Dean of the School of Medicine
Professor Gary D. Rogers is a health professions educational leader, public health researcher and GP with a focus on HIV medicine. He commenced as Professor and Dean of the School of Medicine at Deakin University in June 2020.
Key contacts
Professor Gary Rogers, Dean of School, School of Medicine
Professor Alex Gentle, Deputy Head of School
Sarah Tomlinson, School Manager
Associate Professor Nicole Mercer, Associate Head of School (Indigenous Strategy)
Associate Professor Janet McLeod, Associate Head of School (Learning & Teaching)
Professor John Stambas, Associate Head of School (Research)
Professor Vin Versace, Director of Deakin Rural Health
Alfred Deakin Professor Michael Berk, Director of IMPACT
Associate Professor Tim Walker, Director of the Damion Drapac Centre
Associate Professor Lara Fuller, Director of Rural Medical Education and Director of Rural Community Clinical School
Associate Professor Cameron Shaw, Director of Regional and Urban Medical Education and Director of Rural Community Clinical School
Lisha Jerome, Executive Assistant
Course directors
Richard Mansfield, Medical Imaging Course Director
Professor James Armitage, Optometry Course Director
Dr Karen D’Souza, MD Course Director
Our people
Agricultural health
Jacquie Cotton, Lecturer in Rural Health
Alison Kennedy, Director, National Centre for Farmer Health
Biomedicine
Jeffrey Craig, Professor in Epigenetics and Cell Biology
Amardeep Dhillon, Associate Professor in Biomedical Sciences
Wei Duan, Alfred Deakin Professor
Roey Elnathan, Senior Lecturer, Biomedicine
Liza Raymond, Teaching Scholar, Medical Biotechnology, Infection and Immunity
Rasika Samarasinghe, Lecturer
Sarah Shigdar, Associate Professor, Medical Science
Craig Smith, Senior Lecturer, Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Garth Stephenson, Lecturer in Medical Biotechnology, Infection and Immunity
Richard Williams, Associate Professor
Centre for Organisational Change in Person-Centred Healthcare (OCPH)
Meg Chiswell, Deputy Director, OCPH
Peter Martin, Professor of Communication and End of Life Care
MBA healthcare management
Imran Muhammad, Lecturer
Sandeep Reddy, Director, MBA (Healthcare Management)
Margaret Way, Clinical Governance Director
Medical Imaging
Abubakar Abubakar, Lecturer, Medical Imaging Practice and Clinical Learning
Saba Ansari, Senior Lecturer in Diagnostic Imaging - Clinical Studies and Clinical Practice
James Bainbridge, Lecturer, Medical Imaging and Clinical Practice
Philip Brough, Senior Lecturer in Diagnostic Imaging - Ultrasound Specialisation
Richard Mansfield, Medical Imaging Course Director
Gail Powe, Lecturer
Matthew Retallack, Associate Lecturer, Foundation Principles of Medical Imaging
Peter Riley, Senior Lecturer, Diagnostic Imaging and Medical Physics
Jodie Ringin, Senior, Lecturer In Diagnostic Imaging - Clinical Studies and Clinical Practice
Gregory Van Egmond, Lecturer in Foundation Principles of Medical Imaging
Medicine
Kathryn Aston-Mourney, Senior Lecturer in Human Biology
Eugene Athan, Professor, Infectious Diseases
Tim Baker, Director Centre Rural Emergency Medicine
Debbie Baldi, Senior Lecturer, Medical Science and Clinical Practice
Jessica Beattie, Lecturer in Rural General Practice (Program Development and Support)
Colin Bell, Professor of Public Health
Nigel Bellears, Clinical Skills Instructor
Kellie Britt, Lecturer in Simulation and Clinical Skills
Leanne Britton, Lecturer, Clinical Skills
Tamara Browne, Senior Lecturer, Health Ethics, Law And Professional Development
Lisa Calafiore, Clinical Skills Instructor
Neil Coffee, Associate Professor, Health Geography
Penny Cotton, Medical Educator
Jacinta Crawley, Associate Lecturer, Anatomy
Brendan Condon, Deputy Director of Clinical Studies & Senior Lecturer, Medical Education
Alex Dawe, Clinical Skills Lead
Timothy Deane-Freeman, Lecturer, Health Ethics and Professionalism
Helen Doyle, Lecturer in Clinical Skills
Karen D'Souza, MD Course Director
Jane Duffy, Senior Lecturer in Health Ethics, Law and Professionalism
Tahnee Dunlop, Deputy Director, Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine
Nicole Farrell, Senior Lecturer, Academic General Practice
Cynthia Forlini, Senior Lecturer
Marguerite Fulton, Deputy Director, Geelong Clinical School
