The University of Newcastle, Australia
School of Health Sciences

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Family Studies

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Associate Professor Richard Fletcher

Associate Professor
Family Action Centre

Expertise: Fathers, Mental Health, Digital Parenting programs

Dr Jennifer St George

Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Fathering & child development

Dr Graeme Stuart

Lecturer
Family Action Centre

Expertise: Strengths-based practice, community engagement and nonviolent relationships

Dr Jamin Day

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Family Action Centre

Expertise: Compassion-focused approaches, parenting

Dr Chris May

Casual Research Assistant/Casual Academic
Family Action Centre|School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Co-parenting, Digital parenting programs

Medical Radiation Science

Mr John Tessier

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Work integrated Learning, Computed Tomography, Diagnostic Radiography

Mrs Debra Lee

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Emotional Intelligence, Simulation

Dr Sharmaine McKiernan

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Diagnostic Radiography, Ultrasound

Dr Yolanda Surjan

Senior Lecturer
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

Associate Professor Helen Warren

Associate Professor
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Radiation dosimetry, image quality, mammography

Mrs Melissa Shields

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Nuclear Medicine

Mr Cameron Younger

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Ethics, Trauma, Image Interpretation

Dr Daphne James

Assistant Dean Teaching and Learning
Office of the PVC Health and Medicine

Expertise: Nuclear medicine, Occupational Radiation Exposure

Mr Andrew Lloyd

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Nuclear Medicine, Positron Emission Tomography

Mr David Lyall

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Molecular Imaging

Mrs Leah Cramp

Associate Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Radiation Therapy

Associate Professor Anthony Smith

Academic Lead, Research
University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health

Expertise: Rural Health Workforce, Medical Radiation Practice, Health Professional Education, Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice

Nutrition & Dietetics

Associate Professor Surinder Baines

Associate Professor
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Nutrition and health, Medical nutrition therapy and chronic disease management

Associate Professor Leanne Brown

Associate Professor
University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health

Expertise: Nutrition, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, sports nutrition, rural health and workforce development

Associate Professor Tracy Burrows

NHMRC Research Fellow
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Dietary intake assessment, obesity, addictive overeating

Professor Clare Collins

Senior Research Fellow
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Nutrition, Diet, Dietary assessment, eHealth, telehealth, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, life stage

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Dr Melinda Hutchesson

Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Public health nutrition, primary prevention of chronic disease

Associate Professor Lesley MacDonald-Wicks

Assistant Dean Research and Training
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Diet and chronic disease management, Health Conversation Skills

Dr Amanda Brown

Conjoint Lecturer
School of Medicine and Public Health

Expertise: Public heath nutrition, nutritional epidemiology, diet and chronic disease, mineral nutrition

Dr Kirrilly Pursey

Associate Lecturer/Casual Post Doctoral Research Assistant
School of Health Sciences|School of Medicine and Public Health

Expertise: Nutrition, disordered eating

Dr Megan Rollo

Post Doctoral Research Fellow
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Dietary intake assessment, digital health including telehealth, personalised nutrition

Miss Kirsty Seward

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Public Health Nutrition (childhood obesity prevention), Implementation Science, Private Practice (online)

Dr Tracy Schumacher

Clinical Teaching and Research Academic/Research Academic
University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health|School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Nutritional intake, dietary assessment methodology, cardiovascular disease, risk factors for chronic disease, lifespan

Mrs Kelly Squires

Lecturer/Course Coordinator
University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health|School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Nutrition, Student supervision, simulation, rural health

Miss Lisa Urquhart

Associate Lecturer Nutrition & Dietetics
University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health

Expertise: Indigenous health, rural health

Ms Elesa Crowley

Lecturer Nutrition & Dietetics
University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health

Expertise: Paediatrics, allergy and intolerance, eating disorders and rural health

Occupational Health & Safety

Dr Joanna Bohatko Naismith

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Return to Work

Dr Manikam Pillay

Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Organisational safety, Qualitative Research, Integrative reviews

Occupational Therapy

Professor Alison Lane

Professor
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Autism, early childhood, sensory

Dr Kirsti Haracz

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Mental health, lifestyle, qualitative research

Dr Kylie Wales

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Cost-effectiveness, psychometrics, older adults

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 Anna Rose

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Comfort, health services research, e-health

Mrs Gjyn O'Toole

Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Communication, person-centred, cultural-responsiveness

Mrs Rebecca Wolfgang

Lecturer
University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health

Expertise: Disability, clinical education, rural health

Oral Health

Associate Professor Janet Wallace

Associate Professor
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Oral Health & the elderly - Senior Smiles

Dr Denise Higgins

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Oral Health Simulation

Dr Kay Franks

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Oral Health & nutrition education

Dr Linda Wallace

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Oral Health & education

Dr Jayne Jones

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Oral health Therapists management of patients with ASD

Mrs Lucia Quinn

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Oral Health & extended scope of practice

Physiotherapy

Dr Catherine Johnston

Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Clinical education, cardiopulmonary physiotherapy

Professor Coralie English

Professor
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Sedentary behaviour following stroke, neurological physiotherapy

Dr Jenny Mackney

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Cardiorespiratory physiotherapy, exercise testing and physiology

Associate Professor Suzanne Snodgrass

Associate Professor
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Movement dysfunction in chronic pain, injury risk in work and sport

Dr Jodie Marquez

Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Stroke rehabilitation, robotics for rehabilitation

Professor Darren Rivett

Professor
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Clinical reasoning, joint manipulation, manual therapy

Dr Peter Osmotherly

Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Clinical anatomy of the upper cervical spine, diagnostic statistics

Dr Luke Wakely

Senior Lecturer
University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health

Expertise: Paediatric physiotherapy, rural health

Podiatry

Professor Viv Chuter

Professor
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Diabetes and its complications, vascular disease, Indigenous health

Dr Fiona Hawke

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Lower limb cramps, Indigenous health

Dr Peta Tehan

Senior Lecturer/Project Coordinator
School of Health Sciences|School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Lower limb vascular disease, diabetes complications, rheumatoid arthritis

Dr Sean Lanting

Clinical Educator
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Diabetes and its complications, vascular disease

Dr Andrea Coda

Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, health technologies

Mrs Sarah Casey

Lecturer
School of Health Sciences

Expertise: Lower limb vascular disease, clinical assessments, diabetes complications

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