Our researchers
Medical Radiation Science
Professor Yolanda Surjan
Professor
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Translational Research in skin cancer from human to animal
Professor Peter Stanwell
Professor
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Medical imaging, MRI, brain injury
Professor Daphne James
Associate Dean, Engagement and Equity
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Nuclear medicine, Occupational Radiation Exposure
Nutrition & Dietetics
Professor Tracy Burrows
Professor
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Dietary intake assessment, obesity, addictive overeating
Dr Katherine Brain
Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Chronic pain, diet, nutrition, telehealth, translational research
Professor Clare Collins
Laureate Professor NHMRC Investigator Fellow
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Nutrition, Diet, Dietary assessment, eHealth, telehealth, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, life stage
Associate Professor Melinda Hutchesson
Associate Professor
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Public health nutrition, primary prevention of chronic disease
Professor Lesley MacDonald-Wicks
Professor
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Diet and chronic disease management, Health Conversation Skills
Dr Amanda Patterson
Associate Professor
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Public heath nutrition, nutritional epidemiology, diet and chronic disease, mineral nutrition
Dr Kirrilly Pursey
Senior Lecturer, Nutrition and Dietetics
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Nutrition, disordered eating
Dr Kelly Squires
Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Nutrition, Student supervision, simulation, rural health
Dr Rebecca Collins
Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Addictive Eating, Nutrition, Dietetics, Counselling; Telehealth
Occupational Therapy
Dr Kirsti Haracz
Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Mental health, lifestyle, qualitative research
Dr Elysa Roberts
Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Qualitative research, eating disorders, occupational science
Associate Professor Samantha Ashby
Associate Professor
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Professional identity, professional resilience, occupational therapy theory
Dr Sarah Perkes
Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, co-design, digital health, child and family health, occupational therapy, health services innovation, and health equity
Dr Aysan Mahmoudi Asl
Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Co‑design of health and care technologies, UX research with social robots, assistive tech for people with dementia
Dr Anna Rose
Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Comfort, health services research, e-health
Dr Karen Ray
Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Occupational Therapy, school based practice, handwriting fluency, co-teaching practices, child development
Dr Lee-Ann Jacobs-Nzuzi Khuabi
Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Active learning, blended learning, consumer perspective, health profession education, health systems reform, interprofessional education, neurology, rehabilitation, theory generation, transformative learning
Oral Health
Professor Dileep Sharma
Head of Discipline Oral Health
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Oral health; Dental Implant; Tissue Regeneration; Oral Cancer; Prevention
Physiotherapy
Dr Catherine Johnston
Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Clinical education, cardiopulmonary physiotherapy
Dr Clint Newstead
Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Allied Health, cardiorespiratory physiotherapy, clinical education, physiotherapy
Professor Coralie English
Associate Dean, Research
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Stroke recovery and rehabilitation, stroke secondary prevention, post-stroke fatigue, physical activity, Clinical Guideline development
Dr Jenny Mackney
Conjoint Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Cardiorespiratory physiotherapy, exercise testing and physiology
Professor Suzanne Snodgrass
Professor
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Movement dysfunction in chronic pain, injury risk in work and sport
Associate Professor Jodie Marquez
Director Research Ethics and Integrity
Office of the PVC Research
Expertise: Stroke rehabilitation, robotics for rehabilitation
Dr Peter Osmotherly
Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Clinical anatomy of the upper cervical spine, diagnostic statistics
Dr Wei-Ju Chang
Honorary Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Pain, Neuroplasticity, Transcranial Magnetic Simulation; Quantitative Sensory Testing, Musculoskeletal Disorders
Dr Sharon Czerniec
Conjoint Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
- sharon.czerniec@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249218864
Dr Dawn Simpson
Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Fatigue, Physiotherapy, Stroke, Sedentary Behaviour, Physical Activity, Rehabilitation, Gerontology
Podiatry
Dr Fiona Hawke
Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Lower limb cramps, Indigenous health
Professor Andrea Coda
Professor in Podiatry
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, health technologies
Dr Antoni Fellas
Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Expertise: Biomechanics, paediatric rheumatology, podopaediatric
Speech Pathology
Research - Other
Health Professions Education
Family Studies
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