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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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| Professor Michael Barton
South Western Sydney Clinical School - Department of MedicineStatement of Interests:
Cancer outcomes are affected by a wide range of factors beyond the efficacy of screening or treatment interventions. The application of current best practice is estimated to improve overall survival from cancer by about 10%. Interventions in the delivery of cancer care that can improve outcomes range from the micro patient care) to the macro health service reform) and stretch across the continuum from formative educational experiences to daily clinical practice.
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| Dr Melissa Baysari
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| Dr Ilse Blignault
School of Public Health and Community Medicine - Muru Marri Indigenous Health UnitStatement of Interests:
Within the broad area of psychiatry/mental health, research interests include transcultural mental health, the social and emotional well-being of Indigenous Australians, primary mental health care and telepsychiatry (e-mental health). Other broad areas of interest are global health, multicultural health and research methods. Currently, senior researcher on an ARC-funded project, 'Investigating psychosocial and mental health policy in countries emerging from conflict and natural disaster', as well as co-Director of the 'Health Care Seeking Behaviour Study East Timor' funded by AusAID. Works closely with the Muru Marri Indigenous Health Unit, and provides methodolgical and specialist content advice to a range of cross-cultural evaluation and research projects.
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| Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite
Australian Institute of Health Innovation - Centre for Clinical Governance Research in HealthStatement of Interests:
Organisation theory and behaviour; the future of the hospital; health policy, including comparative international health policy; the management of health care agencies, especially teaching hospitals and public health sector organisations; the application of strategic management and planning techniques to health sector problems; change management, including changing behaviour of clinicians and managers
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| Dr Jeremy Bunker
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Research into the effectiveness of different models of chronic disease diagnosis and management in primary care is focussed on COPD, and on the establishment and evaluation of an integrated primary care centre in Canterbury.
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| Associate Professor Gideon Caplan
Prince of Wales Clinical School - Department of MedicineStatement of Interests:
The delivery of acute health services has potential benefits and side effects of an order of magnitude greater than most pharmaceutical agents, yet are rarely vigorously studied. It may be possible to manipulate these effects by, for example, the substitution for care in the hospital with care at home, during the acute or post acute phases. This would bring benefits for health outcomes, patient satisfaction and costs to the health system which need to be defined. Delirium is the most common problem bedevilling older people in hospital. Yet little is understood about the basic pathophysiology of delirium. Using a multidisciplinary, bedside to lab bench approach, we hope to unlock the mystery of delirium.
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| Associate Professor Jacqueline Close
Prince of Wales Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
Falls and fracture prevention in older people through: a)the systematic identification of risk factors b)the testing of interventions through RCTs c)application of the evidence in the routine clinical setting
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| Professor Enrico Coiera
Australian Institute of Health Innovation - Centre for Health InformaticsStatement of Interests:
Developing models of human-computer interaction to support the rational, appropriate and sustainable development of technological interventions in health care. Developing of advanced knowledge management and decision support tools to assist with clinical decision making, including advanced search engine technologies. Understanding the impact of poor communication systems on health care delivery, with a focus on their role in error and inefficiency, as well as the development of technical and non-technical solutions to improve health organisation communicatio.
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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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| Dr Frances Cunningham
Australian Institute of Health Innovation - Centre for Clinical Governance Research in HealthStatement of Interests:
The evaluation of communities of practice and social-professional networks in the health sector: the development, design, testing, refinement, simulation and application of an evaluation framework.
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| Professor Geoffrey Delaney
South Western Sydney Clinical School - Department of MedicineStatement of Interests:
Radiation Oncology health services research focuses on studying the differences between current practice and what is proposed as optimal therapy using evidence-based medicine and understnding the reasons for the differences between the two. Our research group use the evidence-based treatment guidelines published in Cancer and calculates the ideal population of patients who should receive treatment and then examine reasons for shortfall.
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| Dr Sarah Dennis
Centre for Primary Health Care and EquityStatement of Interests:
Research into the diagnosis and management of chronic disease, particularly chronic respiratory disease, in primary care. Systematic reviews of evidence for complex interventions for policy.
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| Dr John Dewdney
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Comparative study of health service policy, planning, programs, process and product. Currently involved in the USAID-funded Capacity Project concerned with the development of health workforce planning tools and health information systems. Exploration of the history of medical education in Australia.
