The CHSD Team
The Centre works as a multidisciplinary team and the
staff has qualifications and expertise across sixteen
disciplines. About half of the team has previous experience
working in policy, management and clinical positions
in the health system. There is a commitment to blending
quantitative and qualitative approaches and to producing
outputs that are easily understood, and that can be
of practical use. The CHSD team in 2008 are:
- Kathy Eagar, Professor and Director
of the CHSD
- Robert Gordon, Deputy Director
- Elizabeth Cuthbert, Business Manager
- Don Lewis, Professor (Health Economics)
- Ian Ring, Professor (Public Health)
- Peter Eklund, Professor and Head
of Information Systems (Health Informatics)
- Roy Harvey, Associate Professor (Health
Economics)
- J.E. (Ben) Marosszeky, Associate
Professor and Clinical Director of AROC
- Jim Pearse, Associate Professor (Health
Services Research)
- Heather Yeatman, Associate Professor
(Policy Research)
- Jan Sansoni,
Principal Research Fellow and Director, AHOC
- Gary Eckstein, Senior Research
Fellow (Medical Demography)
- Janette Green, Senior Research
Fellow (Applied Statistics)
- Malcolm Masso, Senior Research
Fellow (Health Services Research)
- Alan Owen, Senior
Research Fellow (Community Care Research)
- Karen Quinsey, Senior Research
Fellow (Health Services Research)
- Damian Ryan, Honorary Senior
Lecturer (Health Informatics)
- Frances Simmonds, Senior Research
Fellow (AROC Manager)
- Cristina Thompson, Senior Research Fellow (Health Services Research)
- Prue Watters, Senior Research Fellow
(PCOC Manager)
- Maree Banfield, Research Fellow
(Clinical Secondment)
- Monique Berger, Research Fellow (AROC)
- Lois Burgess, Lecturer in Information
Systems (Health Informatics)
- Alison Wicks, Honorary Research
Fellow (Occupational Science)
- Sonia Bird, Research Fellow (Applied Statistics)
- Joe Docherty, Analyst Programmer (PCOC)
- Dave Fildes, Research Fellow (Health
Services Research)
- Howard Hung , Database Manager
- Luise Lago, Research Fellow (Applied
Statistics)
- Janet Law, Research Fellow (AROC)
- Christopher Magee, Research Fellow
- Nick Marosszeky, Research Fellow
(Psychometrics)
- Catherine Rostron, Research Fellow
- Peter Samsa, Research Fellow (Health
Informatics)
- Tara Stevermuer, Research Fellow
(Applied Statistics)
- Anita Westera, Research Fellow
(Health Services Research)
- Kate Williams, Research Fellow (Health
Services Research)
- Joseph Carolan, Associate Research Fellow
- Pam Grootemaat, Associate Fellow
(Health Services Research)
- Jodie Molinia, Associate Research Fellow (AROC)
- Jason Sargent, Research Assistant
(Health Informatics)
- Cheryl Blissett, Administrative
Officer (PCOC)
- Julie de Clouet, FIM Manager &
Adminstrative Support (AROC)
- Jing Chen, Web based reporting (AROC)
- Alex Verdon, Receptionist/Administrative
Assistant
- Karen Ford, Administrative Assistant/Project
Support (PCOC)
- Rebecca Lewis, Administrative Assistant
- Emily Sansoni, Research Assistant
- Darcy Morris, Administrative Assistant/Project
Support
Other Affiliates
In addition to core staff, the CHSD has a number of
honorary fellows and affiliates who collaborate with
us on specific research projects and play a key role
in forging links between the CHSD and the health industry.
Honorary fellows and affiliates include:
- Dr Andrew Bezzina, South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service
- Dr Thomas Trauer, University of Melbourne
- Mr Tim Coombs, Australian Mental Health Outcomes Classification Network
- Dr Roslyn Poulos, University of NSW
- Ms Rebekkah Middleton, Illawarra Health
- Ms Tineke Robinson, Independent Consultant
- Dr Mark Rix, Graduate School of Business (University of Wollongong)
- Ms Carla Cranny, Independent Consultant
- Dr Ngaire Brown, Menzies School of Health Research
- Mr Tom Cleary, OPSM
- Professor David Currow, Flinders University of South Australia
- Dr Christopher Poulos, South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service
- Ms Mary Ellen Burke, Independent Consultant
- Professor Robert Gibberd, University of Newcastle
Kathy Eagar,
Professor and Director of the CHSD (email)
Professor Eagar is Director of the Centre and is involved
in all aspects of the Centre’s work. Kathy has
over twenty five years experience in the health and
community care systems, during which she has divided
her time almost equally between being a clinician, a
senior manager and a health academic.
