Area of Research

Name

Expertise & Experience

Publication*

• General practice
• Work force issues in primary care
• Multimorbidity and chronic disease

Professor Tom Brett
MA (Hons), MD, MRCGP, MICGP, FRACGP

Professor Brett is a General practitioner with 25 years experience in clinical practice with research interests in prostate cancer in general practice, workforce issues in general practice, primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and Chlamydia. He is also involved with clinical debriefing and teaching of medical students and supervision of honours candidates at Notre Dame's School of Medicine.

Brett , Arnold-Reed, Hince, Wood, Moorhead.,
‘Retirement intentions of general practitioners aged 45-65 years.’ Medical  Journal of Australia, 191, 2009

• Women’s and infant’s health
• Domestic violence
• Teenage pregnancy

Professor Julie Quinlivan FRANZCOG MBBS, PhD

Professor Quinlivan has won two international research awards as well as several Australian prizes. She was senior registrar at Flinders Medical Centre and Head of the RWH Gold Maternity Care program. She has published over 80 research articles, 4 book chapters, edited 1 book and presented nearly 100 abstracts to Australian and overseas meetings.

Kalu, Kornman & Quilivan, 'Managing back pain in pregnancy using a support garment: a randomised trial', BJOG: International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Vol. 115 (1)

• Medical imaging

Professor Suzanne Anderson-Semach

Professor Anderson-Semach was formerly a specialist in radiology at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney she undertook fellowships in musculoskeletal radiology and neuroradiology and has worked at University of San Francisco California, University of Bern and Inselspital. She is authored or co-authored 50 peer-reviewed or invited review papers, and several book chapters.

Richards, Pattison, Belcher, DeCann, Anderson and Wynn-Jones, 'A New Tilt on Pelvic Radiographs: a pilot study', Skeletal Radiology, Vol. 38 (2)

• Infectious diseases
• Cerebral palsy

Professor George Mendz
LicSc, PhD

Professor Mendz has been an ARC Senior Research Fellow and has worked at University’s of Puerto Rico, Sydney & NSW. The author of over 130 publications his research aims are to understand the physiology, genetics, genomics and microbial ecology of pathogenic bacteria

Kaakoush, Raftery and Mendz, 'Molecular Responses of Campylobacter jejuni to Cadmium Stress', FEBS Journal, Vol. 275 (20)

• Palliative care
• Newborn care
• Cerebral palsy

Professor NadiaBadawi
MBBS, PhD

Professor Badawi Is the Macquarie Group Chair of Cerebral Palsy and Head of Grace Centre for Newborn Care Research at the Children's Hospital at Westmead. She and her co-investigators from the Telethon Institute have reported on the incidence of cerebral palsy and autism following newborn encephalopathy among survivors after the age five. She was the recipient of a NHMRC Career Development Award and holds prestigious grant funding from the March of Dimes, USA.

Badawi, N., Keogh, J. ‘The vexed issue of cerebral palsy and breech presentation.’ Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 51:846, 2009