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| Dr Adam Dunn
Australian Institute of Health Innovation - Centre for Health InformaticsStatement of Interests:
The variability and dynamics of health care quality across conditions, geo-political boundaries, doctors, facilities is of particular interest. Social network models are used to assess organisational and system-wide behaviour attempting to improve healthcare practices by enhancing communication, dissemination and diffusion of best practices and the translation of new methods, technologies and evidence-based research.
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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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| Dr Margaret Faedo
Prince of Wales Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
One of the biggest challenges facing health care systems today is providing patients with access to new and emerging drug treatments, and at the same time ensuring the sustainability of funding. Local health care delivery systems, such as area health services, hospitals and private health insurers are under considerable pressure to fund medicines rejected, restricted or pending approval by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee. There is a need to develop freely available economic models that can adapt easily to local circumstances. This requires new policies and health care practices developed on the basis of sound clinical and economic evidence. Our NHMRC funded program aims to build and disseminate readily accessible evidence about the cost effectiveness of cancer medicines in clinical practice. These models will be available on the Cancer Institute NSW Standard Treatment (CI-SCaT) program, an online resource of more than 500 peer-reviewed cancer treatment guidelines. This is a world first program which will have implications beyond cancer management, addressing one of the most enduring problems in health care: the translation of economic evidence into policy and clinical practice.
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| Mr Kevin Forde
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
The economics of general practice, privatisation of health services and health insurance; the impact of tax deductibility of private health insurance premiums, doctors' incomes in Australia.
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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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| Associate Professor Deborah Green
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Long standing interest in evidence around the effectiveness of health services and of effective clinical governance
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| ![Show details for [<FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"><b>]Dr David Greenfield[</b><br>    <i>Australian Institute of He](/icons/expand.gif) Dr David Greenfield
Australian Institute of Health Innovation - Centre for Clinical Governance Research in HealthStatement of Interests:
I am interested in the development and enactment of (clinical) practice and how organisations shape and mediate learning and knowledge management. I am currently working on an ARC funded project researching the relationships between health service accreditation and clinical and organisational performance. Key research areas are: community of practice; innovation and change in health services; organisational culture and climate; learning and knowledge management; health service accreditation; qualitative research into clinical care, health organisations and health systems.
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| Professor Mark Harris
Centre for Primary Health Care and EquityStatement of Interests:
Major research interests include:- 1. Prevention and management chronic diseases especially diabetes cardiovascular disease, in primary care. 2. Health inequalities research including interventions to improve the health status of disadvantaged groups including the unemployed, refugees (asylum seekers) and Aboriginal people.
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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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| Mr Alan Hodgkinson
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Health services management development in resource-poor settings. Building management capacity in Australian health service managers.
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| Dr Wendy Hu
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
In clinical practice and policymaking, decisions are inevitably made under conditions of risk and uncertainty. My research concerns the nature of medical uncertainty, how doctors respond to it and communicate it to their patients.
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| Dr Susannah Jacob
South Western Sydney Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
Construction of evidence-based models of optimal utilisation of cancer treatments (chemotherapy and radiotherapy)for various cancer sites. Comparison of the optimal models with actual rates of utilisation to measure any shortfalls and assist in planning of health services.
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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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| Associate Professor Julie Johnson
Australian Institute of Health InnovationStatement of Interests:
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. The area of focus for her doctoral research was building an understanding of the structure, process, and outcomes of the clinical microsystem – the small group of providers and staff that care for a defined population of patients. She uses qualitative research methods – including focus groups, interviews, and observational studies – to better understand processes of care and the effect of the care process on clinical teams, teamwork, and patients and families. 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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| Dr Linda Kurti
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
The way in which decisions are reached regarding development and delivery or services both within the international health sector and within the Australian health system impacts upon access and uptake of services by those who are poor or marginalised. Organisational learning and the intentionality of services are key influences upon the equity of and access to health services and ultimately the effectiveness of health systems.
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| Ms Rachel Laws
Centre for Primary Health Care and EquityStatement of Interests:
The management of lifestyle risk factors in the primary health care context is of particular interest along with developing and testing interventions to reduce lifestyle risk factors.
