills and interest in research and statistical methods and in psychometric issues and analysis.
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| Professor Nicholas Buckley
Prince of Wales Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
As part of the SACTRC collaboration I have helped developed a centre of clinical toxicology research excellence in Sri Lanka – largely funded by the NHMRC and Wellcome Trust International Collaborative Research Grant scheme. The main focus of this work is pesticide poisoning, although the collaboration began with trials on snake envenomation and oleander poisoning and continues to be active in researching these areas and in other community based public and mental health projects.
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| Dr Christopher Carmody
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
The association between smoking and erectile function is well understood in the health care community but in Australia there remains a gap in clinical research and health protection efforts with regard to this particular topic.
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| Ms Natacha Carragher
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
Her research interests include major depression,the epidemiology of substance use disorders, and the application of latent variable modelling to epidemiological data. Natacha has also conducted research in a forensic setting involving sex offenders with learning disabilities.
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| Dr Ying Cheng
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| Associate Professor Elizabeth Comino
Centre for Primary Health Care and EquityStatement of Interests:
My primary research interest is access to ‘best practice’ primary health care. I have substantial experience with analysis of large data collections and data linkage. I lead research that includes descriptive studies into access to care for people with diabetes, use of administrative data to describe access to and use of well baby clinics, and intervention research of management of chronic respiratory disease, and an NHMRC funded birth cohort study of Aboriginal infants in an urban community. This study is describing the health, development and health service use of Aboriginal children in an urban environment and is the first of its kind on the eastern seaboard of Australia.
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| Associate Professor Maria Craig
School of Women's and Children's HealthStatement of Interests:
My major research interest is childhood diabetes, including the association between enteroviruses and type 1 diabetes (in collaboration with the Virology Research Group at POWH, headed by Prof W Rawlinson) and the epidemiology of childhood diabetes (type 1 and type 2). I am also actively involved in research into diabetes complications (in collaboration with Assoc Prof Kim Donaghue at the Children's Hospital at Westmead).
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| Mr Roy Dean
School of Women's and Children's HealthStatement of Interests:
Sex ratios are important markers of community health. Research interests include investgating variations in sex ratios at birth and the effects of exogenous shock, stress and severe life events on birth outcomes.
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| Dr Elizabeth Denney-Wilson
Centre for Primary Health Care and EquityStatement of Interests:
Prevention of chronic disease through modification and/or management of risk factors, in particular obesity are primary research interests.
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| Associate Professor Kate Dolan
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
Dr Dolan is interested in the transmission and prevention of infectious diseases in prison.
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| Professor Basil Donovan
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical ResearchStatement of Interests:
In the field of sexual health, key populations warrant special attention as a public health priority. Such populations include sex workers, men who have sex with men, Indigenous people living in remote settings, and prisoners. The molecular epidemiology of specific sexually transmissible infections (STIs) enables new insights into the spread and containment of STIs in populations.
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| Professor Gregory Dore
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical ResearchStatement of Interests:
Clinical epidemiology and clinical research in the areas of viral hepatitis and HIV/viral hepatitis co-infection are broad research focus areas. More specifically, natural history of hepatitis C infection and natural history and therapeutic research in HIV/viral hepatitis co-infection. Other specific areas of research interest include quality of life in hepatitis C, HIV-related hepatotoxicity, and modelling of the epidemiology of hepatitis C.
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| Dr Matthew Dunn
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
Emerging research is investigating the use of licit (legal) performance enhancing supplements amongst exercising populations and athletes. Work is being undertaken to explore this amongst a range of groups, including secondary and tertiary education athletes and exercising populations.
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| Professor Valsamma Eapen
School of PsychiatryStatement of Interests:
In the area of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, special areas of focus include epidemiology, genetic underpinnings, neurocognitive processes and clinical presentation of neurodevelopmental disorders such as Tourette Syndrome, Autism, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Other areas of interest include anxiety in young children and metabolic syndrome in adolescents with mental illness.
