College of Medicine & Dentistry

Semagn Abate

Semagn Abate

Joseph Kamara

Joseph Kamara

Eric Kalo

Eric Kalo

Erin Waters

Erin Waters

Kannan Maharajan

Kannan Maharajan

Fahmida Begum Mina

Fahmida Begum Mina

Lynsey Brown

Lynsey Brown

Ali Isin

Ali Isin

Muideen Olaiya

Muideen Olaiya

Mila Grinblat

Mila Grinblat

Diagnostic Approaches to Mental Health - The Allostatic Load (Old ID 27306)
Donna Rudd
12 Jul 2021 - 31 Aug 2025
The goal of this project is to establish allostatic load index as a predictive tool in psychiatry. I will study the role allostatic load index, a measure of multisystem adaptation to changing demands and stress/trauma, in predicting the development of serious mental illness by analysing a UK longitudinal data set.
Accelerating clean meat fish production (Old ID 28945)
Craig McFarlane
01 Mar 2023 - 30 Jun 2023
Our aim is to build a new technology to mass-produce sustainable Clean Meat Seafood at low cost. This will enable us to: (i) feed the world’s population, (ii) prevent further exploitation of the world’s oceans and overfishing of endangered wild-caught species, (iii) to avoid the high environmental costs associated with aquaculture, and (iv) provide a sustainable and safe alternative of those species that cannot be successfully reared and grown in an aquaculture setting.
Integrated online platform for delivery of digital health services by a multi-disciplinary team of allied health professionals (Old ID 23626)
Lisa Simmons
10 Apr 2018 - 06 Apr 2019
This project aims to create an integrated online platform for multi-disciplinary allied health professionals to provide evidence-based digital health support and services to communities, organisations and clients, especially those in rural and remote communities, vulnerable groups and/or those who would otherwise not be able to access quality health services within Queensland, Australia and other countries. This project provides solutions to challenges associated with a sustainable design for service delivery compared to current models that involve significant funding in order to access these populations. This project has the potential to reach these geographically dispersed communities while reducing costs through decreased travel.
HOT NORTH - Pilot Project - Round 4 - Cooking smoke and indoor air pollution : Impaired immunity to Tuberculosis at Australian's northern border? (Old ID 25026)
Jeffrey Warner
01 Sep 2018 - 30 Jun 2020
Middle Fly region of PNG has very high rates of TB and pre-existing lung disease may play a significant role in the acquisition and development of TB disease. Our study will determine the burden and characteristics of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and investigate the resultant lung immune response defects in this community. In doing so we will build local capacity in lung function testing and laboratory analysis and optimise a pipeline of sample analysis of lung immune responses from PNG to JCU, Townsville. Such information will complement existing TB programmes in South Fly region of the Western Province.
Understanding First Peoples Lived Experience of Pharmaceutical Care when Transitioning between Hospital and Home
Karen Carlisle
01 Apr 2024 - 31 May 2027
Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation Grant, PhD Candidate
Strong community, strong health: Exploring opportunities for chronic disease prevention in the Torres Strait (Old ID 27539)
Rachel Quigley
01 Jun 2022 - 31 May 2026
Despite a decrease in mortality rates from chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease since 2006, they still represent significant risk to the health and wellbeing of Australia’s First Nations peoples. This project will partner with First Nations people living in the Torres Strait to support their chronic disease outcomes by: 1) co-developing diet and physical activity (PA) tools; and 2) mapping social and environmental impacts on health in each partner community. This project will provide essential information about dietary and PA practices of people living in the Torres Strait.
Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy for Prevention of Diabetic Foot Ulcer Recurrence: A Pilot Study. (Old ID 27555)
Haleagrahara Nagaraja
21 Dec 2021 - 31 Dec 2024
Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a common complication of diabetes with a recurrence of up to 40% within one year after initial healing. The common cause for recurrence of DFUs is impaired perfusion of lower extremities due to diabetes. This study aims to determine whether extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) can prevent the recurrence of previously healed DFUs since it has been shown that low-energy ESWT can improve microcirculation blood flow of ischemic limbs.
Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy for Prevention of Diabetic Foot Ulcer Recurrence: A Pilot Study. (Old ID 27555)
Venkat Vangaveti
21 Dec 2021 - 31 Dec 2024
Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a common complication of diabetes with a recurrence of up to 40% within one year after initial healing. The common cause for recurrence of DFUs is impaired perfusion of lower extremities due to diabetes. This study aims to determine whether extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) can prevent the recurrence of previously healed DFUs since it has been shown that low-energy ESWT can improve microcirculation blood flow of ischemic limbs.
The prevalence of urinary tract infection, non-specific symptoms and antibiotic treatment in nursing home residents in an Australian tropical setting. (Old ID 22337)
Ronny Gunnarsson
01 Jul 2015 - 30 Jun 2016
Despite numerous causes, a change in mental state of a nursing home resident is often attributed a urinary tract infection (UTI). This project aims to quantify the prevalence of treated UTI, its non-specific symptoms and factors leading to treatment, in nursing home residents in tropical Australia. There is a possibility that antibiotics are used far more often in the tropics compared to more temperate climates. This finding would emphasise the problem of antibiotic resistance in nursing homes in the tropics compared to other regions, which has the potential to stress the importance that these issues be addressed.
Piloting a continuous quality improvement framework to strengthen quality of care in Aboriginal residential aged care (Old ID 27413)
Rachel Quigley
02 Nov 2021 - 31 Dec 2024
This study responds to concerns raised in The Royal Commission report, 2021 that the Australian aged care system struggles to effectively manage people with complex care needs. Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) is a method designed to improve the capacity and readiness of health services/staff to meet pre-determined goals/standards, and the quality of treatment and care, and implement health interventions. This project aims to assess the suitability of the CQI model for improving the quality of care in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACF) by developing and implementing a CQI framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander RACF.

