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Associate Professor
School of Human Movement and Nutrition SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Cerebral palsy is the most common type of physical disability impacting on 1 in 500 children, with… A National Initiative for Increasing Sports Participation among Australians with a Disability… Motor Accident Insurance Commission Queensland Teaching and Community Service Rehabilitation Research Fellowship in Physical Activity and Disability… research program he aims to generate the knowledge required to empower people with disabilities to… purpose (to promote participation in sport by people with disabilities by minimising the impact of…
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- s.tweedy@uq.edu.au
- Ph:
- +61 7 336 56638
A/Prof Sean Tweedy leads the Para Sport and Adapted Physical Activity Research Group in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland. Through his applied research program he aims to generate the knowledge required to empower people with disabilities to pursue self-di …
Sean developed the Adapted Physical Activity Program (APAP), a theory-driven physical activity promotion program for community dwelling people disabilities. A controlled clinical trial demonstrated its efficacy in people with acquired brain injury, providing impetus for its implementation into the A …
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Professor
School of EducationFaculty of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Assessment, treatment and supports for people with intellectual disability who offend… Why do families relinquish care of their family member with a disability?… 'We need to talk' : Genomics and disability… Forensic disability… A family having to relinquish the care of their family member with a disability is a situation that…
Education; Studies in Human Society; Medical and Health Sciences; Nursing; Public Health and Health Services; Education Systems; Specialist Studies in Education; Policy and Administration; Care for Disabled; Health and Community Services; Higher Education; Special Education and Disability; Social Policy;- Email:
- k.nankervis@uq.edu.au
- Ph:
- +61 7 336 56493
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Senior Research Fellow
Mater Research Institute-UQFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Challenging Behaviour in People with Intellectual Disability: Essentials for the Psychiatrist… with intellectual and developmental disability living with diabetes and their support people: Diabetes to the Point… Dr Cathy Franklin is a psychiatrist who specialises in the psychiatry of intellectual disability… Mental illness is common in people with intellectual disability. They may also have physical health…
Medical and Health Sciences; Public Health and Health Services; Psychology; Care for Disabled; Mental Health; Developmental Psychology and Ageing; Biomedical and Clinical Sciences; Clinical sciences; Psychiatry (incl. psychotherapy); Psychology and Cognitive Sciences;- Email:
- c.franklin1@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 3163 1625
Dr Cathy Franklin is a psychiatrist who specialises in the psychiatry of intellectual disability and autism in adolescents and adults. Cathy has worked in this area since 2004, and her career has largely focussed on clinical work and education until 2015, when she commenced a part-time research appo …
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ATH - Associate Professor
UQ Centre for Clinical ResearchFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Health care utilization, cost burden and coping strategies by disability status: an analysis of the Viet Nam National Health Survey… The RAPID (Reducing Antipsychotics in People with Intellectual Disability) study… Adult developmental disability medicine… ) ยท Director, Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability (to January 2021… disability status to assist in the design of equitable health systems in developing countries. Using…
Biological Sciences; Medical and Health Sciences; Medical Microbiology; Public Health and Health Services; Ecology; Microbiology; Zoology; Clinical Sciences; Infectious Diseases; Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy); Medical Bacteriology; Medical Virology; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health; Care for Disabled; Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety; Epidemiology; Health Promotion; Mental Health; Preventive Medicine; Primary Health Care; Infectious Agents; Invertebrate Biology; Vertebrate Biology; Health Sciences; Health promotion; Epidemiology; People with disability; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing; Medical microbiology; Infectious diseases; Clinical sciences; Biomedical and Clinical Sciences; Vertebrate biology; Invertebrate biology; Zoology; Infectious agents; Microbiology; Ecology; Biological Sciences;- Email:
- d.harley@uq.edu.au
CURRENT POSITIONS
· Senior Staff Specialist (Public Health Medicine), Queensland Health
· Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Clinical Research - University of Queensland
· Adjunct Professor, Griffith University Medical School
RECENT POSITIONS
· General Practitioner, I …
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Research Fellow
Child Health Research CentreFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability arising in childhood. Around 34,000… Physical activity promotion in children with disability… enabling participation of young people with disabilities in sports and active recreation. She is… Objectives Cerebral palsy (CP) remains the world's most common childhood physical disability with…