Robert Gordon,
Deputy Director (email)
Robert Gordon’s full-time position at CHSD supports
research projects in sub and non-acute care, casemix
development, community health classification and health
financing. Rob undertakes the day to day management
of the Centre and directly manages many of its projects.
Elizabeth Cuthbert,
Business Manager (email)
Elizabeth joined the Centre in 2003 as the full time
Business Manager. Elizabeth is responsible for managing
the Centre’s finances, negotiating all Centre
contracts, and managing the Centre’s IT requirements.
She is also responsible for coordinating the development
of refinements to SNAPshot, an integrated software package
developed and managed by the Centre.
Don Lewis, Professor
(Health Economics) (email)
Professor Lewis is now retired as Professor of Economics
and Associate Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Commerce.
Don joined the Centre to assist future health research
from his perspective as a former President of the Australian
Health Economics Society (1994 to 1999) and his research
interests in health economics include environmental
health, program evaluation and private health insurance.
Ian Ring, Professor
(Public Health) (email)
Ian Ring is a part-time Professorial Fellow-Academic
Development, at the CHSD. Ian was previously Principle
Medical Epidemiologist and Executive Director of the
Health Information Branch at Qld Health and had also
been Head of the School of Public Health and Tropical
Medicine at James Cook University, and Foundation Director
of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute
at ANU. He is a medical graduate with qualifications
in epidemiology and public health. His current research
interests are particularly in Indigenous health and
Cardiovascular health. His main role is to assist in
strengthening the research capacity of the Centre.
Peter Eklund, Professor and
Head of Information Systems (Health Informatics) (email)
Professor Eklund is the Chair of Information Systems
at the University of Wollongong. Peter's interests are
in Health Informatics modelling and the management of
electronic healthcare documents and terminologies.
Roy Harvey, Associate
Professor (Health Economics) (email)
Associate Professor Roy Harvey’s research interests
focus on outcomes data and its use in benchmarking and
health financing research. Roy is also a health policy
adviser to the Australian Council of Social Service
and, as part of that role, convenor of the Access to
Medicines Consortium (comprising ACOSS, Medicines Australia,
Australian Medical Association, Consumers' Health Forum
and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, a group concerned
with barriers to access to medicines). Since 1995, Roy
has been involved in consultancies on health financing
for the World Bank and AusAID in Eastern Europe, South
East Asia and China. Roy holds a fractional position
at the CHSD.
J.E. (Ben) Marosszeky,
Associate Professor and Clinical Director of AROC (email)
Associate Professor Ben Marosszeky took up a part-time
position at CHSD in 2002 as the inaugural Clinical Director
of AROC. He is also the Director of the Department of
Rehabilitation Medicine at Westmead Hospital, a Clinical
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine at University
of Sydney and a Councillor of the World Forum of Neurological
Rehabilitation. Dr Marosszeky brings to the CHSD wide
ranging and internationally recognised clinical experience
in rehabilitation medicine.
Jim Pearse,
Associate Professor (Health Services Research) (email)
Associate Professor Jim Pearse recently joined the
centre on a part time basis after 18 years working in
various health and social policy roles in Government
in NSW and the Northern Territory. His research interests
include funding models, resource allocation and priority
setting within health systems, national/state relations
within federal health systems and measurement of health
system performance. Jim was a 2000-2001 Commonwealth
Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy.
Heather Yeatman,
Associate Professor (Policy Research) (email)
Dr Heather Yeatman is an Associate Professor in the
Graduate School of Public Health and undertakes her
research as a member of the CHSD. Within the Centre,
Heather has a key role in work on healthy public policy,
with a specific focus on food policy, and how this translates
into standards and regulation.
Jan Sansoni, Principal
Research Fellow and Director of AHOC (email)
Jan Sansoni is the Director of the Australian Health
Outcomes Collaboration (AHOC). Jan provides research
support and education to the health and community industry
by assisting individuals, services and government departments
with outcome evaluation of health care interventions
and services. Through AHOC Jan convenes a national health
outcomes conference in Canberra each year, is active
in a number of international collaborations concerning
health outcomes measurement, and undertakes a range
of health outcomes research consultancy activities.
