Fields of Research

Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Knowledge representation and reasoning
Health services and systems
Preventative health care
Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences
Health informatics and information systems
Virtual and mixed reality
Aged health care
Basic pharmacology
Health care administration
Image processing
Community child health
Technical, further and workplace education
Artificial intelligence
Information security management
Decision making
Higher education
Pharmaceutical sciences
Cognitive neuroscience
Infectious diseases
Respiratory diseases
Paediatrics
Health and community services
Educational technology and computing
Family care
Epidemiology
Tumour immunology
Nursing
Sub-acute care
Geriatrics and gerontology

Research Objectives

Health related to ageing
Evaluation of health and support services
Evaluation of health outcomes
Expanding knowledge in the information and computing sciences
Teaching and instruction technologies
Clinical health
Health education and promotion
Preventive medicine
Diagnosis of human diseases and conditions
Health policy evaluation
Public health (excl. specific population health)
Application software packages
Other health
Neonatal and child health
Information systems, technologies and services
Allied health therapies (excl. mental health services)
Provision of health and support services
Ageing and older people
Expanding knowledge in the health sciences
Other information and communication services
Behaviour and health
Mental health
Primary care
Learner and learning
Human pharmaceutical treatments
Efficacy of medications
Other education and training
Animation, video games and computer generated imagery services
Nursing

Career Best Publications

A comparison of prescribing criteria when applied to older community-based patients; Drugs and Aging
Development of an intelligent decision support system for medication review; Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics
DOCUMENT: a system for classifying drug-related problems in community pharmacy; International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
Drug-Related Problems Detected in Australian Community Pharmacies: The PROMISe Trial; The Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Research Publications

