Staff CHSR

Holman, D'Arcy

Professor D'Arcy Holman holds the Foundation Chair in Public Health at UWA and, in 2006, was awarded Australia's Sydney Sax Public Health Medal for outstanding contribution to promoting and protecting the health of the community, solving public health problems, advancing community awareness of public health measures and advancing the ideals and practice of equity in the provision of health care. Originally the Centre's inaugural director, Professor Holman is currently CHSR's Senior Expert Researcher.

D'Arcy.Holman@uwa.edu.au

Preen, David

Dr David Preen is the Director of the Centre for Health Services Research at the School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia. His current research interests include the impact of co-morbidity and ‘burden of disease' on health outcomes, as well as novel methodological research design using population-based medical record linkage. Further, Dr Preen is currently investigating health outcomes, service utilisation and chronic disease management in the WA diabetic community as well as conducting projects into the areas of adverse drug reactions in older Australians, psychostimulant prescribing patterns for the treatment of ADHD in children and health outcomes following bariatric surgery.

David.Preen@uwa.edu.au

Moorin, Rachael

Dr Rachael Moorin is the Director of the UWA node of ACERH - having previously been a member of Professor D'Arcy Holman's research team at the Centre for Health Services Research, UWA. Rachael has strong technical and computing credentials and is experienced with manipulation and analysis of linked administrative data. Rachael has significant expertise and experience in probabilistic modelling and quantitative data analysis stemming from her background in medical radiation science. Rachael is also the Director of Health Science Studies, the Coordinator of the Population Health Honours program and teaches within the school.

Rachael's research interests include:

• The health effects of social inequality
• Provision of health services
• Health care financing
• The impact of health care policies on utilisation and outcomes.

Rachael is currently undertaking research with ACERH in three program areas: health insurance; ageing; and the economic burden of illness and injury.

Rachael is also an adjunct Research Fellow in the department of Nuclear Medicine at Fremantle Hospital where she is involved in several clinically based research projects.

Rachael.Moorin@uwa.edu.au

McKenzie, Anne

Anne McKenzie works as the Consumer Research Liaison Officer, a position dedicated to increasing consumer and community participation in health and medical research at The UWA School of Population Health and the Telethon Institute for Child Health. Anne has a health background and established the role of Parent Advocate at Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth's only tertiary children's hospital.

Anne has a strong history of health consumer advocacy and is involved as:

• Deputy Chair, current Board Member and consumer representative for the Health Consumers' Council, Western Australia's peak consumer organisation
• Consumer representative on national Ehealth and Quality Use of Medicine committees for the Consumers Health Forum of Australia
• Member of the Cochrane Consumer Network

Lay member on the Silver Chain Nursing Association Human Research Ethics Committee. This is a statewide in-home aged health care and nursing support service.

Bulsara, Max
 

Max Bulsara is a Biostatistician within the School of Population Health, UWA. He has an honours degree in Mathematics and a master's degree in Statistics and is currently enrolled part time in a PhD program looking at the impact of severe complications in type I diabetics. He has been involved in epidemiological studies for over two decades both in Zambia (Tropical Disease epidemiology) and in Australia (the Busselton survey, the MONICA survey, the MASTERS trial, the AIRCRAFT trial to name a few). He is currently the trial statistician for the large international multi-centre TARGIT trial. He is an investigator on many grants and collaborates with leading researchers in both WA and inter-state. He has over 100 peer reviewed papers published. He has presented research findings at many national and international conferences and was awarded the Best Insight Award in Nutrition and Dietetics for his work with Dr Denise Stapleton and others on patients with Cystic Fibrosis.

He recently won WA Inventor of the Year (2006) in the Research Organisation Category for his work on developing HEPASCORE (with Jeffrey, Adams & Rossi) a non-invasive method of diagnosing liver fibrosis. Resulting from their publication on Psychostimulant use in Australia (Berbatis, Sunderland & Bulsara), a public inquiry was held to investigate WA's high rate of prescription and subsequent changes in legislation. In 2004 he was invited by the organizing committee of International Society for Paediatric & Adolescent Diabetes (Singapore) to present a paper on Cohort studies of acute complications. He supervises PhD, Master of Public Health and undergraduate Health Science students. He is frequently invited to lecture on statistical methods by different schools with UWA. He regularly reviews research grants for NHMRC, Cancer Council and Healthway. He has also been invited to be a member of the NHMRC Grant Review Panel.

Broadhurst, Robyn

Ms Robyn Broadhurst BA BSc is a Research Associate. Currently she is investigating long-term trends in the prevalence of glaucoma in Western Australia.  She has worked in the field of population health since 1988 and has many years experience working with large, linked, administrative health data sets and in statistical analysis of health-related data.  She was a long-standing member of the Perth arm of the WHO MONICA Study, which included the Perth Risk Factor Prevalence Surveys.  As data manager she was responsible for contributing RFPS data for two major international collaborations, the Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration and the Prospective Studies Collaboration.  She was also principal data analyst for the long-running Perth Community Stroke Study.

Robyn.Broadhurst@uwa.edu.au

Zhang, Min

Dr Zhang is a NHMRC postdoctoral research fellow with the Centre for Health Services Research at the School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia (4 years appointment since 2004).

Min.Zhang@uwa.edu.au

Price, Sylvie

Sylvie Price BMath MPH is a Research Associate who joined the Centre for Health Services Research in May 2006 to investigate the effects of exposure to high risk and potentially inappropriate medications among older people on unplanned hospital admissions. Her research makes use of Commonwealth pharmaceutical, Medicare and aged care data linked to Western Australian inpatient and death records.