Gary Eckstein,
Senior Research Fellow (Medical Demography) (email)
Dr Gary Eckstein holds part-time positions with the
CHSD and the Health Services Research Group, University
of Newcastle. Gary participates as a senior researcher
developing projects in health demography, and providing
expert statistical advice in the areas of health financing
and resource distribution.
Janette
Green, Senior Research Fellow (Applied Statistics)
(email)
Janette Green’s full-time position provides expert
statistical skills on projects, primarily in classification
development, benchmarking and outcome measurement. She
has applied her statistical skills to a wide range of
areas in the health sector, including rehabilitation,
mental health and palliative care. In addition, she
continues with undergraduate teaching and, from time
to time, she runs workshops for health professionals
on the use and interpretation of statistics. A new venture
in 2005 was to coordinate some international comparisons
of rehabilitation data within the International Rehabilitation
Outcomes Network.
Malcolm
Masso, Senior Research Fellow (Health Services
Research) (email)
Malcolm Masso is a full-time Senior Research Fellow
at the CHSD. Prior to joining the Centre he worked for
over 25 years in the health system as a clinician and
manager, including 15 years of executive responsibility
for clinical services in both large and small hospitals
in rural and metropolitan areas. He has academic qualifications
in economics, nursing administration and public health.
Malcolm is currently involved in two national palliative
care projects and a project examining the relationship
between primary care services and emergency departments.
Alan Owen, Senior
Research Fellow (Community Care Research) (email)
Alan Owen holds a full-time position at the CHSD and
his research interest is in tools for measuring client
characteristics in the community, covering disability
and aged care, mental health and community health. Alan
also provides assistance on local evaluation plans and
surveys and other Centre projects. Alan is also a health
policy adviser for ACOSS and is a member of the Guardianship
and Mental Health ReviewTribunals.
Karen Quinsey,
Senior Research Fellow (Health Services Research) (email)
Karen Quinsey is a part time Senior Resaearch Fellow
at the CHSD. Karen joined CHSD in 2002 on a part-time
basis to manage AROC's function as the Australasian
manager of the Functional Independence Measure. Karen
had previously worked in the Centre on secondment from
Illawarra Health. Karen has worked in the health system
in Occupational Therapy, Community Health Management
and Health Service Improvement. Her academic qualifications
are in Occupational Therapy and Public Health. Karen
is currently managing the two national palliative care
projects and working on the AROC team.
Frances Simmonds, Senior Research
Fellow (AROC Manager) (email)
Frances Simmonds is appointed as the AROC Manager,
and commenced duties with CHSD in mid January 2006.
Frances brings to CHSD extensive health sector experience
at a senior level in both the public and private sectors.
Most recently, Frances has been employed as the National
Director, Funder Relations for the Sisters of Charity
Health Service. During the last 12 years, Frances has
filled several senior executive roles, all of which
have involved management of national projects or functions.
As the AROC Manager, Frances has key responsibility
for managing the project on a day to day basis.
Cristina Thompson, Senior Research Fellow (Health Service Research) (email)
Cristina Thompson joined CHSD in July 2008. In the full-time position of Senior Research Fellow, she supports research projects in the areas of health policy, strategy, service development and planning. Prior to joining the Centre Cristina worked for over 25 years in the health system as a clinician and senior manager, in both rural and metropolitan health settings. Her most recent role included responsibility for strategy, planning and corporate development for a major NSW Area Health Service. Cristina trained as a Registered Nurse and Registered Midwife and has academic qualifications in Sociology, Public Sector and Business Administration.
Prue Watters, Senior Research Fellow
(PCOC Manager) (email)
Prue Watters has 18 years’ experience managing
projects on behalf of donors such as AusAID and the
Asian Development Bank, gained while employed by IDP
Education Australia. Over six years, her work with the
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons resulted in their
successfully tendering for four AusAID-funded projects
with a combined value of $19m. Prue also partnered Aus
Health International to tender successfully for health
reform projects in Fiji and Tonga.