A clinical knowledge measurement tool to assess the ability of community pharmacists to detect drug-related problems; International Journal of Pharmacy Practice
A comparison of prescribing criteria when applied to older community-based patients; Drugs and Aging
A computer simulation of community pharmacy practice for educational use; American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
A methodological framework for estimating the clinical and economic value of community pharmacists' clinical interventions using expert opinion; Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics
An intelligent decision support system for medication review; National Medicines Symposium 2006 - Quality use of medicines: balancing beliefs, benefits and harms
An internet-based method for extracting nursing home resident sedative medication data from pharmacy packing systems: descriptive evaluation; Journal of Medical Internet Research
An investigation into drug-related problems identifiable by commercial medication review software; Australasian Medical Journal
An investigation into the types of drug related problems that can and cannot be identified by commercial medication review software; Second Australian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Health: AIH 2012
An overview of available computer-based simulation tools in pharmacy practice education; APSA 2021 Annual Conference
Applying Feature Extraction for Classification Problems; International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
Applying MCRDR to a Multidisciplinary Domain; AJCAI
Applying Multiple Classification Ripple Round Rules to a Complex Configuration Task; AI 2011: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 24th Australasian Joint Conference
Can software assist the home medicines review process by identifying clinically relevant drug-related problems?; Ascept-APSA 2012
Clinical and economic outcomes of interventions to reduce antipsychotic and benzodiazepine use within Nursing Homes: a systematic review; Drugs and Aging
Clinical impact of antipsychotic and benzodiazepine reduction within residential aged care facilities: Findings from a multicomponent sedative reduction program; 17th National Conference of Emerging Researchers in Ageing
Clinical impact of antipsychotic and benzodiazepine reduction: Findings from a multicomponent psychotropic reduction program within long-term aged care; IPA/SEPG Joint International Congress
Clinical impact of antipsychotic and benzodiazepine reduction: findings from a multicomponent psychotropic reduction program within long-term aged care; International Psychogeriatrics
Clinical interventions in community pharmacies in Australia: Value for money; National Medicines Symposium 2010
Clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness of a pharmacy-led post-discharge warfarin management service; Australasian Pharmaceutical Science Association Annual Conference 2010 Focus on the Future: Research and education for a healthier community
Clinical outcomes of reducing the use of sedatives in residents of aged care facilities; Tasmanian Health Science HDR Student Conference
Comparing the renal outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation receiving different oral anticoagulants; Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology
Computer system to support medication reviews: a good but not new concept; International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
Consumer Access, Appraisal, and Application of Services and Information for Dementia (CAAASI-Dem): a validation study; Aging and Mental Health
Development of a flexible and extensible computer-based simulation platform for healthcare students; Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Development of an intelligent decision support system for medication review; Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics
DOCUMENT: a system for classifying drug-related problems in community pharmacy; International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
Does Clinical knowledge influence rates of interventions by community pharmacists? Findings from PROMISe III; Australian Pharmacist
Does involvement in continuing professional development influence rates of interventions by community pharmacists? Findings from PROMISe III; Australian Pharmacist
Does workload influence intervention rates?; Australian Pharmacist
Drug-Related Problems Detected in Australian Community Pharmacies: The PROMISe Trial; The Annals of Pharmacotherapy
Effects of a mobile app called Quittr, which utilizes premium currency and games features, on improving engagement with smoking cessation intervention: Pilot randomized controlled trial; JMIR Serious Games
eHealth solution to RedUSe the use of sedatives in aged care
Expansion of the reducing use of sedatives (RedUSe) project to Australian nursing homes; Bmc Health Services Research
Expansion of the Reducing Use of Sedatives (RedUSe) project to Australian nursing homes; 2nd biannual Australian Implemntation Conference
Expansion of the Reducing Use of Sedatives (RedUSe) Project to Australian Nursing Homes; American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Expert-driven knowledge discovery; Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG)
Exploring uptake of a university-level educational intervention to prevent cognitive decline and reduce dementia risk: the Tasmanian Healthy Brain Project; Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2020
Feature extraction for classification from images: a look at the retina; International Symposium on Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing (UMC)
Five-year trends in potential drug interactions with direct-acting oral anticoagulants in patients with atrial fibrillation: an Australian-wide study; Journal of Clinical Medicine
Game jams as an opportunity for industry development; 1st International Joint Conference of DiGRA and FDG (DiGRA/FDG '16)
How patients use repeat antibiotic prescriptions: the impact of dosing directions; Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research
Impact of sedative reduction, via a multifaceted intervention, on long-term care facility residents; International Psychogeriatric Association Annual Congress 2016
Intelligent decision support for medication review; PKAW
Knowing when to stop antibiotic therapy; Medical Journal of Australia
Multimodality Simulation Workshop; AACP Annual Meeting 2016
Multiple classification ripple round rules: a preliminary study; PKAW
Multiple Classification Ripple Round Rules: Classifications as Conditions
Oral anticoagulant treatment and the risk of dementia in patients with atrial fibrillation: a population‐based cohort study; Journal of the American Heart Association
Outcomes of a decision support prompt in community pharmacy dispensing software to promote step-down of proton pump inhibitor therapy; British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
Pharmacy Simulator: A 3D computer-based virtual patient simulator for training community pharmacists; Pharmacy Simulator: A 3D computer-based virtual patient simulator for training community pharmacists
Pharmacy Simulator: A 3D computer-based virtual patient simulator for training community pharmacists; 2015 Joint APSA-ASCEPT Annual Conference
Problems detected by a ripple-down rules based medication review decision support system: are they relevant?; 13th Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop: PKAW 2014
PROMISe III Clinical interventions: The perils of prescriptions; Pharmacy Practice Research Summit 2010
PROMISe III community pharmacy interventions: consumer satisfaction and opinions; National Medicines Symposium 2010
PROMISE III: Can pharmacists stomach a PPI prompt?; Pharmacy Practice Research Summit 2010
PROMISe III: The value of an electronic PPI stepdown prompt; National Medicines Symposium 2010
PROMISe results: common drugs and their problems in community pharmacy interventions; Australian Pharmacist
PROMISe to secure future of community pharmacy; Australian Pharmacist
Quittr: the design of a video game to support smoking cessation; JMIR Serious Games
Reducing the Use of Sedative medication in aged care facilities: Implementation of the ‘RedUSe’ project into everyday practice
Reducing the Use of Sedative medication in aged care facilities: Implementation of the ‘RedUSe’ project into everyday practice
RedUSe: reducing antipsychotic and benzodiazepine prescribing in residential aged care facilities; Medical Journal of Australia
Simulated Assessment of Ripple Round Rules; PKAW
Simulated Learning Experiences; University of Newcastle Simulation Centre Launch
Simulation and feedback in health education: A mixed methods study comparing three simulation modalities; Pharmacy
Simulation Platform Enabling the Rapid Development of Immersive 3D Simulated Learning Experiences; Australasian Simulation Congress 2016
Stroke risk reassessment and oral anticoagulant initiation in primary care patients with atrial fibrillation: a ten-year follow-up; European Journal of Clinical Investigation
Ten-year trends in prescribing of antiarrhythmic drugs in Australian primary care patients with atrial fibrillation; Internal Medicine Journal
The impact of psycholeptic reduction in residential aged care facilities: Preliminary findings; 2015 Joint APSA-ASCEPT Annual Conference
The impact of psychotropic reduction within aged care facilities; 48th AAG National Conference
The impact of reducing sedatives on residents: the rationale for translating sedative reduction into clinical outcomes; 2015 Joint APSA-ASCEPT Annual Conference
The impact of sedative reduction on agitation and falls in aged care facilities: preliminary findings; 14th National Conference of Emerging Researchers in Ageing
The potential for intelligent decision support systems to improve the quality and consistency of medication reviews; Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics
Using principles from serious games to boost engagement with a smoking cessation app; SRNT Europe 2016 - 17th Annual Conference
Validation of decision support software for home medicines review; Graduate Research Conference (SEIR) 2012
Validation of decision support software for identification of drug-related problems in home medicines reviews; Making an Impact: 11th National Conference of Emerging Researchers in Ageing
Why 'RedUSe'? Rationale for studying the clinical outcomes of sedative reduction in the residential aged care setting; 13th National Conference of Emerging Researchers in Ageing
Why 'RedUSe'? Rationale for studying the clinical outcomes of sedative reduction in the residential aged care setting; 13th National Conference of Emerging Researchers in Ageing

Research Projects

Development and evaluation of a flexible and extensible computer-based simulation platform for healthcare students; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Evaluating a novel online interactive simulation platform for Western Australian healthcare training; WA Department of Health (WADH)
Pharmacy Simulator; CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Quittr: A game that wants you to quit; Heart Foundation (HF)
Reducing the use of sedative medication in aged care facilities (Implementation of the 'RedUSe' project into everyday practice); Department of Health and Ageing (DHA)
Wound Registry; Wound Management Innovation Cooperative Research Centre (CRCWMI)
Medicines Australia Continuing Education Program
Professional Practice Standards and Practice Guidelines for Clinical Interventions

Research Candidate Supervision

A Clinical and Economic Evaluation of Medication Reviews Conducted by Pharmacists for Community-Dwelling Australians
Evaluation of Clinical Decision Support Provided by Medication Review Software
Factors Influencing the Performance and Documentation of Clinical Interventions by Australian Community Pharmacists