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| Associate Professor John Eden
School of Women's and Children's HealthStatement of Interests:
Associate Professor Eden is actively involved in the following areas of Research: 1) The polycystic ovary syndrome: It's Aetiology, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, Prevalence, Inheritance, Infertility & recurrent abortion, and Treatment; 2) Anovulation, including Weight-loss, Exercise-induced, Health risks, Ovulation induction, and Diet & reproduction; 3) Regulation of the ovary including Paracrine control, Insulin-like growth factors and Other peptide growth factors; 4)Menopause issues of Hormone replacement, Osteoporosis, Progestogens, Education, Breast cancer, Cancer and HRT, Diet and menopausal symptoms, and Phytoestrogens; 5) Nutrition topics such as Functional foods, Over-the-counter products, Cancer treatment and prevention, Lipid lowering, Cardiovascular disease treatment and prevention, Menopause syndrome, Isoflavones, and Lignans 6) Microbiological Biofilms in health and sickness
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| Professor Caroline Finch
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Professor Caroline Finch is an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Injury Risk Management at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She is also the Director of the NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre at UNSW and a Conjoint Professor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine. She is regarded both nationally and internationally as one of Australia's leading injury epidemiologists, particularly in the area of sports injury prevention. Professor Finch has broad ranging expertise in sports injury, road safety, occupational safety and childhood safety. Her research program aims to provide an evidence base for injury prevention activities at the broad community level and to use a data-driven approach to identify injury problems. She is particularly interested in injury surveillance, evaluating the effectiveness of injury prevention measures and identifying barriers towards the uptake of such measures.
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| Dr Bob Fonseca
School of Women's and Children's HealthStatement of Interests:
I am interested in the areas of quality improvement, paediatric emergencies and epidemiology as applied to medical education and clinical practice.
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| Mr Steven Frost
South Western Sydney Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
Osteoporosis research, epidemiology, health services research and risk prediction.
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| Dr Zhanhai Gao
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Dr Zhanhai Gao has qualifications (BSc and MSc) in mathematics & statistics and a PhD in applied mathematics (mathematical modelling). His current research interests include modelling the impact of vaccination on varicella zoster virus epidemiology, modelling and evaluating intervention programs of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in Australia (the subject of his PhD thesis). His research work includes modelling infectious disease in livestock (VC's post-doctoral research), dynamical systems and mathematical biology / biomathematics, infectious disease programming and computuing. He is also involved in biostatistics, statistical analysis / computing for medical research, data management and study design for cluster randomisation trials. It is his strong field as well to develop toolbox or stand alone software of easy-to-use form for medical researchers from non-mathematics or computer science background.
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| Professor Andrew Grulich
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical ResearchStatement of Interests:
Epidemiology and prevention of HIV infection, including behavioural and biomedical prevention.
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| Associate Professor Melissa Haswell-Elkins
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Skills: Community-based action research methodology, epidemiology and statistics, qualitative research methods, intervention studies, psychometrics, population biology, laboratory methods.
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| Dr Kenshi Hayashida
Australian Institute of Health Innovation - Centre for Clinical Governance Research in HealthStatement of Interests:
Improvement of Quality and Efficiency of Health Care: Evaluation of quality and efficiency of health care (process, outcome, cost, resource); Development of management system for quality, safety and sustainability; International comparison of health policy and system
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School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
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| Professor Bin Jalaludin
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Main research interest is in the health effects of outdoor air pollution. We have studied the associations between aoutdoor air pollution and birth outcomes, emergency department visits, hospitalisations and mortality. We have also studied the effects of air pollution on children's lung function and symptoms. Current research includes the development of methods to measure exposure to traffic related air pollution, refining methods for conducting cost-benefit analyses in air pollution and health and a multi-city study of outdoor air pollution and children's lung health.
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| Dr Upali Jayasinghe
Centre for Primary Health Care and EquityStatement of Interests:
My research mainly focuses on application of multilevel modeling and other statistical methods, particularly in Health and medical research.