Damian Ryan, Honorary Senior
Lecturer (Health Informatics) (email)
Dr. Ryan is the Director of TACT at the South East
Illawarra Area Health Service and partner investigator
in the ePOC ARC Linkage grant investigating the use
of PDAs to collect clinical data in the health in the
home setting.
Maree Banfield, Research
Fellow (Clinical Secondment) (email)
Maree Banfield, the Palliative Care Service Manager
at Calvary Health Care, Sydney, joined the Centre in
2005 on a practitioner fellowship. She works within
the Centre on palliative care projects, and also undertakes
projects at Calvary using resources and support from
the Centre.
Monique Berger, Research Fellow (AROC) (email)
Monique is a registered nurse with extensive experience in rehabilitation nursing. Monique joined CHSD in 2008 and works as an AROC Master FIM trainer. Monique has a particular focus on expanding AROC’s network into New Zealand.
Lois Burgess, Lecturer in Information
Systems (Health Informatics) (email)
Lois is a Chief investigator on the ePOC ARC Linkage
grant which investigates the use of PDA's as a platform
for data collection in the health in the home.
Alison Wicks, Honorary Research
Fellow (Occupational Science) (email)
Dr Alison Wicks was appointed as an Honorary Research
Fellow in January 2005. She is the Founding Director
of the Australasian
Occupational Science Centre (AOSC) which is a new
research centre within CHSD. The AOSC is located at
the Shoalhaven Campus in Nowra. Alison is an occupational
therapist with 25 years experience as a health practitioner.
Since 2000, she has been focusing on research in occupational
science. Occupational science is a broad interdisciplinary
field concerned with the study of human occupation in
relation to health in daily living and with the social
classificiations economics, policies, systems, culture
and geography that govern human occupation. Alison is
President of the Australasian Society of Occupational
Scientists and Project Leader of the World Federation
of Occupational Therapists International Advisory Group:
Occupational Science.
Sonia Bird, Research Fellow (Applied Statistics) (email)
Sonia Bird is a full time member of CHSD, supporting research projects including Palliative Care and the NSW Clinical Services Redesign Program. Her work involves data management, statistical analysis and report writing. Sonia has tertiary qualifications in Mathematics, Applied Statistics and Finance.
Joe Docherty, Analyst Programmer (PCOC) (email)
Joe joined the CHSD in July 2008 and is working primarily with the PCOC team to improve the PCOC data submission and reporting functions.
Dave Fildes, Research
Fellow (Health Services Research) (email)
Dave Fildes holds a full time position at the CHSD.
He conducts literature reviews, contributing to the
development of policy options and preparing reports
for Government agencies across a range of subject areas
as part of his research at the Centre. He is involved
in a variety of CHSD projects including palliative care
service delivery and community development and assessment.
Dave has tertiary qualifications in Communication and
Cultural Studies, Politics and Public Health.
Howard Hung, Database Manager
(email)
Howard joined CHSD in July 2006, he is the Database
Manager. His expertise is in database and application
design. He worked for various banks and Far West Health
Services before he joined CHSD.
Luise Lago,
Research Fellow (Applied Statistics) (email)
Luise Lago is a full-time member of the CHSD, joining
in 2004. Luise supports research projects which involve
statistical work including survey design and classifications
development. Luise has experience in sample design and
data analysis. Her academic qualifications are in Mathematics
and Applied Statistics.
Janet Law, Research Fellow (AROC) (email)
Janet is an occupational therapist who also works at Royal Ryde Rehabilitation Centre. Janet joined CHSD in 2007 an has worked with AROC as a Master FIM trainer and has taken a lead role in providing the AROC impairment specific benchmarking workshops.
Christopher Magee, Research Fellow (email)
Nick Marosszeky,
Research Fellow (Psychometrics) (email)
Nick is a specialist in psychometrics and health outcomes
measurement. He joined the Centre after experience in
evaluation and psychological research and has worked
on assessment and information issues in primary care.
He works closely with AHOC on the psychometrics and
evidence for how outcomes measures can be used.
Catherine Rostron, Research Fellow (email)
Catherine Rostron joined the CHSD on a full-time basis in June 2007. Catherine brings almost 20 years Commonwealth Government experience to CHSD, including as a policy officer with the Pharmaceuticals Benefits and Private Health Industry Divisions and with the National Health and Medical Research Council. Catherine supports various CHSD projects involving database design and statistical analysis, from surveys and modelling, to assisting with AROC data management. Her qualifications are in science and computing.