Elevated intra-abdominal pressure limits venous return during exercise in Varanus exanthematicus

Terrestrial locomotion does not constrain venous return in the American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis

Regenerating lizard tails: A new model for investigating lymphangiogenesis

  • 2003
  • Researchers:Suzy Munns

Exploring the development of an appropriate women's health service for Mt Isa City: report to the Queensland Nursing Council Research Committee

Association of osteoprotegerin with human abdominal aortic aneurysm progression

EST analysis of the cnidarian Acropora millepora reveals extensive gene loss and rapid sequence divergence in the model invertebrates

The evolutionary history of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia, Cnidaria) based on a mitochondrial and a nuclear marker: reticulation, incomplete lineage sorting, or morphological convergence?

A simple plan: cnidarians and the origins of developmental mechanisms

Patterns of coral-dinoflagellate associations in Acropora: significance of local availability and physiology of Symbiodinium strains and host-symbiont selectivity

Maintenance of ancestral complexity and non-metazoan genes in two basal cnidarians

Title: AMEE, Lyon, 2012
Reseracher: Jane Harte (Associate Dean, Students)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2012
End Date: 01 Jan 2012
Title: ASME, Edinburgh, 2011
Reseracher: Jane Harte (Associate Dean, Students)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2011
End Date: 01 Jan 2011
Title: Bachelor of Social Sciences (Hons - Anthropology), James Cook University
Reseracher: Kris McBain-Rigg (Senior Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2000
End Date: 01 Jan 2004
Title: Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation
Reseracher: Jane Harte (Associate Dean, Students)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2023
End Date: 01 Jan 2025
Title: PhD, James Cook University
Reseracher: Kris McBain-Rigg (Senior Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2007
End Date: 01 Jan 2013
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow, James Cook University
Reseracher: Kris McBain-Rigg (Senior Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2012
End Date: 01 Jan 2013
Title: PhD Candidate, James Cook University
Reseracher: Brittany Moller (Doctor of Philosophy (Health))
Start Date: 01 Jan 2023
Title: Bachelor of Science (honours - first class), University of Otago
Reseracher: Brittany Moller (Doctor of Philosophy (Health))
Start Date: 01 Jan 2021
End Date: 01 Jan 2021
Title: Bachelor of Science, University of Otago
Reseracher: Brittany Moller (Doctor of Philosophy (Health))
Start Date: 01 Jan 2018
End Date: 01 Jan 2020
Title: The Sixth International - Safety Media Awards - Bangkok Thailand 2018 - Gold - Print Media Category for 'Respect the River' - with Amy Peden, JCU PhD Student and RLSSA; Professor Peter Leggat JCU; and Julie Power, Journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald.
Reseracher: Richard Franklin (Head, Public Health and Tropical Medicine)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2018