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| Associate Professor Rohan Jayasuriya
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Global Health ( health systems strengthening; Human Resources for Health, health information systems development and evaluation; Reproductive health and Program Evaluation) Organizational behaviour in technology adoption; Psycho-social factors in Chronic disease(Diabetes, Hepatitis C, Osteo-arthritis, Chronic Health failure) and in ageing ( stroke rehabilitation); Social epidemiology and health inequity.
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| Professor John Kaldor
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical ResearchStatement of Interests:
Epidemiology and prevention of HIV infection, hepatitis C infection and other sexually transmissible diseases and blood-borne viruses; Epidemiology and prevention of cancer; Epidemiological methods.
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| Dr Stephen Kerr
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical ResearchStatement of Interests:
Rational drug use is about the clinical use of the right drug, for the right patient, for the right indication, at the right dose, for the right duration, at the lowest cost to the patient and the community. Using drugs in this way helps to optimise the safety and quality of health care. One important first step is the conduct of well conceived clinical trials.
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| Associate Professor Glenda Lawrence
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Applied epidemiological research and analysis of routinely collected surveillance data for development of evidence-based immunisation policies and evaluation of immunisation programs. Specific areas include monitoring of immunisation rates and vaccine safety surveillance data; and assessment of the impact of immunisation programs on the burden and epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases.
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| Dr Bon San Bonne Lee
Australian Institute of Health Innovation - Centre for Clinical Governance Research in HealthStatement of Interests:
In the area of epidemiology, meta-analysis and other methods of synthesizing data as well as clinical database design. Currently active research in clinical governance, health status measures, analysing multidisciplinary team structures and pressure area care. Completed a PhD in urinary antisepsis and quality of life and has published the largest available RCT in this area.
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| Associate Professor Rupert Leong
South Western Sydney Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
Inflammatory bowel disease: - epidemiology - clinical drug trials - endoscopic mucosal imaging - genetics - proteomics in phenotyping and prognostication - qualitative research, quality of life. Endoscopy: - endoscopic ultrasound fine needle aspiration for biomarkers - confocal endomicroscopy Colorectal Cancer: - epidemiology, outcomes research - molecular biomarkers Collaborations: - Chinese University of Hong Kong - University of Western Australia - University of Sydney - Sydney South West Area Health Service: Bankstown Hospital, Concord Hospital
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| Dr Lee-Fay Low
School of Psychiatry - Dementia Collaborative Research CentreStatement of Interests:
Risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia, dementia literacy in the Australian population and in persons from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, provision of services for persons with dementia, behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.
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| Professor Raina MacIntyre
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
[ Professor MacIntyre has made a major contribution to control of infectious diseases threats in Australia, including bioterrorism and pandemic influenza. She won the 2007 Sir Henry Wellcome Medal and Prize from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States for work on bioterrorism, an honour rarely bestowed on civilians or non-US citizens. She runs a strategic, multidisciplinary research in the control and prevention of infectious diseases through vaccines, therapeutics, screening, prophylaxis and non-pharmaceutical measures. The threat of emerging infections, pandemic influenza, bioterrorism and other major infectious incursions which will have a societal impact are a focus of her research. She is involved in pivotal trials of the efficacy of face masks in preventing respiratory infections in the community and in health workers. She is currently running a trial in Beijing on the use of face masks in hospital health workers. Other research includes special risk populations such as health care workers, front line responders and emergency workers, immunosuppressed, refugees. Disease areas include influenza and respiratory viruses, pneumococcal disease, human papillomavirus, TB, hepatitis A and other vaccine-preventable infections. Methodologies include clinical trials, observational epidemiology, mathematical modelling and social research. Current research includes vaccine trials (HPV, pneumococcal, influenza) in special risk groups, trials of face masks and studies of international travel (in Thailand) and emerging infections. Her research program is facilitated with an ongoing appointment as senior principal research fellow at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases; and through appointments on several key national expert committees which inform policy and practice; In 2009 she was also on the US Institute of Medicine's Committee on Respiratory protection for Health Care Workers against Novel H1N1 Influenza A. <a href="../page/resinterestsshowperson?OpenDocument&StaffID=3260310"><br>More... </a><br><br></font>] | |
| Professor Lisa Maher
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical ResearchStatement of Interests:
I conduct ethnographic, epidemiological and clinical research on drug use and related harms and studies of behavioural and biomedical prevention interventions designed to prevent infectious diseases in vulnerable populations, with a focus on injecting drug users and female sex workers.