Medical and Health Sciences; Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine; Public Health and Health Services; Clinical Sciences; Physiotherapy; Rehabilitation and Therapy (excl. Physiotherapy); Paediatrics; Health Promotion; Preventive Medicine;- Email:
- s.reedman@uq.edu.au
- Ph:
- +61 7 344 36411
Dr Sarah Reedman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre group within the UQ Child Health Research Centre. Sarah is passionate about enabling participation of young people with disabilities in sports and active recreation. She is interest …
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Research Fellow/Senior Research off
Mater Research Institute-UQFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Perceptions and experiences of access to public healthcare by people with disabilities and older people in Uganda… with intellectual and developmental disability living with diabetes and their support people: Diabetes to the Point… People with intellectual disability experience significant health disparity and engage in less… Disability and health… Katie is a health and disability researcher. She did an undergraduate degree in health sciences… older people in Uganda's Kamwenge district, and with persons with disabilities from the Gulu region…
Public Health and Health Services; Care for Disabled; Primary Health Care; Medical and Health Sciences; Health Sciences; People with disability; Biomedical and Clinical Sciences;- Email:
- k.brooker1@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 3163 1983
Katie is a health and disability researcher. She did an undergraduate degree in health sciences. Though this, she gained the language and understanding of the social determinants of health, providing the framework to contextualise the health disparities she had witnessed growing up. Her passion for …
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Honorary Associate Professor
School of PharmacyFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesPublic Health and Health Services; Clinical Sciences; Food Sciences; Health Sciences; Clinical sciences; Food sciences;- Email:
- j.cichero@uq.edu.au
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Senior Lecturer in Occ Therapy
School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
people with a range of disabilities. Examples include understanding the everyday lives of people… The meaning of leisure for children and young people with physical disabilities: a systematic evidence synthesis… Disability - experience and participation… experiences of people with disabilities. She specialises in the use of qualitative research methods and uses a… needs of practicing professionals. Professional partners from health, education, disability services…
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- m.turpin@uq.edu.au
- Ph:
- +61 7 336 56491
Dr Turpin’s research centres on the clinical/professional reasoning of occupational therapists across the spectrum of experience from new graduates to experts, as well as the subjective experiences of people with disabilities. She specialises in the use of qualitative research methods and uses a v …
Dr Turpin works closely with Queensland Heath regarding supporting the clinical reasoning of occupational therapists with a range of experience. She also works with a range of organisations to use personal and occupational therapy understandings to improve the lives of people with Disabilities.
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Associate Professor
School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
professionals to improve access to high quality assessment, effective interventions and better systems of care across health, disability and community sectors.… A systematic review of falls in hospital for patients with communication disability: highlighting an invisible population… Improving systems for integrated care across health, disability and community settings… health and disability sectors. This strategy has enabled her to resolve complex… domain as defined by of the International Classification of Function Disability and included children…
Medical and Health Sciences; Human Movement and Sports Science; Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine; Public Health and Health Services; Motor Control; Paediatrics; Community Child Health;- Email:
- l.johnston1@uq.edu.au
- Ph:
- +61 7 336 52791
A/Prof Leanne Johnston leads a research program that focusses on achieving high value paediatric health care for children and families. Her research priorities have been consumer driven and drawn from consultation with children and their families. In each research project, she leads her team to appl …
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ATH - Associate Professor
Child Health Research CentreFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Exogenous melatonin for sleep disorders in children with visual impairment and intellectual disability: Evidence grows but research shrinks… refer explicitly to intervention for intellectual disability at a level other than behaviour change…
Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine; Public Health and Health Services; Health Sciences; Biomedical and Clinical Sciences;- Email:
- h.heussler@uq.edu.au
Developmental and Behavioural Paediatrician with a dual qualification in Sleep Medicine
Honey trained initially at UQ and the Mater Chidlren's Hospital before spending time in Melbourne at the RWH and RCH ( Murdoch Institute)Her Doctorate in the Behavioural and Attentional consequences of Adenotonsil …