Peter Samsa,
Research Fellow (Health Informatics) (email)
Peter Samsa joined the Centre in 2005 after working
for the Council of Social Service of NSW and a variety
of non-Government human service organisations. His interests
include health informatics, and data standards for health
and human services. He has academic qualifications in
Social Work, and Information and Communication Technology.
Tara Stevermuer,
Research Fellow (Applied Statistics) (email)
Tara Stevermuer is a full time member of CHSD where
she is the AROC Data Manager and CHSD website administrator.
Tara is also involved in various CHSD projects, ranging
from community health and community care surveys, evaluation
of Community Health Asthma Program (CHAP), to building
databases to assist prioritorisation for service for
NSW Home Care and NSW Provision of Appliances for Disabled
People (PADP). Tara brings extensive statistical and
database management skills to CHSD. Tara holds a conjoint
appointment as lecturer to the Faculty of Medicine,
UNSW.
Anita Westera,
Research Fellow (Health Services Research) (email)
Anita Westera joined the CHSD on a part-time basis
in July 2005. Anita has over 20 years experience working
in the health, aged and community care sectors, as a
Registered Nurse as well as policy officer for the Commonwealth
and NSW Governments and advisor for the former NSW Minister
of Ageing. Anita is a member of the Board of UnitingCare
Ageing, the largest provider of aged care services in
NSW.
Kate Williams,
Research Fellow (Health Services Research)
(email)
Kathryn (Kate) Williams has qualifications in psychology
and journalism. Since joining the CHSD on a part-time
basis in 2004, Kate has contributed to a variety of
projects, including literature reviews, health program
and palliative care evaluation, the design and pilot
testing of tools for priority setting and a catalogue
of evidence-based strategies for the Best Start early
intervention program.
Joseph Carolan, Associate Research Fellow (email)
Joseph joined the Centre in June 2008 after completion of his studies in chemistry and statistics. He works in statistical analysis contributing to various projects including the Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) and the Clinical Services Redesign Program.
Pam Grootemaat,
Associate Fellow (Health Services Research)
(email)
Pam Grootemaat joined the CHSD on a full-time basis
in July 2005. Pam previously worked in research and
evaluation for mental health promotion. She has academic
qualifications in nutrition and public health. Pam supports
research projects in health system classification, policy
and funding reform within health and community care
services.
Jodie Molinia, Associate Research Fellow (AROC) (email)
Jodie joined the CHSD in August 2008. Jodie is a registered nurse with experience in the ambulatory sector. Jodie will contribute to the role out of the AROC ambulatory dataset.
Jason Sargent, Research Assistant
(Health Informatics) (email)
Jason is a full-time research assistant funded by the
ARC working on the ePOC ARC Linkage grant.
Cheryl Blissett, Administrative
Officer (PCOC) (email)
Cheryl joined the CHSD in March 2006 and is the administration
officer for PCOC, and also provides administrative support
for the Centre.
Julie de Clouet, FIM Manager &
Adminstrative Support (AROC) (email)
Julie joined the CHSD in March 2007 as the FIM Manager,
and also provides administrative support for AROC.
Jing Chen, Web based reporting
(AROC) (email)
Jing is employed by AROC to work on the design, build
and support of AROC Online Services (AOS), a web based
reporting system that automates the processes of data
submission, auditing and reporting for over 100 rehabilitation
facilities across Australia. AROC Online Services had
its origins as a university assignment started by Jing
and fellow students. AOS uses Tomcat server and SQL
server.
Alex Verdon,
Receptionist/Administrative Assistant (email)
Alex joined the CHSD in March 2007 and provides both
reception and administrative support for the Centre.
Karen Ford, Administrative Assistant/Project
Support (AROC) (email)
Karen joined the CHSD in July 2007 and provides both
administrative and project support for the Centre.
Rebecca Lewis, Administrative Assistant
Rebecca joined the CHSD in August 2008 and will general administrative assistance and specific project support.
Emily Sansoni, Research Assistant
(email)
Emily provides research support to AHOC. In particular,
she assists with the completion of HRQOL and Health
Outcomes measurement projects, as well as the writing
and editing of manuscripts.
Darcy Morris,
Administrative Assistant/Project Support (email)
Darcy provides both administrative and project support
for the Centre.
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