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| Dr Nicola Man
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Research experience in the area of population and quantitative genetics, genetics of disease resistance, statistical analysis of genetic data and simulation studies of populations undergoing genetic selection. Current research interest extend to epidemiology with respect to stochastic modelling of infectious diseases, host-pathogen evolution and statistical analysis of biological and epidemiological data.
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| Dr Limin Mao
Prince of Wales Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
Cancer epidemiology, HIV/AIDS and its risky behaviors, and primary health care are of particular interest.
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| Dr Brahmaputra Marjadi
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections in low-resourced settings are of particular interest. These include quantitative and qualitative research into contributing factors and barriers for cost-effective and context-appropriate infection prevention and control measures.
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| Professor Guy Marks
South Western Sydney Clinical School - Department of MedicineStatement of Interests:
In the field of asthma I have research projects in (a) causes, risk factors and prevention and (b) monitoring trends and distribution of disease burden and management practices. I also conduct research on respiratory health effects of air pollution. I have some research projects related to public health aspects of TB control in Australia.
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| Ms Karen Mather
School of PsychiatryStatement of Interests:
The main research focus is to gain a better understanding of the genetic and environmental factors involved in ageing and age-related disease. The genetic factors that may be involved include variation at the nucleotide level, epigenetic variation, epistasis and gene-environmental interactions. Current research is being undertaken using large population cohorts of older Australians and examining the genetic variation and environmental factors associated with ageing phenotypes.
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| Associate Professor Mary-Louise McLaws
School of Public Health and Community Medicine - Hospital Infection and Epidemiology Surveillance UnitStatement of Interests:
Patient safety and healthcare worker safety with emphasis on the epidemiology of healthcare-associated and occupational acquisition of infection. Specific interests include surveillance of infectious diseases in healthcare facility, healthcare workers' behaviour in infection control, disaster management and outbreak of infectious diseases investigation.
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| Dr Katherine Mills
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
The main focus of Dr Mills' research is the epidemiology and treatment of comorbidity (i.e., the co-occurrence of substance use and mental health disorders), in particular post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders.
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| Dr Abdel-Latif Mohamed El-Amin
School of Women's and Children's HealthStatement of Interests:
In the field of perinatal neonatal medicine, the neonatal health service organisation research and neonatal epidemiology are of particular interest. Other areas of interest include quality in neonatal intensive care units, neurodevelopmental outcome of premature infants and neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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| Dr Mohammed Mohsin
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Is there equity in emergency medical care in NSW Hospital Emergency Departments? Factors associated with waiting time and walk-out of patients from ED; Determinants of low birth weight and premature birth; Factors associated with still births and neonatal deaths; Smoking and smoking cessation; hospitalisations and mortality. Current research includes development of methods to measure exposure to traffic related air pollution and in refining methods for conducting cost-benefit analyses in air pollution and health, smoking and smoking cessation among Arabic speaking population in Sydney South West; Impact of overweight & obesity on health outcomes.
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| Professor Dedee Murrell
St George Clinical School - Department of MedicineStatement of Interests:
Clinical dermatology Research • quality of life studies in blistering diseases; epidemiology of Epidermolysis bullosa and autoimmune blistering diseases in Australia; Basic/Translational research: genotype-phenotype correlations in epidermolysis bullosa • gene and cell therapy for dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa • autoantigen mapping in pemphigus and pemphigoid • squamous cell carcinoma and angiogenesis factors Dermatopharmacology Research • photodynamic therapy for non-melanoma skin cancer • trials of new therapies for psoriasis • evidence based therapies and measurement tools for blistering diseases ; Supervision of ILP students since the program started - the first student, John Frew, won the prize for the best project at the Annual Symposium at St George Hospital in 2007 (Development of a quality of life scale, the QOLEB, for EB); Yong Kho won the same prize in 2008 (Establishment of the Australasian EB Registry); all ILP students have had high distinctions and oral and poster presentations at local, national and some at International conferences, and published papers.
