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.
Evaluating primary care and primary mental health care services in reducing social gradients in mental health and chronic disease outcomes for patients with mental illness
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry
Completed Stage 1 Psychiatry and CPD for Basic Training in Psychiatry, rotations in Inpatient Psychiatry, Old Age Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry, psychopharmacology and the delivery of ECT. Developed skills in active listening, collecting history and mental state formulation, and developing a multidisciplinary treatment plan. I began to understand the chaos mental illness causes in human life.
Rotations: Rural and Indigenous Health, HIV, Public Health Unit (Communicable Disease and Environmental Health), Childhood Disability, Addiction and Pharmacoepi (TGA)
Honours Thesis: A Pharmacological mechanism for the Clinical Benefits of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors: Analyses of randomised controlled trials
National Rural Health (Oral) 2015 | RACP 2016 (Oral: Gerry Murphy Prize) |Australian Public Health 2019 (Oral) UN Datathon (Education Track): https://youtu.be/QwGhcoJ17JY?