My goal is to help prevent and alleviate suffering for the sickest, poorest, and most vulnerable people through research and discovery.
I have 11 years of experience applying machine learning and biostatistics to clinical/public health research (30 articles on PubMed & 800 citations) and 4 years of experience in clinical psychiatry. I have general medical registration with AHPRA.
My research includes the areas of poverty, crime, social disadvantage, prenatal drug abuse, prematurity, 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.
Prenatal Drug Exposure, prematurity and inhaled nitric oxide treatment, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, unsupervised clustering of neonatal ICU infants and short-term/long-term outcomes/cost to health services/education /, out-of-home care outcomes and service utilisation for babies and their mothers. Derived results for a population birth cohort 'Joining the Dots' of 1.8 million babies and their mothers in NSW between 2001 and 2020. Methods focused on causal mediation analysis.
Supervising Clinicians and Honours Research Students as a Medical Statistician and co-supervisor. Two of my honours students were Gold Medallists in their seminar series.