Sue Garner, Clinical School Director and Clinical Skills Senior Lecturer
Duminda Gunawardane, Regional Academic Coordinator
Stephen Giggins, Clinical Skills Educator
Matt Hall, Clinical Skills Educator
Vanessa Hartnell, Lecturer, Clinical Skills
Sarah Hosking, Lecturer In Public Health Medicine
Estelle Houlihan, Clinical Skills Educator
Mark Johnson, Deputy Director, Rural Community Clinical School
Diana Joseph, Clinical Skills Instructor
Greg Kowalski, Senior Lecturer
Eldon Lyon, Senior Lecturer, Rural Medical Education General Practice
Malik Quasir Mahmood, Lecturer in Pathology
Thomas Majer, Senior Lecturer, Medical Education
Dominique Martin, Associate Professor of Health Ethics and Professionalism
Erik Martin, Lecturer in Public Health
Kate McCloskey, Medical Director of Simulation Senior Lecturer
Bryony McNeill, Senior Lecturer, Medical Science
Rebekah McWhirter, Senior Lecturer in Health Ethics Law and Professionalism
Amy McWilliam, Lecturer, Clinical Learning
Cailin Mellberg, Teaching Scholar, Anatomy
Barry Morphett, Director of Clinical Studies and Director of Western Victoria Regional Training Hub
Heather Morrison, Teaching Scholar, Pathology
Katina Mullett, Lecturer, Indigenous Health
Kate Murphy, Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
Carl Murphy, Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
Shobhana Nambiar E K, Senior Lecturer, Clinical Medicine
Neil Orford, Associate Professor in Intensive Care Medicine
Anita Phillips, Academic Support Program Lead
Jodi Phillips, Lecturer in Indigenous Health
Mike Pickavance, Senior Lecturer
Pieter Pretorius, Regional Academic Coordinator, Grampians
Vivienne Ramsbottom, Senior Lecturer, Medical Education
Leni Rivera, Senior Lecturer
Aidan Roberts, Teaching Scholar
Danielle Robinson, Regional Academic Coordinator
Gemma Rossiter, Clinical Skills Instructor
Pam Rufus-Membere, Lecturer in Public Health Medicine
Jacqueline Savard, Senior Lecturer, Health Ethics, Law and Professionalism
Elyse Stevens, Senior Lecturer, Clinical Medicine
Kate Stotskaia, Senior Lecturer
Monica Tembo, Associate Lecturer
Jessy Vibin, Lecturer
Alex Wakeley, Associate Lecturer, Indigenous Health
Deborah Whitley, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Studies (Pathology)
Mark Yates, Associate Professor in Aged Care, Rehabilitation & Palliative Care
Optometry
Larry Abel, Associate Professor, Visual Function
Lucy Ainge, Lecturer
James Armitage, Optometry Course Director
Serap Azizoglu, Lecturer, Optometric Clinical Skills and Head, Dispensing Program
Simon Backhouse, Senior Lecturer in Vision Science
Madeline Baker, Associate Lecturer
Emily Bear, Lecturer
Dipesh Bhattarai, Lecturer, Optometry and Vision Science
Luke Chong, Lecturer in Optometry and Vision Science
Heather Connor, Head of Optometric Clinical Placements
Dilani Dewage Dona, Lecturer in Optometric Clinical Skills
Amanda Douglass, Lecturer in Optometry and Vision Science
Colin Gafan, Lecturer
Moneisha Gokhale, Lecturer in Optometric Clinical Skills
Kerryn Hart, Lecturer, Optometry
Carol Hinch, Teaching Scholar (Optometry)
Nick Hockley, Lecturer in Optometric Clinical Skills
Alexandra Jaworski, Head of Optometric Clinical Skills
Christopher Law, Teaching Scholar (Optometry)
Alissa Maillet, Lecturer in Optometry and Vision Science
Menaka Malavita Mohottalalage, Lecturer
Steven Maskell, Officer for Optometric Business Partnerships and Education
Ereeny Mikhail, Lecturer In Optometry
Linda Robinson, Head of Assessment, Clinical Optometry
Davut Ulusoy, Lecturer
Natalie Watt, Lecturer, Optometry
Hayley Way, Lecturer, Optometry
Ryan Wood-Bradley, Lecturer in Vision Science
Paramedicine
Kate Kloot, Senior Lecturer, Advanced Clinical Practice
Surgery
Glenn Guest, Epworth Geelong Chair in Surgery
Sonal Nagra, Senior Lecturer in Rural General Surgery
Richard Page, Professor St John of God and Barwon Health, Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery
Douglas Stupart, Associate Professor of Surgery
David Watters, Alfred Deakin Professor and Chair in Surgery
Affiliate academics
Deakin confers affiliate academic titles on externally-employed health professionals who contribute to Faculty of Health teaching and research outcomes. A number of affiliate academics support the School of Medicine through teaching, curriculum development, clinical supervision and research collaboration.
