Our People
The area of digital health spans all disciplines: meet some of the researchers doing work in this space
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Audiology and Speech Pathology
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Clinical Researcher | Research areas include language development, cochlear implants, hearing loss and health informatics
Email: dawn.choo@unimelb.edu.au
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Principal Research Fellow, Director of Research | Listening experiences of people living with hearing loss, improving clinical management for people using hearing devices, and digital tool development
Email: kgalvin@unimelb.edu.au
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Dame Kate Campbell Fellow, Director or Centre of Research Excellence in Speech and Language | Research areas include child speech and language development and speech genomics
Email: amor@unimelb.edu.au
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Senior Lecturer | Research areas include child communication development, stuttering, epidemiological studies, implementation science
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Lecturer | Research areas include global audiology: highlighting the need for prioritised public policies and interventions for the delivery of effective ear and hearing care services in low-and middle-income countries
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Professor of Speech Science | Research areas include speech and language biomarkers, neurodegenerative disease, clinical trials, monitoring brain health through digital technologies, swallowing and mealtime outcomes
Email: vogela@unimelb.edu.au
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Senior Lecturer | Research areas include cochlear implants, maternal input and factors affecting communication development for children with hearing loss
Email: dettmans@unimelb.edu.au
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Optometry and Vision Sciences
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Professor | Research areas include improving the understanding and clinical assessment of visual disorder of the eye and brain (specific interests in glaucoma, migraine, and ageing).
Email: allisonm@unimelb.edu.au
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Associate Professor and Dame Kate Campbell Fellow | Research areas include ocular diagnostics and therapeutics, tear biomarkers, clinical trials and research translation.
Email: ldownie@unimelb.edu.au
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Orthoptist, Clinical Vision Research Fellow | Research areas include Digital Health, Childrens Vision, Public Eye Health, Eyecare across the Lifespan, Binocular Vision.
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Research Fellow (Industry Engagement) and Optometrist | Research areas include neurodegeneration, diagnostics and therapies, research translation, improving health services.
Email: huif@unimelb.edu.au
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Associate Professor | Behavioural investigation of human vision, both in health and disease; Factors affecting decision-making processes in the brain.
Email: aaj@unimelb.edu.au
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Postdoctoral Clinical Research Fellow | Research areas include dry eye disease, blue light and ocular health, evidence synthesis and translational research.
Email: sumeer.singh@unimelb.edu.au
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Assoc. Professor | Research areas include preclinical investigation of vision and the retinal vasculature in healthy ageing; mechanisms of age-related susceptibility to neurodegeneration.
Email: bvb@unimelb.edu.au
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Senior Lecturer and Optometric Clinician | Research areas using the eye as a marker for brain disease (specific interests in Parkinsons and Alzheimers disease) in preclinical and clinical space.
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Senior Lecturer | Research areas include digital technologies for feedback and assessment, inter-professional education, and inter-disciplinary object-based learning engaging with material culture.
Email: ckwang@unimelb.edu.au
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Lecturer, optometrist and human visual neuroscientist | Research areas include understanding eye and brain changes with healthy and pathological ageing, childhood and adolescent development, vision anomalies in ophthalmic and neurological disorders.
Email: bnguyen@unimelb.edu.au
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Clinical Research Optometrist | Research areas include management of dry eye disease, childhood myopia and developement of myopia control devices.
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Associate Professor, 4th year OD Coordinator | Evidence-based practice.
Email: mjp@unimelb.edu.au
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Senior Clinical Research Optometrist | Research areas include anterior ocular disease, therapeutic clinical trials and research translation.
Email: ji-hyun.lee@unimelb.edu.au
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Postdoctoral Researcher | Research areas include healthy ageing, migraine, magnetic resonance spectroscopy and visual snow.
Email: yu.chan@unimelb.edu.au
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Physiotherapy
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Clinical Research Fellow | Research areas include critical care recovery and rehabilitation, frailty and digital health
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Physiotherapist, Senior Lecturer, Research Fellow | Digital Technologies
Email: merollim@unimelb.edu.au
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Senior Research Fellow | Research areas include the brain-behaviour nexus during rehabilitation after stroke
Email: kate.hayward@unimelb.edu.au
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NHMRC Research Fellow | Research expertise includes anterior cruciate ligament injury and knee osteoarthritis outcomes and interventions
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Chair in Physiotherapy at Austin Health | Research areas include sleep and breathing disorders in neuromuscular disease, health systems and data research, clinical trials of therapies and care models
Email: djberl@unimelb.edu.au
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Senior Research Fellow, NHMRC Emerging Leader, Dame Kate Campbell Fellow | Research areas include osteoarthritis. exercise, biomechanics; meta-analyses, clinical trials
Email: halm@unimelb.edu.au
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Research areas include improving the health of people with chronic musculoskeletal conditions, especially osteoarthritis, implementation science, and increasing access to care, including telerehabilitation and digital health
Email: ranash@unimelb.edu.au
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Deputy Head of Physiotherapy | Research areas include exercise for chronic musculoskeletal conditions, hip & knee osteoarthritis, outcome measurement, meta-analysis
Email: fdobson@unimelb.edu.au
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Associate Dean (Research) Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences | Her research interest include infant and child development, early intervention, parent well-being, consumer engagement and implementation science
Email: aspittle@unimelb.edu.au
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Lecturer | Research areas include stroke rehabilitation, balance training, falls prevention, motion-tracking technologies and telehealth
Email: bower@unimelb.edu.au
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Research Fellow | Research areas include early detection assessment and implementation of movement problems in high risk infants
Email: amanda.kwong@unimelb.edu.au
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Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, NHMRC Investigator Fellow and Dame Kate Campbell Fellow. Director of the Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine | Research focus is on the management of musculoskeletal conditions particularly
Email: k.bennell@unimelb.edu.au
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Research Assistant | Areas of research include telehealth and implementation of health services to help improve the lives of those with chronic musculoskeletal pain (e.g. osteoarthritis)
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A/Professor Physiotherapy Western Health | Research interests include rehabilitation and fall prevention in older people and people with neurological disorders
Email: csaid@unimelb.edu.au
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Social Work
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Associate Professor in Social Work, Director of Learning and Teaching, MSHS | Research areas include impact of criminal justice system, trauma and mental health, alcohol and other drugs, domestic & family violence, children and families across
Email: drose@unimelb.edu.au
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Professor - Direct Practice | Research areas include clarifying, measuring and evaluating the outcomes of social interventions in health and mental health, focusing on the contribution of formal and informal social network factors
Email: ljoubert@unimelb.edu.au
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