Keywords
Fields of Research (FoR)
Mental health services, People with disability, Health equity, Mental Health, Public Health and Health ServicesSEO tags
Biography
I am a registered psychologist and early career researcher with broad research interests including neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry. My clinical and research experience includes working with people with mild and major neurocognitive disorders, intellectual and developmental disability, mental health conditions, and inherited neurodegenerative disorders including fragile X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome and Huntington disease. I am...view more
I am a registered psychologist and early career researcher with broad research interests including neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry. My clinical and research experience includes working with people with mild and major neurocognitive disorders, intellectual and developmental disability, mental health conditions, and inherited neurodegenerative disorders including fragile X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome and Huntington disease. I am currently involved in a number of educational and research activities in the Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) which aim to improve health outcomes for people with intellectual and developmental disability, neurological conditions, and mental health conditions. My current projects utilise a broad range of research methods including surveys, interviews, Delphi method, and data linkage.
My Qualifications
- Bachelor of Psychology (Honours), Southern Cross University
- Master of Brain and Mind Sciences, The University of Sydney
- PhD (Psychiatry), UNSW Sydney
My Research Activities
Selection of current research projects
- Improving palliative care services for people with an intellectual disability.
- Health profiles, health services use and transition to dementia in individuals with self-harm.
Past projects
- Understanding the health and support needs of younger people with disabilities discharged from hospital to residential aged care.
- Using big data to understand the health status, service use, and service pathways of people with less common types of dementia.
- Addressing preventable disease burden to improve health outcomes for people with schizophrenia and related psychoses.
- Equipping future psychiatrists to meet the mental health needs of people with intellectual and developmental disability.
- Scoping work for a State-wide tertiary intellectual disability mental health service.
- Thinking and motor skills in premutation carriers of Fragile X.
- Using big data to understand the health status and service use of people with motor neurone disease.
- Using big data to understand the predictors of repeated self-harm in people with mental health and drug and alcohol comorbidity.
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
Areas of supervision
Health outcomes for people with intellectual and developmental disability, neurological conditions, and/or mental health conditions
Currently supervising
My Engagement
Membership
- Co-Chair, UNSW Medicine & Health Early Career Academic Network
- Co-Chair, UNSW Women in Research Network (WiRN)
- Member, UNSW Medicine & Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- Student Coordinator, Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry, UNSW Sydney
- Member, The Fragile X Association of Australia Research and Scientific Committee
In the media
My Teaching
I currently teach into Phase 3 Medicine (Psychiatry, MFAC3503).
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8026-2155