researchers

// our researchers

Professor Lily Dongxia Xiao : 
Professor Lily Xiao is an internationally recognised dementia caregiving researcher and a key contributor to the World Health organization (WHO) iSupport for Dementia program, an online education program for informal carers of people living with dementia. She has led a research team to adapt the WHO iSupport program in Australia. http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/lily.xiao

Professor Julie Ratcliffe:
Julie Ratcliffe is Matthew Flinders Fellow and Professor of Health Economics in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. She is the Health and Social Care Economics Theme Lead for the newly established Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University and also holds Honorary Professorial positions in the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow and the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield.

Dr Claudia Meyer:
Claudia, as a Research Fellow within the Bolton Clarke Research Institute, combines her research skills with clinical physiotherapy experience, particularly for older people and their carers. Her field of interest is implementing research evidence into practice and policy, underpinned by a health equity focus, specifically in the areas of dementia care and frailty/falls prevention. Claudia is actively involved with the Australian Association of Gerontology, being the current Vice President, and also represents the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics Student and Early Career group within the Asia/Oceania region.

https://www.boltonclarke.com.au/about-us/BCRI/research-team/

Dr Michael Chapman:
Michael is a geriatrician and palliative medicine physician who works as director of palliative care at Canberra Hospital. His published academic interests include using systems thinking in healthcare, the integration of specialist palliative services into aged care, dementia care and quality dying in the acute setting.

Ms Langduo Chen:

Langduo works as a Nurse Unit Manager in a specialist stroke rehabilitation unit at Flinders Medical Centre in South Australia. She has extensive experience in stroke recovery and rehabilitation especially for people with cognitive impairment. Her research interest is in hospital to home transition care for patients and caregivers.

Dr Shahid Ullah:
Dr Shahid Ullah has an extensive expertise in theory and practice of biostatistics in health and health service research. He provides high-level leadership and advice on health and medical research including developing and applying advanced statistical methods in large and complex projects on the use of R and Stata packages.

Professor Alison Kitson:
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lison Kitson is the inaugural Vice President and Executive Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University South Australia. She is a respected international researcher in nursing, focusing on fundamentals of care and knowledge translation.

https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/alison.kitson

Dr Andre Andrade:
Andre Andrade, MD. PhD, – Senior Research Fellow in Digital Health at UniSA’s Quality Use of Medicine Research Centre (QUMPRC).

A physician and digital health entrepreneur, Andre joined UniSA after more than a decade in the health industry. He researches the use of digital health tools to improve therapeutic choice and use, in particular:

  • Therapy-related clinical decision-making, for prescription and deprescription
  • Consumer-facing tools, such as digital biomarkers and behaviour change applications

https://people.unisa.edu.au/Andre.Andrade

// investigators in the DCRC Grants

Prof Lily Dongxia Xiao (CI) – Flinders University
Prof Julie Ratcliffe (AI) – Flinders University
Prof Alison Kitson (AI) – Flinders University
Dr Shahid Ullah (AI) – Flinders University
Prof Craig Whitehead (AI) – SALHN/FMC
Dr Claudia Meyer(AI) – Bolton Clarke Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria
Dr Michael Chapman (AI) – Canberra Hospital/ Australian National University
Sue McKechnie (AI) – Resthaven

Key Program Partners

Resthaven
SA Health
Bolton Clarke