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| Professor Siaw-Teng Liaw
Centre for Primary Health Care and EquityStatement of Interests:
Primary and integrated health care, delivered by a multiprofessional team is essential to optimal management of chronic diseases and promotion good quality of life. Continuity of information and management protocols are important mechanisms, along with relational continuity, are important facilitators and contributors to best practice and of beneficial patient outcomes. This confluence of clinical practice and informatics is a basic and essential skill in the health profession.
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| Dr Farah Magrabi
Australian Institute of Health Innovation - Centre for Health InformaticsStatement of Interests:
Dr. Farah Magrabi is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales Centre for Health Informatics within the Australian Institute of Health Innovation. Her research expertise is in the safety and evaluation of clinical decision support technologies. She has qualifications in Health Informatics (PhD UNSW 2003) and Electrical Engineering (B.E. Auck 1997). Farah leads CHI’s Research Program on Clinical Systems Safety Engineering focussed on investigating the safety of clinical ICT systems and designing interventions to reduce the risks of ICT to patient safety.
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| Ms Michelle Maxwell
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Understanding of the influences of urban environments on population health and how urban development and urban renewal can improve health outcomes for communities. Evidence regarding health impacts of urban development and renewal. Application of an evidence-based approach to population health
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| Ms Julie McDonald
Centre for Primary Health Care and EquityStatement of Interests:
Primary Health Care Policy research Comparing primary health care models Interorganisational and interprofessional relationships in primary health care
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| Dr Geoff McDonnell
Australian Institute of Health Innovation - Centre for Health InformaticsStatement of Interests:
Health Systems Simulation using Multiscale Modeling, Complex Systems Analysis and Management, Health Systems Design. Simulation of the interactions among policy, practice, workforce expertise and technology using system dynamics, discrete event and agent based simulation
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| Dr Suzanne McKenzie
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Major focus on the impact of mental health (psychological distress)on the prevention of cardiovascular disease via interactions with other cardiovascular risk factors including lifestyle and physiological factors. Other main areas of interest include shared decision making in the context of multidisciplinary care, impact of absolute cardiovascular risk assessment on the management of cardiovasular risk factors and health promotion via general practice such as via routine health checks.
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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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| Ms Lois Meyer
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Lois Meyer has worked as a consultant in human resource development and strategic learning systems for a range of public and private organisations for over twenty years. For the last five years she has drawn on that body of work to undertake curriculum development and research in areas related to HRD, and professional education and development, particularly within the health sector. She has increasingly focused her research on professional formation and development in public health and health service management in local and international contexts. Lois is involved in researching teaching and learning practice within the postgraduate education programs with the School. As a Chief Investigator for the AusAID funded HRH Knowledge Hub Lois is undertaking a research project with partners to identify effective strategies for enhancing leadership and management capacity in health service contexts in the Asia Pacific region. Lois is also undertaking her PhD researching the formation of public health practitioners and the challenges of learning to make 'good professional judgements' within current and emerging population health issues and priorities.
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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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| Ms Sally Nathan
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Sally's career has been focused on giving voice to consumers and the community, in particular those who have been historically excluded from participation and decision-making in societal organisations and structures, including complex health systems. Sally is a social scientist who uses qualitative and quantitative methods in her research within a participatory framework where research participants are actively involved in the research process. Sally has theorised and empiricised consumer/community exclusion and participation in a number of areas, including health service decision-making and governance (the topic of her PhD due for completion in 2010), advocacy by the non-government sector, capacity building for health development, adolescent drug and alcohol treatment and refugee settlement. She has published papers relating to consumer and community participation, the use of evidence in policy-making, the advocacy role of the non-government sector and the workings of the health system, in peer-reviewed journals and consumer focused publications. Sally is first Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Linkage funded three-year grant: Social Cohesion through Football (2009-2011), a cohort impact study investigating the implementation of a sport for social development program over three years. Previous research student supervision: PhD: The role of peer educators in promoting quality use of medicines among seniors, 2008. ILPs: 1) Finding structure and fitting in: The experience of drug-dependent adolescents in a residential life management program, 2006. 2)An ethonographic study of Football in the Park: An initiative for refugee youth in the Western Suburbs 2008 - Community Development through Sport: Lessons from Football United’s ‘Football in the Park’, 2008 3) Developing a pilot outreach program for the disadvantaged population in Redfern/Waterloo: Scoping study for a student-assisted health clinic, 2009
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| Dr Peter Nugus
Australian Institute of Health Innovation - Centre for Clinical Governance Research in HealthStatement of Interests:
Peter has a background in political science and sociology. Peter has participated in numerous health research and evaluation projects, and has published on organisational aspects of acute care, the sociology of Emergency Departments, qualitative methods, political rhetoric and Australian politics. Peter is currently working on interprofessional learning and practice in an action-research project in the Australian Capital Territory. Peter aims to undertake research that enhances health work processes to the benefit of consumers, and that enhances the profile of qualitative research among clinicians and policy-makers.
