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Chief Investigators |
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Dr Christine Phillips |
Dr Christine Phillips is both a general practitioner and a senior lecturer in the Academic Unit of General Practice, ANU Medical School. In addition to her medical degree, she has an MA in anthropology and helped develop the social foundations of medicine teaching at ANU Medical School. She is thus well versed in qualitative methods. Her personal experience using the rapid appraisal technique as part of research in West Africa will be of great benefit to the project. Dr Phillips has undertaken research in professionalism among general practice registrars, and in attitudes towards models of research participation among GPs. |
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Dr Kathryn Dwan |
Dr Kathryn Dwan is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research School of Social Science, Australian National University, and is investigating the ways in which society regulates health services to improve quality and safety. Her PhD qualitatively examined the communication difficulties experienced by general practitioners and commonwealth officers during the 1990s, a period of enormous change in general practice. Her published work covers changes in GP training and education, GPs' use of health informatics, as well as intra-professional disputes. Hence, her research program addresses the APHCRI priority for improving organisation and linkages within the primary health care sector |
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Dr Christopher Pearce |
Dr Chris Pearce is a board member of ADGP and is therefore well positioned to ensure organisational support for the project and to encourage linkages across the primary health care sector. In addition to one and a half days of clinical practice per week, he is pursing his doctorate through the University of Melbourne. Dr Pearce has also researched and published in the areas of prescribing, education and doctor-patient relationships |
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Associate Investigators |
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Professor Bonnie Sibbald |
Professor Bonnie Sibbald is Professor of Health Services Research and Deputy Director of the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester. She is an international expert on nursing in general practice, and has published widely on the topic. She has been an invited guest both in Australia, to speak on the issues surrounding utilisation of nurses in general practice. Professor Sibbald's involvement in the research will ensure not only that Australian research will benefit from the UK experience, but will also provide an avenue for disseminating the findings of this research internationally. |
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Ms Julie Porritt |
Julie is a registered nurse with thirty years experience in the health field, twelve at senior management levels. Julie has had responsibility for the ADGP program for two years and has run national and state based workshops on the development of nursing roles. In addition she has managed federally funded projects on developing business case models of nurses in general practice, and has conducted a nationwide survey of nurses in general practice. |
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Ms Rachel Yates |
Previous to her work at ADGP, Rachel was a research manager at the Academic Unit of General Practice, ANU Medical School and is experienced in the development, implementation and management of general practice based research projects |
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Management |
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Ms Leanne Wells |
Leanne has previously held senior management positions within the Commonwealth Health and Family and Community Services portfolios. Responsible for policy development and program management in a range of health and social policy areas such as mental health, suicide prevention, family policy, and drug strategy spanning a fifteen year public policy career. |
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Professor Marjan Kljakovic |
Marjan’s research interests are in the areas of health informatics, evidence-based medicine and the philosophy of medicine. However, his publications have focused on the quality of clinical care provided in general practice for injury, asthma, and sore throat problems in general practice. Furthermore, he has explored the ‘gaps’ between ideal and actual care of asthma, men’s health, and mental health care in
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