Research Opportunities

Bond University Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine is seeking expressions of interest for higher degree candidates for the PhD projects listed below.

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Research Field/Project	Supervisor	Contact	Email
Evidence-Based Practice
Exploring new ways of communicating information about benefits and harms of antibiotics for acute upper respiratory tract infections to parents	Dr Tammy Hoffman	Dr Tammy Hoffman	thoffman@bond.edu.au
Synthesising evidence to develop guidance material for complex interventions	Dr Tammy Hoffman	Dr Tammy Hoffman	thoffman@bond.edu.au
How many diseases will a doctor need to learn about in a clinical lifetime	Professor Paul Glasziou	Professor Paul Glasziou	pglaszio@bond.edu.au
The history of dissemination of methodological innovations	Professor Paul Glasziou	Professor Paul Glasziou	pglaszio@bond.edu.au
Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy: Solving the application puzzle	Professor Paul Glasziou	Professor Paul Glasziou	pglaszio@bond.edu.au
Exploring new ways of communicating about benefits and harms of antibiotics for acute upper respiratory tract infections to parents	Professor Chris Del Mar	Dr Tammy Hoffman	cdelmar@bond.edu.au thoffman@bond.edu.au
What is the gain from non-traditional risk factors for predicting the risk of cardiovascular disease?	Professor Jenny Doust	Professor Jenny Doust	jdoust@bond.edu.au
Exercise Science
Can resistance training reduce disability and improve upper limb function and quality of life in Essential Tremor patients	Dr Justin Keogh	Dr Justin Keogh	jkeogh@bond.edu.au
Health Professions Education
A critical examination of health professional learning and teaching practices in Australian Universities: Dietetics, medical radiation therapy and optometry as case studies	Professor Roger Hughes	Professor Roger Hughes	rohughes@bond.edu.au
Benefits of and barriers to interprofessional teaching and training in medical education	Dr Patricia Johnson	Dr Patricia Johnson	pjohnson@bond.edu.au
The impact of compressed curricula in Health Sciences and Medicine: Staff and student perspectives	Professor Michelle McLean	Professor Richard Hays Dr Gary Hamlin	mimclean@bond.edu.au
Medical Laboratory Science
Developing a mathematical model of serum creatinine in health and disease	Dr Tony Badrick	Dr Tony Badrick	tbadrick@bond.edu.au
Development of a mathematical model to predict changes in serum cholesterol levels for patients on lipid lowering drugs	Dr Tony Badrick	Dr Tony Badrick	tbadrick@bond.edu.au
Development of a Statistical Process Quality Control Tool for Routine Clinical Biochemistry Analysers	Dr Tony Badrick	Dr Tony Badrick	tbadrick@bond.edu.au
Validation of data mining predictions for disease identification by prospective pathology testing	Dr Tony Badrick	Dr Tony Badrick	tbadrick@bond.edu.au
Nutrition
Pregnancy as a risk factor for middle-aged overweight and obesity amongst Australian women studies	Professor Roger Hughes	Professor Roger Hughes	rohughes@bond.edu.au
The development of a successful group based life style modification program for chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes studies	Professor Roger Hughes	Professor Roger Hughes	rohughes@bond.edu.au
Developing consensus on the strategy for prevention of obesity amongst the Australian population	Professor Roger Hughes	Professor Roger Hughes	rohughes@bond.edu.au
Population Health
An exploration of the determinants of breastfeeding survival amongst young mothers who successfully breastfeed for 6 months	Professor Roger Hughes	Professor Roger Hughes	rohughes@bond.edu.au
Chronic Disease
Bladder carcinoma in-situ and urothelium derived factors	Professor Gordon Wright	Professor Russ Chess Williams	rchesswi@bond.edu.au
Drug targets for the treatment of urinary and faecal incontinence	Professor Russ Chess Williams	Professor Russ Chess Williams	rchesswi@bond.edu.au
Genetic and Epigenetic Investigation for Biomarker Discovery in Multiple Sclerosis	Dr Lotti Tajouri	Dr Lotti Tajouri	ltajouri@bond.edu.au
Molecular modelling study of the interactions between uroplakins in urinary tract infections and cancer	Assistant Professor Anna Salinas	Professor Russ Chess Williams Assistant Professor Anna Salinas	rchesswi@bond.edu.au asalinas@bond.edu.au

Information for Prospective Students

These are only some of the research projects available in the Faculty and staff can be contacted directly to discuss other potential projects.
For more information about individual projects please contact the relevant supervisor.

For general enquiries and information on how to apply for enrolment please contact the research coordinatorl: hsmresearch@bond.edu.au

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