A Public Health Expert, Accredited Statistician (AStat), and registered (AHPRA) medical doctor with 10 years of experience in applying advanced statistical modelling and machine learning to clinical, public health and social research and 5 years of clinical experience. Expertise in managing and analysing large-scale population datasets (1.8 million+ records) using R/R Shiny, Stata, PL/SQL, Python, SAS and Qlik.
Proven track record of leading research projects from conception to publication with a focus on statistics and data science. Statistical author of 30 articles in PubMed journals with over 790 citations.
My research is in the areas of poverty, crime, social disadvantage, prenatal drug abuse, neonatology, children with disabilities, mental health, out-of-home care, addiction, Aboriginal Health, communicable diseases, cancer, heart disease, smoking cessation, breastfeeding, health and well-being, health education and aged care.
Worked in Psychiatry treating Aboriginal People with mental illness from remote areas.
Took the history and mental state of patients and liaised with the multidisciplinary team. Prescribed medication, performed on-call duties, did ECT under supervision
Taught Medical students about psychiatry regularly by teaching them psychiatric theory and interview skills