Media Expertise -- Medicine & Medical Research
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| Person | Expertise |
|---|---|
| Adjunct Professor David Haynes | Bones; regulation of bone cell metabolism by cytokines; regulation of inflammation by cytokines; loosening of joint prostheses |
| Professor Sandra Hodge | chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD]; emphysema; asthma; cell biology; novel therapies |
| Professor Shaun McColl | Rheumatoid arthritis (molecular biology of, especially the role of chemokine networks in acute and chronic inflammatory processes); proteomics (study of proteins, links with cancer and other diseases); MS; multiple sclerosis; autoimmune diseases (molecular biology of, especially the role of chemokine networks in acute and chronic inflammatory processes); proteins (study of proteins, links with cancer and other diseases) |
| Professor Sarah Robertson | reproductive biology and function; infertility (implantation failure, recurrent spontaneous abortion, uterine receptivity); embryo (in vitro culture, growth factors, IVF); Pregnancy (immunology of pregnancy, early pregnancy, embryo implantation, insemination and pregnancy, animal models) |
| Professor Chris Burrell | HIV; AIDS; virus infections in humans; immunology; immunisation; flu; influenza; hepatitis; common viruses; Ebola |
| Professor Jennifer Couper | Paediatrics; diabetes; endocrinology |
| Professor Rachel Gibson | mucositis; supportive care in cancer; side effects of cancer treatment; anatomy, physiology and pathology of the gastrointestinal tract; oral mucosa; tertiary education |
| Professor Donald Howie | Orthopaedics, ie hip & knee joint replacement and revision surgery; young adult hip disorders and early arthritis. |
| Professor Mark Hutchinson | Neuroscience; Immunology; Pharmacology; Drug Addiction; Microglia; Cytokine; Chemokine; Pain; Reward; Opioid; Opiate; Alcoholism; Immunogenetics; Toll Like Receptor; Astrocyte; Drug Abuse; Glia; Inflammation; Drug Development; Analgesia; Pain killer; biophotonics; collaboration; science governance; |
| none registered Zoe Jordan | Communication strategy; international collaboration in health research; health improvement; health improvement in developing countries; evidence based practice; evidence based healthcare; change management; systematic reviews; evidence synthesis; evidence/knowledge transfer; evidence utilisation/implementation |
| Professor Richard Logan | Side effects of cancer treatment; Mucositis; Cancer (oral cancer); Oral and maxillofacial pathology |
| Professor Guy Ludbrook | Drugs (anaesthetic, delivery); neuropharmacology; medical monitoring; intensive care; anaesthesia; anaesthetics; anaesthetic drugs; drug delivery |
| Professor Guy Maddern | Surgery |
| Professor Sandy McFarlane | post traumatic stress disorder; anxiety; trauma; PTSD; military; DSM-IV; psychophysiology; somatic; disasters; bushfire; bushfires; Ash Wednesday; psychology; psychiatry |
| Professor Tracy Merlin | Evidence-based health care; Evidence-based health policy; Health technology assessment (HTA); systematic literature reviews; meta-analysis; Diagnostic tests; Personalised medicine; Developing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines; Disinvestment methodology and processes |
| Professor Maree O'Keefe | medical education; child health; consumer participation; community engagement |
| Professor Jeremy Thompson | Embryology; reproduction |
| Professor Wayne Tilley | Prostate cancer, breast cancer; hormones and other factors involved in ageing and cancer; development of resistance to cancer therapies. |
| Professor Gary Wittert | endocrinology; obesity; diabetes mellitus; weight loss; men's health; androgens; erectile dysfunction; ageing. |
| Dr Adrian Abdo | endothelial cells; endothelial dysfunction; cardiovascular disease; nitric oxide; free radicals; biochemistry; physiology; zinc; smoking; endothelin-1 |
| Professor John Beltrame | Coronary spasm; coronary microvascular disease; angina; ischaemic heart disease |
| Professor Peng Bi | Climate change and population health; environmental epidemiology; infectious disease epidemiology |
| Professor Joanne Bowen | mucositis; chemotherapy; radiotherapy; cancer; gut; intestine; transcriptomics; inflammation; rodent models of disease |
| Dr Femke Buisman-Pijlman | addiction, individual differences in behaviour, neurobiology, oxytocin, social interaction, stress, alcohol, drugs, long-term impact early adversity, social neuroscience, neuroscience, online learning, professional development for health professionals |