Sylvie has a background in software development and health statistics, with extensive experience in the review, design, collection, classification, analysis and dissemination of health services data. In her various roles within the health sector, she has developed an extensive questionnaire for a major diabetes study, established a hospital-based cancer registry at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, overseen injury surveillance projects at a number of Emergency Departments throughout Western Australia, managed the WA Hospital Morbidity Data System, generated statistics to support the planning of renal dialysis, palliative care and other health services at the State level, and supported WA "Burden of Disease" initiatives. She has a particular interest in large health data collections, major clinical classifications and the analysis of linked health data.

Sylvie.Price@uwa.edu.au 

Hynd, Anna

Dr Anna Hynd is a Research Associate with the Centre for Health Services Research. She worked on a number of health service research projects prior to joining the centre in 2007, including evaluations of Ngala's sleep management and post-natal depression interventions and a study of opiate use in chronic pain treatment. Anna completed a PhD in Developmental Psychology in 2006. She is currently working on an NHMRC-funded project, using the WA Linkage Database to determine the impact of PBS co-payment increases on medication use and health service utilisation.

Anna.Hynd@uwa.edu.au 

Jama Alol, Khadra

Khadra A. Jama Alol is a Research Associate with the Centre for Health Services Research. She worked as Research Assistant at Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics-School of Public Health at Curtin University Technology. Khadra holds an Masters and PGradDip of public health, PGradDip and BSc of Biochemistry. She is currently working on an NHMRC-funded project, using the WA Linkage Database to. This project will focus on morbidity, mortality and health service use among Western Australian criminal offenders.

Khadra.Jama.Alol@uwa.edu.au 

Einarsdóttir, Kristjana

Dr Kristjana Einarsdóttir is a Research Associate at the Centre for Health Services Research. She is investigating the impact of enhanced primary care on chronic disease outcomes in seniors using cross-jurisdictional linked health data. Kristjana completed a BSc (Hons) degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Iceland in 2003 and a PhD in Epidemiology from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden in 2007.

Krisjana.Einarsdottir@uwa.edu.au

Mai, Qun

Qun Mai is a member of CHSR at the School of Population Health, UWA. She is currently doing her PhD with Professor D'Arcy Holman on ‘utilisation and outcomes of primary health care services in people who have used mental health services in Western Australia in 1990-2004'. It is a population-based cross-jurisdictional data linkage project, linking the Commonwealth's MBS and PBS data for study cohorts with the State's mental health, hospital inpatients, emergency department, electoral roll and mortality data. She was a graduate from the Capital Institute of Medicine in China. Following two years of clinical work, she migrated to Australia and received further training in Public Health and got a degree of MPH from the UWA. From 1999 to 2005, she was a research officer at the School of Population Health and had worked on several projects, primarily using WA linked health data, including post-marketing monitoring and evaluation of new surgical procedures (eg, laparoscopic cholecystectomy and endovascular stent graft for abdominal aortic aneurysm), studying health disparities in vulnerable populations (eg, socioeconomically disadvantaged groups and prisoners), examining the potential impact of secondary medical prevention on acute coronary events, and investigating variations in treatment modes and outcomes of upper gastrointestininal cancers

Qun.Mai@uwa.edu.au

Stewart, Louise

Louise Stewart is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof D'Arcy Holman, Prof Judith Finn and Associate Prof Roger Hart. Her research project involves the use of WA linked data to examine the impact of assisted reproductive technology on morbidity and mortality in a cohort of Western Australian women. Louise has an honours degree in science and a graduate diploma in public health.

lstewart@meddent.uwa.edu.au

Smith, Fiona

Fiona is a PhD candidate jointly enrolled with CHSR/ACERH, where she is investigating the surgical management and obstetric risk factors associated with pelvic organ prolapse; a relatively understudied gynaecological health condition in women.

Fiona completed a Bachelor of Health Science with first class honours in 2005. She is currently a UWA teaching intern and is lecturing and tutoring within the undergraduate health science program. With an interest in health consumer issues, she is pleased to be part of the SPH consumer advisory council and is also the international post-graduate student support liaison officer.

fsmith@meddent.uwa.edu.au

Gibson, David

David Gibson is currently a PhD candidate at the School of Population Health. David completed his Bachelor of Health Science at UWA in 2004, with majors in Population Health and Microbiology. After two years of employment in private pathology a desire for more challenging and rewarding work directed him to complete his Honours at UWA in the School of Population Health in 2006. David's Honours project involved investigating how federal policies impacted on private health insurance utilisation. This research has provided David with a keen interest in how health policy impacts on the population's health outcomes.

David's PhD project is utilising cross-jurisdictional linked data to investigate the outcomes associated with the Enhanced Primary Care GP services on WA elderly suffering from a range of chronic diseases.

dgibson@meddent.uwa.edu

Clark, Antony

Dr Antony Clark is a Research Associate with the Centre for Health Services Research at UWA and also Curtin University. He graduated from medicine at UWA in 2004 and spent time working as a resident at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital prior to commencing his PhD in 2007. His PhD incorporates several NHMRC funded projects which each aim to evaluate aspects of eye service provision in WA and its associated outcomes for a range of eye conditions. A major part of this work is using the WA Data Linkage System and Commonwealth Datasets to evaluate eye screening for people with diabetes in WA and its impact on long term health outcomes.  Other projects include: a project examining major cataract surgery complications in WA over the last 20 years and a project to explore the utility of linked data in ascertaining glaucoma patients in WA and their health outcomes.

aclark@meddent.uwa.edu.au