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| Professor John Myburgh
St George Clinical School - Department of MedicineStatement of Interests:
My previous research included pharmacodynamic studies of catecholamines on systemic and cerebrovascular function, aspects of neurotrauma and large-scale multicentred clinical trials in Intensive Care in conjunction with the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Clinical Trials Group (ANZICS CTG). Current research activities are conducted through the George Institute for International Health in Critical Care Medicine and Trauma in collaboration with the ANZICS CTG and George Institute China and India. These studies include glycaemic control and renal replacement therapy in Intensive Care and development of trauma outcome studies in Australia, China and India.
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| Professor Tuan Van Nguyen
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
I have two main interests in osteoporosis research: epidemiology of osteoporotic fractures and genetics of osteoporosis. In terms of epidemiology, my group’s research interests are mainly in the study of determinants of fracture and the development of prognostic models for predicting fracture risk in an individual patient. A second focus of my group’s research is concerned with the genetics of osteoporosis. We are specifically interested in finding novel genes that are involved in the regulation of bone phenotypes, including bone mineral density and fracture. Current research projects: * Development of prognostic models for the assessment of fracture risk * Development of new phenotype for osteoporosis * Determinants of bone loss and the concept of risk individualization * Hormonal determinants of diabetes, cancer and osteoporosis * Bayesian models for epidemiologic data * Genomewide association study of osteoporosis genes * Genomewide linkage analysis of bone phenotypes I currently have a number of projects that are suitable for masters and PhD candidates. I am looking for candidates with strong background in clinical epidemiology, genetics, and biostatistics with solid knowledge in Bayesian modeling. Interested candidates can contact me via email at tuan.nguyen@unsw.edu.au or t.nguyen@garvan.org.au for more detailed description of these projects.
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| Dr Sallie-Anne Pearson
Prince of Wales Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
Sallie is a health service researcher specialising in clinician behaviour change, pharmacoepidemiology and pharmaceutical policy evaluation. She has conducted this research in Australia, the United States and the developing world. Sallie completed her doctoral training in 1998 at the University of Newcastle, Australia and was the inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow in Pharmaceutical Policy at Harvard Medical School from 2000-2001. She returned to Australia in 2002 where she worked as a consultant to the WHO Collaborating Centre in Pharmaceutical Policy Boston and Medicare Australia for two years. She returned to academia in 2004 and in March 2006 joined the Integrated Cancer Research Group as the Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmaceutical Policy Team Leader. She is currently a Cancer Institute NSW Health Services Research Fellow (2006-2009). Sallie's current research interests focus on three core areas: 1. Using secondary data sources to investigate the use and impact of medicines in real world clinical prcatice 2. Clinician behaviour change, specifically the use and uptake of electronic decision support to guide prescribing practice 3. Investigating the direct and indirect costs of cancer care from the perspective of health care payers and patients
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| Associate Professor Nicholas Pocock
St Vincent's Clinical School - Department of MedicineStatement of Interests:
Diagnostic techniques for osteoporosis. Epidemiology of osteoporosis and impact on society.
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| Associate Professor Garrett Prestage
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical ResearchStatement of Interests:
Sexuality and sexual identity; Transmission, prevention and treatment of HIV other sexually transmissible infections; Gay men's health. Projects include both cross-sectional surveys and cohort studies of health and behaviour, as well as interview-based qualitative studies.
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| Dr Heather Proudfoot
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
To date have focused on alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and treatment seeking,particularly in primary care. Also have published on diagnostic criteria for AUDS, as well as the issue of AUDs comorbid with other mental health disorders and alcohol and GP service usage.
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| Dr Geetha Ranmuthugala
Australian Institute of Health Innovation - Centre for Clinical Governance Research in HealthStatement of Interests:
Epidemiologist with particular interest in quantitative methods with experience in the fields or rural and environmental health and in economic modelling. Special interest in health services research focusing on quality of health care.
