Honorary Adjuncts
Professor David Henry
David is Professor of Evidence-Based Practice as well as Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and holds a Conjoint Chair at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has a long standing interest in evidence-based practice and has been a member of the Cochrane Collaboration for many years. He has been active in the field of drug safety and was executive co-lead of CNODES (www.cnodes.ca) a distributed network of Canadian data centres and scientists using administrative data to evaluate adverse drug effects. He led efforts to introduce comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness evaluation methods as a basis for national drug coverage decisions in Australia in the early 1990s. He practiced as an internal medicine specialist and clinical pharmacologist for many years in Australia.
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Associate Professor Magnolia Cardona
Magnolia is a Gerontology and Geriatrics researcher and Associate Professor of health systems research working on enhancing decision support tools for end of life care and reducing low-value care in hospitals and general practice.
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Associate Professor Rae Thomas
Rae is a Psychologist with over 20 years’ clinical experience providing psychological interventions to children and families. Her program of research includes developing, implementing, and evaluating randomised controlled trials, embedding public voices in health guidelines and policy, exploring processes in health decision making particularly in relation to overdiagnosis, and translating research evidence to practice and policy.
She has taught evidence-based practice to students and health practitioners, conducted systematic reviews, used randomised controlled experimental designs, and explored innovative methodologies to facilitate public deliberation in health policy.
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Associate Professor Susan Phillips
Sue is an expert in guideline development and evidence implementation. During her time at the National Institute of Clinical Studies, Sue led national programs to translate research into practice in areas such as heart failure management and venous thromboembolism prevention. She is a long-standing member of the Guidelines-International-Network, including time as Trustee of the Board, and two years as Vice-Chair. She led the digital transformation of Therapeutic Guidelines during her time as CEO and currently pursues her passion for research into evidence translation methods with colleagues at the Institute.
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Associate Professor Claudia Dobler
Claudia is an Assoc Prof of Evidence-Based Medicine. She is also a consultant respiratory physician at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney. Her research focuses on epidemiology and large database analysis, evidence-based medicine, knowledge synthesis and translation, and medical decision-making at a system and patient encounter level (using the tools of decision analysis and decision aids for shared decision-making). She spent two years as a visiting research scholar at the Mayo Clinic’s Evidence-Based Practice Center in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Breathe, the educational journal of the European Respiratory Society.
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Assistant Professor Ray Moynihan
A former award-winning journalist, Ray’s worked at ABC’s Four Corners, 7.30 Report, and Australian Financial Review, and written 4 books on the business of medicine, including “Selling Sickness”, translated into 12 languages. A one-time Harkness fellow at Harvard University, Ray’s published in the NEJM, Lancet and BMJ.
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Assistant Professor Anna Scott
Anna's background is in Philosophy, Epidemiology and Health Technology Assessment. Her research primarily focuses on evidence generation and methodological development in two aspects of robust health policy decision-making: evidence syntheses (e.g. systematic reviews) needed to make sound, evidence-informed decisions; and the involvement of community members in those decisions. She also works on issues in waste in research (in particular, research governance).
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Assistant Professor Paulina Stehlik
Paulie is aregistered pharmacist, and president of the Gold Coast Skeptics. Her areas of interests include clinician research engagement and development, reducing research waste, using real-world data for research, regulation of health products, and pharmacy practice and pharmacy services.
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Assistant Professor Zoe Michaleff
Zoe is a physiotherapist with experience in the evidence-based diagnosis, prognosis and sustainable management of musculoskeletal conditions across the life course.
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