Evidence Direct: Evidence Week '07 Presenter biographies |
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Colin Masters:
Colin Masters is a Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne and Executive Director of the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria. He is a consultant with Melbourne Health and Neurosciences Australia, Chair of the National Health Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council, and co-director of the Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Case Registry. His main research interests concern Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders including the prion diseases (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease). His achievements have been recognised by the receipt of many international awards, and he is a prolific author covering multidisciplinary aspects of the neurodegenerative disorders.
Janet Wale:
Janet Wale is the International Convenor of the Cochrane Consumer Network and one of two Consumer Network members of the Steering Group of The Cochrane Collaboration. Janet has a background as a pharmacologist working in medical research, before stopping work because of health reasons and becoming a dedicated health consumer representative and advocate in Australia and internationally.
Anastasia Hutchinson:
Ana Hutchinson is a Respiratory Nurse Consultant at Melbourne Health with a background in Critical Care Nursing and Clinical Epidemiology. She is currently completing a PhD looking at effective strategies for management of COPD exacerbations in a community setting. Over the past 3 years she has been involved in a pilot program teaching EBP to nurses at Melbourne Health and has tutored in the medical student EBP training program with Peter Greenberg. Today she will be discussing issues associated with teaching EBP to clinical nurses at RMH.
Kirstie Galbraith:
Kirstie Galbraith is the Senior Pharmacist, Research & Education at RMH and Clinical Senior lecturer at The Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University. She coordinates the Master of Clinical Pharmacy program at Monash which includes a semester long unit in Evidence Based Practice. She runs a program for newly graduated pharmacists at RMH, which includes aspects of EBP.
Peter Greenberg:
Peter Greenberg trained at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and at the University of Melbourne Department of Medicine. He was a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) post-graduate scholar, Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) Overseas Fellow, Gordon-Taylor scholar, Research Fellow and Honorary Registrar in the Endocrine Unit at the Royal Post-Graduate Medical School in London. Positions at RMH since 1974 include: Physician to Outpatients, Physician (General Medicine, Endocrine Unit, HIV/Aids Service, Infectious Disease Service, Bone & Mineral Service), Chairman General Medical Service, Head General Medical Unit, Director General Medical Services [Western Health Care Network], Chairman General Medical Services [North Western Health] and Clinical Director, General Medical Services. Currently, he is Head of a general medical unit and Project Director, Evidence Based Practice, Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Evaluation Unit. He was appointed Senior Associate, University of Melbourne Department of Medicine, RMH in 1974, Principal Fellow in1999, and Associate Professor, School of Population Health in 2005.
Kathleen Steele:
Kathleen is Senior Nurse Manager for Melbourne Health Diabetes Service since 2004. She is a Registered Nurse and has worked in Diabetes Education for 25 years.
Carol Jewell:
Carol Jewell worked for many years as an Occupational Therapist in Neurological Rehabilitation. She took an avid interest in developing coordinated interdisciplinary rehabilitation services for people with complex neurological conditions and completed her Master degree in Neurological Rehabilitation in 1998. Since then she has developed an interest in outcome measurement through her work at the Neurological Rehabilitation Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London. Carol moved to Australia in 2002 and has subsequently applied the systematic evaluation of outcomes measures in her work at Multiple Sclerosis Australia. She also provides consultation on outcome measurement to a range of Health Services and is currently working at Melbourne Health as an Allied Health Clinical Educator.
Terence Harrison:
Terence Harrison is the Clinical Librarian at RMH and webmaster of the Evidence Direct site. He studied Education at Leeds University and Information Management (Grad. Dip.) at RMIT. He has previously sourced a Knowledge Management system at the National Institute for Clinical Studies; took charge of Indexing at the Australian Council for Educational Research; and worked for a number of years as Medical Librarian for the NHS in the UK. He has had a diverse career and has worked in commercial web design and investigative journalism, has lectured in Professional Writing, and spent ten years in advertising. He is also a novelist, and in his London years organised rock concerts by groups such as UB40 and Chumbawamba. He is a former member of the National Union of Journalists, the Institute of IT Training, and the Society of Editors (all UK).