Research
Hajara Abdus Samad, Dean's Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Jessie Adams, Associate Research Fellow
Laura Alston, Research Fellow
Kara Anderson, Associate Research Fellow
Melanie Ashton, Associate Research Fellow, CADET
Debbie Ashtree, Associate Research Fellow
Genevieve Baratiny, Research Fellow, NCFH
Alyssa Barry, Associate Professor, Systems Epidemiology of Infection
Faiza Basheer, Associate Research Fellow, Cell Analysis
Hannah Beks, Research Fellow
Lesley Berk, Research Fellow, Digital Interventions
Michael Berk, Alfred Deakin Professor and Director of IMPACT
Amelia Betson, Research Fellow
Marley Binder, Associate Research Fellow
Carly Botheras, Associate Research Fellow
Marita Bryan, Associate Research Fellow
Jenny Bryce, Research Officer, Chromic
Suzie Clayden, Associate Research Fellow
Timothy Connor, Research Officer
Darcie Cooper, Associate Research Fellow (Infectious Diseases)
Natalie Counihan, Research Fellow
Sarah Croce, Associate Research Fellow
Tamsyn Crowley, Associate Professor in Medical Bioinformatics
Jessica Davis, Research Fellow, Clinical Trial Coordinator
Samantha Dawson, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Olivia Dean, Associate Professor (Research)
Amber Degelia, Clinical Trial Coordinator, MAGNET
Tania De Koning-Ward, Professor
Poshmaal Dhar, Dean's Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Kunal Dhiman, Associate Research Fellow, Neurobiology
Daniel Drumm, Associate Research Fellow, Rural Health
Amity Dunstan, Associate Research Fellow
Tesfaye Feyissa, Executive Dean Health Research Fellow
Rachel Fiddes, Research Fellow, Clinical Trial Coordinator
Sarah Gauci, Associate Research Fellow, Cardiac Prevention
Stephen Gill, Senior Research Fellow
Veer Gupta, Associate Professor in Neurobiology
Catherine Hansen, Data Manager
Chris Healey, Research Fellow
Andrea Hernan, Deans Research Postdoctoral Fellow
Damian Hernandez de Santiago, Research Fellow
Emma Hobbs, Research Fellow
Meghan Hockey, Associate Research Fellow
Natalie Hyde, Dean’s Research Postdoctoral Fellow
Felice Jacka, Alfred Deakin Professor
Bianca Kavanagh, Research Fellow Brophy, Research and Evaluation Lead
Kara Kew, Research Fellow
Jee Hyun Kim, Associate Professor, Molecular Psychiatry
Malia Lardelli, Research Assistant
Clifford Liongue, Lecturer, Medical Research
Zoe Liu, Associate Research Fellow, Biomarkers
Mojtaba Lotfaliany Abrand Abadi, Research Fellow
Joanna Macdonald, Associate Research Fellow
Sophie Mahoney, Associate Research Fellow, Dietitian
Mary Malakellis, Research Fellow Grade 2
Sajida Malik, Associate Research Fellow
Wolf Marx, Senior Research Fellow
Kat Matthews, Associate Research Fellow
Ivan Matovich, Research Assistant
Catherine Mazza, Associate Research Fellow, Psychologist
Kirsty McCann, Associate Research Fellow, Genomic Epidemiology
Lauren McDonald, Associate Research Fellow (Ehealth Communications)
Sean McGee, Professor, Medical Biology
Amelia McGuinness, Associate Research Fellow, Trial Coordinator
Kevin Mc Namara, Deputy Director Associate Professor
Marko Milicevic, Research Assistant
Fiona Mitchell, Associate Research Fellow, Rural Health
Joyanta Modak, Research Fellow
Jenny Murfield, Research Fellow
Meg Murray, Associate Research Fellow
Josie O’Donohue, Associate Research Fellow (eHealth Communications)
Martin O'Hely, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biostatistics/Bioinformatics
Adrienne O'Neil, Professor
Bruna Panizzutti Parry, Research Fellow, Stem Cells
Johnny Park, Associate Research Fellow
Julie Pasco, Professor
Megan Pilon, Associate Research Fellow
Shae Quirk, Research Fellow
Briana Randall, Research Officer
Erica Reeve, Research Fellow, Implementation and Knowledge Exchange
Tetyana Rocks, Senior Research Fellow
Christine Roder, Associate Research Fellow, Viral Hepatitis
Sajal Kumar Saha, Executive Dean Health Research Fellow
Dean Saunders, Associate Research Fellow, Exercise Physiologist
Kate Schlicht, Senior Research Fellow
Luba Sominsky, Paediatric Research Fellow
John Stambas, Professor of Viral Immunology
Heidi Staudacher, Senior Research Fellow
Amanda Stuart, Research Fellow
Vinod Sundaramoorthy, Research Fellow, Viral Neuropathogenesis
Courtney Swinton, Research Officer, MRU
Sharm Thuraisingam, Research Fellow
Alyna Turner, Senior Lecturer
Megan Turner, Research Fellow (Psychologist)
Sharon Varela, Senior Research Fellow
Vincent Versace, Director Deakin Rural Health
Peter Vuillermin, Chair in Medicine and Director of Research
Ken Walder, Chair in Metabolic Diseases
Adam Walker, Research Fellow, Trisno Family
Alister Ward, Professor Molecular Medicine
Nikita Wheaton, Associate Research Fellow
Lana Williams, Associate Professor
Sarah Wood, Associate Research Fellow
Yen Ting Wong, Associate Research Fellow
Bing-Ru Wu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Viral Immunology
Claire Young, Associate Research Fellow, eHealth & mHealth
Alison Yung, Professor (Clinical Research)
Nemanja Zivanov, Associate Research Fellow
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