| Ms Monique Chilver | vaccination; influenza; surveillance; vaccine effectiveness; flu, respiratory viruses, infectious diseases; communicable diseases |
| Associate Professor Lyndsey Collins-Praino | Neuroscience; Alzheimer's disease; Parkinson's disease; ageing; Neuroanatomy; Neuropathology; cognition; inflammation; memory; prevention of cognitive decline; dementia; Immunology; Pharmacology; drug development; preclinical trials; cytokine; astrocyte; microglia; dopamine; acetylcholine; adenosine; hippocampus; basal ganglia; neurochemistry; neurotransmitter release; women in science; community outreach; university teaching |
| Dr Richard Couper | Paediatrics |
| Dr Brendon Coventry | Melanoma; breast cancer; surgery; surgical oncology; vaccine treatment of cancer; skin cancer; immunology; immune system and cancer; cancer treatment; surgical complications; clinical skills; epidemiology |
| Professor Michael Davies | Epidemiology, fertility, human reproduction, social structure, assisted reproduction, assisted reproduction technologies, birth defects from assisted reproduction |
| Mr Peter Devitt | Upper gastrointestinal disease; laparascopic surgical techniques; medicine; surgery; antireflux surgery; reflux; endoscopy; cancer of the oesophagus; oesophagectomy |
| Professor Cherrie Galletly | Memory; Working memory (and its effects on schizophrenia); schizophrenia among young people; schizophrenia; youth; academic psychiatry; PTSD; professional boundaries; obesity; medicolegal |
| Dr Mounir Ghabriel | Multimedia in teaching the anatomy of the human body; blood vessels of the brain in health and disease; Blood-brain barrier, Head trauma Cereral oedema in brain trauma research |
| Dr Mark Gibson | Cell and molecular biology (of elastic fibres); congenital disorders of connective tissues; extracellular matrix biology |
| Professor Michael Gold | Allergy; the immune system and cancer; paediatrics |
| Emeritus Professor Alastair Goss | Cancer (oral); oral cancer; oral and maxillofacial surgery; trauma; dentistry; chronic face pain; dentistry (oral and maxillofacial surgery); bisphosphonates; osteonecrosis of the jaws (ONJ); ONJ; independent medicolegal assessment; |
| Professor Leonie Heilbronn | Obesity; fasting; weight loss; nutrition; diabetes risk; developmental origins of disease; fat cells |
| Professor Gordon Howarth | Animal models;gastrointestinal disease;bioactives;nutraceuticals;plant extracts;animal oils;probiotics;prebiotics;synbiotics;digestive health |
| Professor Glyn Jamieson | Upper gastrointestinal disease; laparascopic surgical techniques; reflux disease; liver surgery; antireflux surgery; cancer of the oesophagus; oesophagectomy; upper gastrointestinal surgery |
| Adjunct Professor Jonathan Karnon | cost-effectiveness analysis; health technology assessment; decision analytic modeling; quality improvement |
| Professor Declan Kennedy | Pulmonary medicine; paediatrics; sleep studies; medicine; sleep |
| Dr Jaliya Kumaratilake | Comparative anatomy; histology; electron microscopy; immunohistochemistry; reproductive biology |
| Dr Afzal Mahmood | Community development; public health; health management information systems; health systems development; international health; reproductive health systems |
| Professor Jane Mathias | Alzheimer's Disease; brain damage (cognitive and behavioural consequences); severe brain damage; mild brain damage; traumatic brain injury; neuropsychology; Parkinson's Disease; clinical neuropsychology (brain damage; traumatic brain injury; Alzheimer's Disease; Parkinson's Disease); psychology |
| Mr Paul McLiesh | Orthopaedic Nursing Education & Practice |
| Associate Professor Julian McNeil | musculoskeletal manifestations of diabetes rheumatology veteran cars (1900-1918) |
| Professor Vivienne Moore | Research in social and behavioural influences on health and life-course perspectives; epidemiology |
| Associate Professor Renato Morona | microbiology; bacteria; disease; molecular biology; lipopolysaccharides; outer memrbane proteins; virulence; bacterial pathogenesis; shigella; dysentery; salmonella; |
| Associate Professor John Moss | Health economics and health services research |
| Dr Ian Musgrave | Alzheimer's disease, neurodegeneration, neuropharmacology, amyloid, antioxidants, natural products as drugs, toxicology, toxicology of natural products, herbal medicine toxicology, molecular toxicology, molecular pharmacology, receptor structure and function, Pharmacology Teaching |
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