Kate Leslie:
Kate Leslie is a staff Anaesthetist in the Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Honorary A/Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne. She was the Chief Investigator of the POISE study in our region.
Julie Miller:
Julie Miller ss Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons; a Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne; is Consultant General Surgeon, at Breast/Endocrine/Oncology Unit, and Principal Trauma Surgeon, Trauma Unit – both at RMH; is Consultant General Surgeon at Royal Women’s Hospital; is Head of the Thyroid Tumour Group – Melbourne Comprehensive Cancer Centre; has spearheaded the development and implementation of thyroid cancer database at RMH; and is the Advanced Medical Science Course Coordinator, and Supervisor, University of Melbourne.
Ornella Clavisi:
Ornella is Project Manager of the Global Evidence Mapping Initiative Project. She worked for 8 years as a senior evaluator at the Centre for Clinical Effectiveness (CCE), Monash Institute of Health Services Research, where she worked on a number of Health Technology Assessments for various Government Agencies including the Medical Services Advisory Committee, Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee and the Department of Human Services. Ornella has a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and has worked extensively in the area of evidence-based practice and particularly in systematic reviews and research methodology. Ornella also has extensive experience in primary research working as the Research Coordinator of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) where she worked on a number of multicentre studies in anaesthesia, perioperative medicine and pain medicine.
Kirstie Buising:
Kirsty Buising is infectious diseases physician at St Vincents Hospital. She also works as a clinical research fellow in VIDS at RMH and is completing her MD on the role of computerised decision support in antibiotic stewardship. She also has a Masters in Public Health.
Karin Thursky:
Karin Thursky is an Infectious disease physician who has been researching and developing computerised decision support systems at the RMH since 1999. She is a key developer of Guidance. Her interests include implementation of best practice guidelines and antibiotic stewardship.
Vaidyanathan Swaminathan:
Vaidy Swaminathan is originally from India, where he trained initially as a Psychiatrist. He came to Australia in 2002. Currently he is Consultant Psychiatrist at the Northern Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team and one of 3 consultants at Northern Psychiatric In-patient Unit. He is also the Area Director for Electro-Convulsive Therapy for the Northern Area Mental Health Service. He is planning to commence a full-time PhD next year.
Elisa Ilarda:
Elisa Ilarda is a psychologist with a background in clinical, forensic psychology, and private practice. She has completed a Masters degree in Psychology and was previously a Senior Psychologist for Corrections and a clinical teacher for Melbourne and Monash University. She is currently the Co-ordinator for the management of clinical aggression project across Melbourne Health.
Fary Khan:
Fary Khan is the Neurological Rehabilitation Physician at Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Royal Park Campus, is Head of Orthopaedic and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Unit for Bayside Health, is an Honorary Fellow of the Department of Epidemiology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and an Honorary Fellow of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Melbourne, and is Representative for the Western Pacific Region World Health Organization, Disability and Function - ICF Research Branch of WHO.
Louisa Ng:
Louisa Ng works as a rehabilitation physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Royal Park Campus. Her main areas of interest are neuro-rehabilitation and musculoskeletal rehabilitation.
Peter Morley:
Peter Morley is the Intensive care Specialist at RMH. He has more than 15 years involvement in the evidence evaluation process, including undertaking evidence work for the National Health & Medical Research Council, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, and the Australian Resuscitation Council. He has represented the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society, and has been a member of the Australian Resuscitation Council since 1990. Via both organisations he has been involved in the development of international evidence based guidelines. More recently he was appointed ILCOR Evidence Evaluation Expert for the 2010 science evaluation process.
Catherine Voutier:
Catherine Voutier is an Information Research Officer at the Centre for Clinical Effectiveness, Southern Health. She has worked there for 6 years. Currently she is investigating Horizon Scanning systems and is researching the possibility of establishing one at Southern Health.