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| Associate Professor Rod O'Connor
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
The way healthcare practitioners, patients, and people generally, make decisions, in particular the apparently non-normative aspects. These include:
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| Dr Bin Ong
South Western Sydney Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
Main interests are in - Geriatric Medicine - Thromboembolic diseases - Models of care including hospital in the home, ambulatory care and medical assessment units.
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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 Gawaine Powell-Davies
Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity - Centre for G.P. Integration StudiesStatement of Interests:
Health services integration, including integration within primary health care and integration between primary health care and other sectors. The evolving role of primary health care within the health system.
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| Associate Professor Judy Proudfoot
School of Psychiatry - Black Dog InstituteStatement of Interests:
1. Using digital and electronic technologies for psychological treatment, psycho-education, self-monitoring and support for people with mental health conditions. Delivery mechanisms include mobile phones, the Internet and CD-ROM. Collaborative work with psychologists and psychiatrists in Australia and the UK.
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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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| Ms Vanessa Rose
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Community development approaches to health equity, particularly development of research and evaluation frameworks for community projects. Community-based participatory research methods and intersectoral models of community capacity building. Another interest involves the use of psychological theory and methods in improving the health of people who are disadvantaged and/or have chronic disease.
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| Dr Tuly Rosenfeld
Prince of Wales Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
Emergency departments and the elderly; medications in the elderly; speech and nutrition in the elderly; swallowing disorders. Pre and Post Acute Care of Older People Pharmacy and Ageing
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| Emeritus Professor Arie Rotem
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Evaluation and Development of Health Services, Capacity Building and Institutional Strengthening in Health, Health Workforce Development; Integration of education and health services development; enhancing professional effectiveness; learning environments in health settings
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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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| Associate Professor Tom Shakespeare
Rural Clinical School - Mid North Coast Division - Coffs HarbourStatement of Interests:
Treatment of prostate cancer using hormone therapy and radiotherapy, including new techniques such as intensity-modulated radiotherapy. Includes measures of efficacy (PSA response, survival), side-effects and QOL. Also research including patient involvement in decision-making, and decision-regret. Treatment of breast cancer including outcomes following intensity modulated radiotherapy. Also research of patient involvement in decision-making, and decision-regret. Education of oncologists including evaluation of performance using peer-review audit and adherence to State protocols. Various research projects of radiotherapy techniques including intensity-modulated radiotherapy, image guidance, volumatric arc therapy etc.
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| Dr Heather Shepherd
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Heather Shepherd was awarded her PhD in July 2008, thesis entitled "Involving patients in treatment decision-making: the views and attitudes of Australian cancer doctors to shared decision-making" Heather is a health communication researcher with qualifications in health and language studies, a clinical background in nursing and a doctorate in Psychological Medicine. Her undergraduate studies gave her an understanding of communication and her move into nursing enabled her to carry that knowledge to a field of social value and importance. Experience as a critical care nurse showed the importance of communication skills in highly emotive situations for patients and in high pressure situations for staff. These experiences underpin her commitment to developing and promoting good communication in healthcare. Commencing her research career in 2003 working with Professors Martin Tattersall and Phyllis Butow at University of Sydney and recently awarded an NHMRC Public Health Fellowship through School of Public Health & Community Medicine, UNSW, focussing of faciltating evidence-based partnerships between health professionals and health consumers.
