Associate Professor Paul Bennett
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| Position: |
Associate Professor |
| School: |
School of Nursing and Midwifery |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
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| Mobile: |
0438 834 706 |
| Email: |
pbennett@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Exercise, nutrition and self management, particularly for people living with chronic kidney disease. Dialysis. Nursing. |
| Category: |
nursing, disease, health and wellbeing |
Dr Tim Crowe
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| Position: |
Associate Professor |
| School: |
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 9251 7266 |
| Mobile: |
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| Email: |
tcrowe@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Nutrition in cancer prevention and treatment. Alternative diets in cancer. Fad diets and weight loss. General nutrition. |
| Category: |
nutrition, disease, diet/dieting |
Dr Paul Lewandowski
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| Position: |
Senior Lecturer |
| School: |
School of Medicine |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 5227 1111 |
| Mobile: |
0417 128 731 |
| Email: |
lewandow@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Human nutrition. Free radicals and oxidative stress. Antioxidants and the treatment of disease. Lifestyle treatment of disease. Cancer cachexia. Metabolic syndrome. Rural health.
Bio-markers of disease
Nutrient and gene interactions
Anatomy teaching
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| Category: |
nutrition, health and wellbeing, disease |
Professor Julian Mercer
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| Position: |
Alfred Deakin Professor |
| School: |
School of Life and Environmental Sciences |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Science and Technology |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 9251 7329 |
| Mobile: |
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| Email: |
jmercer@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Human genetics. Gene cloning. Copper metabolism. Genetic diseases. Menkes disease. Wilson disease. |
| Category: |
genetics, disease |
Mr Neville Millen
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| Position: |
Senior Lecturer |
| School: |
School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Campus: |
Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 5227 1172 |
| Mobile: |
0418 578 025 |
| Email: |
sociom@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Sociology and the law. Criminology. Contestable diseases such as CFS. Chronic illness. Public health issues. Attitude surveys results. Popular cultural change. |
| Category: |
law, crime, disease, health and wellbeing, culture |
Professor Caryl Nowson
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| Position: |
Professor of Nutrition and Ageing |
| School: |
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 9251 7272 |
| Mobile: |
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| Email: |
nowson@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Nutrition: calcium, vitamin D and osteoporosis. Nutrition and cardiovascular disease, particularly related to hypertension. |
| Category: |
nutrition, disease |
Dr Sharleen O'Reilly
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| Position: |
Senior Lecturer |
| School: |
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 9244 6778 |
| Mobile: |
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| Email: |
sharleen@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
General health and nutrition. Diabetes and heart disease prevention. Diet and disease particularly gut health and cancer. Micronutrients such as folate, B12 and other B vitamins. |
| Category: |
nutrition, diet/dieting, disease |
Professor Jo Salmon
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| Position: |
Associate Head of School (Research) |
| School: |
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 9251 7254 |
| Mobile: |
0425 735 445 |
| Email: |
jsalmon@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Physical activity in the population using a behavioural epidemiological approach. Physical activity measurement—development and use of survey instruments (for monitoring and research), accelerometers (activity monitors), pedometers. Sedentary behaviours—television viewing, electronic games, computer use. Physical activity of special population groups—children, adolescents, adults, older adults. Prevention of overweight/obesity, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis. Mental health. |
| Category: |
children, health and wellbeing, youth/young people's issues, obesity, disease, exercise/physical activity, mental health |
Professor Steve Selig
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| Position: |
Chair, Clinical Exercise Science |
| School: |
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
03 9251 7165 |
| Mobile: |
0418 570 772 |
| Email: |
sselig@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Exercise for people with chronic cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, depression or risk factors for any of those conditions. |
| Category: |
health and wellbeing, obesity, diabetes, disease, mental health |
Professor Alister Ward
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| Position: |
Associate Head of School (Research) |
| School: |
School of Medicine |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 5227 2041 |
| Mobile: |
0401 153 277 |
| Email: |
award@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Blood cells. Cancer. Medical research. Research funding. Research careers. Biosafety. |
| Category: |
medicine, disease, ethics |
Dr Merridee Wouters
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| Position: |
Senior Lecturer |
| School: |
School of Life and Environmental Sciences |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Science and Technology |
| Campus: |
Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 522 72146 |
| Mobile: |
0400 470 915 |
| Email: |
mdeea@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Use of biological databases to find genes underlying genetic diseases and molecular pathways important in oxidative stress and aging. Bioinformatics. Data mining. |
| Category: |
health and wellbeing, disease, genetics |
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