Medical Education and Optometry
Postgraduate supervision
Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus
Professor Michael Berk
Psychiatry; mood disorders; mental health treatment and outcomes; psychiatric epidemiology; biomarkers in mental health; primary prevention of mental illness
Professor Brendan Crotty
Pre vocational and specialist medical education, and postgraduate medical training
Socio-economic determinants of health, health workforce, appropriate prescribing, care of the elderly in community settings, health of veterens
Professor David Watters
Surgical audits; health IT systems; surgical education
Professor Harrison Weisinger
Optometric education and eye health in regional Australia
Associate Professor Ross Carne
The effects of educational environment on course outcomes
Associate Professor Julie Pasco
The Geelong Osteoporosis Study, which generates evidence for defining the risk for osteoporosis and other chronic diseases; population-based cohort and case-control studies
Characterizing the biology and behaviour of macrophages and dendritic cells in the eye during normal homeostasis and ageing and also in response to a range of ocular pathologies including corneal inflammation/infection, intraocular inflammation and diabetic retinopathy.
Dr Karen D`Souza
Doctor Patient Theme; communicating with
patients, obtaining a medical history, clinical examination, appropriate investigation and the performance
of clinical procedures
Lifestyle based treatment interventions for clinical depressive illnesses; the role of diet, as well as physical activity and smoking, as risk factors for the common mental disorders; population-based approaches to the prevention of mental health problems.