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| Dr David Regan
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical ResearchStatement of Interests:
My research involves the development of mathematical models for studying the dynamics of infectious disease transmission and epidemics, and for evaluating the potential impact of interventions for control and prevention. In particular, I am interested in sexually transmitted infections such as HIV, Chlamydia and human papillomavirus. Our work has an important role in informing public health policy in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
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| Dr David Regan
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical ResearchStatement of Interests:
The mathematical modelling group at the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical research develops models for evaluating intervenitons aimed at controlling or preventing the transmission of transmissible diseases and, in particular, sexually transmitted infections such as HIV, Chlamydia and human papillomavirus.
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| Associate Professor Juliet Richters
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
My research, both quantitative and qualitative, centres on the analysis of social (especially sexual) practice, taking a social constructionist approach within a realist empirical framework. I do both representative-sample survey research and in-depth qualitative studies, with a special interest in the relation between social interaction and material context. Topics include STI prevention, contraception, condoms and condom use, prisons, and sexuality and sexual practice. I am keen to supervise postgraduate research and ILP projects on such topics as: o Sex and contraception o Lesbian and bisexual women’s health (survey data available) o Sexual health and attitudes of prisoners (data available) o The portrayal of sex offenders in the media o Conceptualisation of sexual disorders, problems and offences and the effectiveness of treatment o Material context and regulation of illicit activity (e.g. parks, train stations) o Lay concepts of disease transmission, especially in sex
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| Dr Holly Seale
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Research currently focuses on: Risk perception, practices around viruses and contagion and the potential impact of an influenza pandemic, professional perceptions and behaviours regarding vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases, non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent the spread of infection
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| Dr Jesmin Shafiq
South Western Sydney Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
Research interests include quality of life of cancer patients, evidence based review of cancer treatment utilisation, linking research to clinical practice, use of epidemiological data for program evaluation
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| Associate Professor Anthony Shakeshaft
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
Principal research interests are in evidence-based medicine, community-wide interventions, use of computers in health settings, especially general practice, and the evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions in reducing alcohol and other drug abuse. Previous work has involved the use of patient driven computers for anxiety and depression in Primary Care, in both the U.K. and Canada. Currently, his major project is aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of a community-wide intervention strategy to reduce alcohol-related harm in rural communities in NSW, funded by the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation.
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| Dr Mohamud Sheikh
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Dr Mohamud Sheikh is an NHMRC Public Health Research Fellow at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine and an international public health expert with over 17 years of experience in infectious diseases and tropical medicine. He has academic qualifications in Medical Laboratory Sciences (majoring in Medical Microbiology, Virology Parasitology and Medical Entomology), and graduated from University of Sydney with Master of International Public Health, Master of Health Science (clinical data management & clinical trials), and a Doctorate in public health, thus Mohamud comes with a rich clinical and non-clinical expertise. He also has various other trainings that include Public Health Anthropology, Health Programs Evaluation, Qualitative & Quantitative data management among other. Recently, Mohamud has had outstanding achievements and attained several key awards that included; Public Health Education Research & Training, Cross Cultural Public Health Research Award and 4 years fully funded NHMRC research fellowship. His research interest include, infectious diseases research (such as TB, Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Vaccine Preventable diseases & other), International Health Development, Refugee Health, Human Rights and Public Health, Tropical Diseases Surveillance and Control among other. He has had several peer reviewed publications and also reviews several international health journals.
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| Associate Professor Leon Simons
St Vincent's Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
http://www.dubbostudy.org/ This dept is researching lipid therapies to prevent cardiovascular disease. It is also researching healthy ageing in the Dubbo cohort.
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| Dr Tim Slade
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
In the field of psychiatry the classification of psychiatric disorders, particularly the broad question regarding the categorical versus dimensional status of psychiatric disorders, is of interest. Novel and innovative statistical methods for examining the continuity of psychopathology are being used. Research interests also centre around the use of community (epidemiological) and clinical data to inform unresolved issues in the classification of psychiatric disorders.
