Sutherland
Active research groups at Sutherland Hospital are detailed below:
Key contact:
A/Prof Peter Gonski
peter.gonski@health.nsw.gov.au
Research area: Aged care and chronic care.
Research clinicians:
Kylie Ditton
kylie.ditton@health.nsw.gov.au
Research area: Community aged care.
Dr Shikha Jain
Research area: Community aged care.
Jeannette Jarick
jeannette.jarick@health.nsw.gov.au
Research area: Aged care.
Key contact:
Professor Denis Wakefield
Research areas: Immunology, autoimmunity, allergy, immune deficiency.
Key contact:
Patricia Bradd
patricia.bradd@health.nsw.gov.au
Research areas: Allied health, leadership, culture and mixed methods evaluation.
Research clinicians:
Jocelyn Hickson
jocelyn.hickson@health.nsw.gov.au
Research areas: rural healthcare, health system redesign for isolated populations.
Karen Patterson
karen.patterson@health.nsw.gov.au
Research areas: Delivery of health care, integrated, people-centred outcomes, engaging and empowering individuals and communities, system leadership, mixed methods, case study, human centred co-design.
Key contact:
Dr Anne Wand
Research areas: Delirium, aspects of decision making capacity, self-harm in older people, evaluation of the effectiveness of consultation-liaison psychiatry services, clozapine use in older people.
Research Clinician:
Dr Elaine Kwan
Research areas: Cognitive disorders in chronic medical illness, depression in people receiving renal dialysis, anxiety disorders in older people.