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| Dr Alison Short
Australian Institute of Health Innovation - Centre for Clinical Governance Research in HealthStatement of Interests:
From a broad research experience base, interests include health communication, multidisciplinary research in the clinical setting, investigating the research needs of clinicians, links between noise and stress, multicultural issues, psychosocial effects of physical illness and treatment, and professional music therapy (including relaxation and mental imagery). This occurs within the context of clinical trials and audits, qualitative and mixed method research approaches and as linked to areas including aged care and graduate workforce issues.
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| Professor Daniel Tarantola
School of Public Health and Community Medicine - Initiative for Health and Human RightsStatement of Interests:
The UNSW Initiative for Health and Human Rights (IHHR) is a multidisciplinary research, teaching, service and advocacy initiative founded collectively by the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, Law and Medicine. The IHHR advances Health and Human Rights as both an area of study and a new, composite method of research applicable to: (1) Building the evidence of the synergy between health and rights; (2) Improving Governance and its impact on health and rights; (3) Focusing on vulnerable populations; and (4) Exploring the interface between health, development, human rights, poverty and globalization.
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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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| Ms Joanne Travaglia
Australian Institute of Health Innovation - Centre for Clinical Governance Research in HealthStatement of Interests:
Iatrogenisis and the social dimensions of medical errors.
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| Associate Professor Shalini Vinod
South Western Sydney Clinical School - Department of MedicineStatement of Interests:
My main research interest is in lung cancer and the impact of multidisciplinary care on lung cancer outcomes. Currently there is prospective data collection on patients discussed at our multidisciplinary meetings and future research would include analysis of these data and comparison to cancer registry data. My current research includes: 1. Lung Cancer Patterns of Care in NSW. 2. Impact of PET CT fusion on Radiotherapy Planning. 3. Audit of Lung Cancer Multidisciplinary Meetings at Liverpool and Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centres.
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| Associate Professor Anna Klinken Whelan
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Anna Klinken Whelan has made a major contribution to research with vulnerable groups, focusing on health system responses, especially in multicultural and refugee health services; in particular on the cross-cutting and strategic area of diversity management and leadership. She has increasingly focused recent research in international health systems/management, including global concerns regarding human resources in health such as skilled health migration and the use of paraprofessionals and unskilled health workers in workforce shortage situations. Her clinical and public health research concentrates on reproductive health services and evaluation in developing country contexts; particularly in crisis situations.
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| Professor Leslie White AM
School of Women's and Children's HealthStatement of Interests:
Child Health Services exemplify the leading edge of current reform and improvement agendas, with specific emphasis on networking, interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork. Communication and partnership are dominant themes, with respect to not only professionals but also the broader scope of consumers, community groups and other stakeholders. The impact of cultural determinants, whether personal, ethnic or professional, are specific aspects of research interest in understanding appropriate healthcare delivery.
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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 Adrienne Withall
School of Psychiatry - Dementia Collaborative Research CentreStatement of Interests:
Currently my focus is on younger people with dementia and their carers. My other interests include the mental health of older persons, positive and successful ageing, cognitive function and its role in predicting recovery from mental illness, mild cognitive impairment and the dementias and the psychiatric sequelae of stroke.
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| Professor Nick Zwar
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Chronic disease management in general practice and primary health care, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, intervention on risk factors for chronic disease in particular smoking cessation programs; health promotion in primary care; quality use of medicines.
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| Professor Anthony Zwi
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Professor Zwi focuses on international health and policy and has interests in their interface with equity, social justice and human rights. He seeks to build Australia and Asia-Pacific partnerships and capabilities in public health, health policy, and disaster planning, management and response. He has worked most extensively in the past year in Timor-Leste (East Timor), but also has had recent research projects in Sri Lanka, the Solomon Islands and Cambodia. He is interested in understanding, and improving mechanisms, to facilitate evidence-informed health and development policy. Professor Zwi is keen to build links between humanitarian relief and development organisations and academic institutions. He has interests in injury and violence as public health problems. He heads a team exploring how health-related interventions in countries which have experienced disasters and wars could be more sensitive to culture, conflict, and to rebuilding trust and social cohesion. He and colleagues work on the ethics of research in conflict-affected settings, and the role of service providers and community members, including young people, in shaping and influencing research and responses to violent political conflict. He is keen to build links with health, development and humanitarian NGOs which have a commitment to research and lesson-learning.
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