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| Dr Zachary Steel
School of PsychiatryStatement of Interests:
In the field of Social Psychiatry, cross cultural differences in psychiatric epidemiology, refugee mental health, mental health and human rights, psychological management of psychotic disorders.
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| Professor Bernard W Stewart
School of Women's and Children's HealthStatement of Interests:
The distribution of cancer in the community is largely due to the impact of environmental factors. Research is directed toward assessing the impact of lifestyle factors (including tobacco smoking), occupational exposures and the impact of pollution as means of preventing cancer. Immediate research concerns include risk communication and medico-legal approaches to limiting the impact of environmental carcinogens. Addressing community concern in relation to cancer clusters, and the provision of usable information about presumed hazards are the focus of current research.
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| Dr Wendy Swift
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
Current research interests and projects include patterns and consequences of cannabis use and dependence, cannabis potency and the Australian cannabis market and the development of interventions to prevent or treat cannabis related problems. Additional interest is substance use among women and older Australians, including polypharmacy, and public health approaches to substance use use.
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| Dr Peter Taylor
School of Medical Sciences - Department of PathologyStatement of Interests:
Working in the field of diagnostic clinical microbiology there is a need to integrate new techniques and laboratory approaches to clinical testing. Improved and alternate methodology for existing tests and quality improvement are essential components to maintain credibility of diagnostic laboartories.
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| Dr David Templeton
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical ResearchStatement of Interests:
Broad interest in the field of sexual health medicine, with a focus on the epidemiology of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in gay men and sexual assault
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| Dr Rosie Thein
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical ResearchStatement of Interests:
HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis epidemiology, mathematical modelling, evidence synthesis, measuring health-related quality of life and utilities, and health services research. She is particularly interested in using dynamic models to assess the impacts of behavioural changes, treatments, vaccination and other prevention strategies on the health and economic burden of HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis. Current research includes estimation of long-term health care costs attributable to hepatitis C using serological and administrative data, epidemiology of liver cancer and mortality attributable to viral hepatitis and coinfection with HIV in NSW using data linkage techniques, and economic evaluation of current and future costs of hepatitis C in Australia and the potential impact of increased treatment uptake.
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| Dr Rachel Thompson
Medical Administration - Medicine Education & Student OfficeStatement of Interests:
Since 2007 I have been working as the Academic Fellow for Learning and Teaching for the Medical Faculty at UNSW. This role involves research, support for staff and networking within the Medical Faculty and also research and discussion with the other L&T Fellows at UNSW (one based in each Faculty). As convenor of the Quality of Medical Practice vertical stream in the new medical program (3802), my main research interests lie in the learning and teaching of evidence-based medicine and quality and safety in medical practice. I am also convenor of the Health Maintenance B and co-convenor of the Health Maintenance A course in Phase 1 of the Medical Program.
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| Dr Claire Vajdic
Prince of Wales Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
The epidemiology of cancer in relation to immunodeficient states, such as HIV/AIDS infection, solid organ transplantation, haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and primary immune deficiency. The epidemiology and prevention of cancer, in particular lymphoma. Epidemiological methods, with an emphasis on exposure assessment. Ongoing interest in malignancies associated with sun exposure, in particular, melanoma of the eye.
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| Associate Professor Katrina Williams
School of Women's and Children's HealthStatement of Interests:
In the field of evidence-based medicine and child health developing and implementing best-level evidence through systematic reviews and original research. Topics of special interest are prognosis systematic reviews, autism and improving child health through population based interventions.
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| Mrs Anna Williams
Centre for Primary Health Care and EquityStatement of Interests:
Primary Health Care Evaluation, Research and Development.
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| Dr James Wood
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
- Modelling control strategies for emerging infectious diseases (Pandemic Influenza, SARS etc.)
- Optimising the use of vaccination for endemic diseases such as measles, chicken pox and Tuberculosis
- Effects of contact structures on endemic disease dynamics
- The influence of in-host dynamics on population epidemiology of infectious diseases
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