Lisa Barker:
Lisa Barker has been working in gastrointestinal surgery at Royal Melbourne Hospital for just over a year. Prior to that, she has worked in similar positions both in England and at Peninsula Health. Lisa has a strong interest in critical care and surgical nutrition and is keen to continue research into improving outcomes of surgical patients via best practice nutrition care.
Steve Davis:
Stephen Davis is Chair, World Stroke Congress; Director, Department of Neurology, Royal Melbourne Hospital; and President, Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists. He is also Professor of Neurology, University of Melbourne and Director of the Division of Neurosciences and the Department of Neurology, Royal Melbourne Hospital. He is the Head of the Stroke Research Program at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Chair of the Melbourne Health Medical Advisory Committee. He has extensive experience in cerebrovascular research, with particular interests in acute interventional therapies, new magnetic resonance imaging techniques in brain ischemia, as well as secondary prevention and brain recovery.
Laura Browning:
Laura Browning is a physiotherapist in the surgery and critical care team at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. She is also currently completing her PhD at The University of Melbourne and holds a teaching position at the university.
Anne McGann:
Anne McGann is a Clinical Grade 4 Physiotherapist, and the Coordinator of the RMH Falls & Balance Clinic, and the RMH Vestibular Rehabilitation Service. She was awarded Churchill Fellowship 2004 to travel to USA and UK for further training in Vestibular Rehabilitation and to view best practice at internationally renowned Diagnostic and Rehabiltation centres. On return to Melbourne Health, and with the support of Professor Keith Hill, the RMH Vestibular Rehabilitation Service was established in May 2004.
Emily FitzGerald:
Emily FitzGerald is a Credentialled Diabetes Nurse Educator.
Karen Palmer:
Karen Palmer is a Credentialled Diabetes Nurse Educator.
Mary Hemming:
Mary Hemming was trained as both a pharmacist and an epidemiologist. She commenced her career as a hospital pharmacist working in major teaching hospitals in London and Melbourne. In the late 1970s she was a part of the Melbourne-based group responsible for the concept and evolution of Therapeutic Guidelines (TGL). She played a key role in the group and was able to guide the enterprise and transform it from a government-funded venture into an independent self-sustaining not-for-profit organisation, which is both nationally and internationally recognised.
Geoff McColl:
Geoff McColl is the Clinical Dean of the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Western Hospital Clinical School at the University of Melbourne. He is also a visiting rheumatologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. His undergraduate medical training was completed at the University of Melbourne including a BMedSc at the Repatriation General Hospital. After internship and residency at the Austin and Repatriation General Hospitals he completed advanced training in rheumatology attaining his FRACP in 1992. He completed a PhD examining antigen-specific immune responses in patients with recent-onset rheumatoid arthritis at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in 1996. Apart from his current roles in the University and Hospital, A/Professor McColl is Honorary Secretary of the Australian Rheumatology Association and a member of Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee. In addition, he is completing a MEd examining the teaching of clinical reasoning to medical students supervised by the Centre for the Study of Higher Education.
Debbie Munro:
Debbie Munro is Physiotherapy Manager. Prior to that appointment, she was a Senior Clinician Physiotherapist with a special interest in cardio-respiratroy physiotherapy. Debbie has worked in various Intensive Care Units and other respiratory units in Australia and overseas. She completed her Clinical Masters in Cardio-respiratory Physiotherapy in 1999. Her physiotherapy colleagues still appreciate her enthusiasm for discussions about "Sputum".
Colin Dawson:
Colin Dawson is Divisional Director of Nursing – Neurosciences, Cardiac and Intensive care; prior to that he was Manager, Nursing Education Services for Melbourne Health; and before that, he was Postgraduate Program Co-ordinator & Clinical Nurse Educator, Intensive Care. His association with the Royal Melbourne Hospital goes back as far as 1985.
Sophie Hill:
Sophie Hill is the Co-ordinating Editor of the Cochrane Review Group on Consumers and Communication. She is a senior research fellow at La Trobe University, where her research interests are people's experiences of health care. She is responsible for two new reports published by the Victorian Quality Council, which provide the lessons and a guide for quality improvement on issues of communication with patients using an evidence-based approach.
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