Who are the staff I would work with?
Masters research students usually have 2 supervisors, but all staff can contribute to a students' project. One supervisor must be an academic based at the School of Rural Health while others may have honorary appointments or be working collaboratively with the School.
The academic staff at the School of Rural Health have broad and multidisciplinary perspectives on rural health issues including:
Prof Bill Adam —a renal Physician with interests in health services management. wadam@unimelb.edu.au .
Assoc/Prof Lisa Bourke —a sociologist with interest in community well-being, rural youth, Koori and issues facing rural consumers. Email: bourke@unimelb.edu.au .
Dr Douglas Boyle – Senior Research Fellow (Informatics) with a focus on disease management. Technical proficiencies include all aspects of enterprise-wide database development. E-mail: dboyle@unimelb.edu.au
Assoc/Prof Lisanne Burkholder— a Physician with interests in rural medical education and quality medical care. Email: lisanneb@unimelb.edu.au .
Dr Jennifer Critchley —a nurse with interest in women's health, race and ethnicity and emergency and orthopaedic nursing practice. Email: crj@unimelb.edu.au .
Dr Andrew Crowden —a mental health nurse with interest in bioethics, clinical decision-making rural mental health service provision. Email: acrowden@unimelb.edu.au .
Dr Lena Cross —a biomedical researcher with interest in health information systems. Email: m.cross@unimelb.edu.au .
Prof Dawn DeWitt —a Physician with interests in diabetes and rural medical education. ddewitt@unimelb.edu.au .
Dr Andrew Lovett - awlovett@unimelb.edu.au
Assoc/Prof Julie Pallant - jpallant@unimelb.edu.au
Dr David Pierce - d.pierce@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Sundram Sivamalai —a nurse with interests in needs analysis, program evaluation and community partnerships. Email: sundrams@unimelb.edu.au .
Dr Elaine Tan —a pharmacist with interest in attitudes towards and practices of prescribing. Email: elainet@unimelb.edu.au .
Dr Michael Tynan —an anthropologist with interest in the social determinants of Koori Health, development and delivery of cross-cultural training and racial discrimination. Email: mtynan@unimelb.edu.au .
Ms Liz Williams —a physiotherapist with interest in rural health professional education and physical rehabilitation including paediatrics. Email: e.williams@unimelb.edu.au .
For more information about these staff, their current research projects and past publications, see our website: http://www.ruralhealth.unimelb.edu.au/our staff