Dr Dawson is a Senior Lecturer at the Caulfield School of Information Technology, Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University and has over 20 years experience in information technology. She has worked as a programmer, systems analyst, and as an academic. Dr Dawson's recent research has been in the area of the application of mobile and wireless technologies in healthcare.

Contact: Dr Linda Dawson
Home Page: www.sims.monash.edu.au/staff/ldawson/index.html

Dr Plummer is a Lecturer at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University and a registered nurse and midwife at Southern Health. Her research interests for the past 13 years have been in the areas of nursing costs, nursing workload, nursing resource allocation and associated information systems.

Contact: Dr Virginia Plummer
Home Page: www.med.monash.edu.au/nursing/staff/vplummer.html

Associate Professor Fisher is Deputy Director of Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics (COSI) at the Caulfield School of Information Technology, Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. Her research activities over the last ten years or so have all in various ways explored the question of how information systems can better meet the needs of their users.

Contact: Associate Professor Julie Fisher
Home Page: www.sims.monash.edu.au/staff/jfisher/

Dr Indrawan is Associate Head of School and Senior Lecturer at the Caulfield School of Information Technology, Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. Her interests include pervasive computing, context aware computing, information retrieval and XML data management. She is also a member of the Centre for Distributed Systems and Software Engineering (DSSE) under the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University.

Contact: Dr Maria Indrawan
Home Page: www.csse.monash.edu.au/~maria/

Dr Ling is a Senior Lecturer at the Caulfield School of Information Technology, Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. His interests include software engineering, pervasive computing and context-aware systems. He is also a member of the Centre for Distributed Systems and Software Engineering (DSSE) under the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University.

Contact: Dr Sea (Chris) Ling
Home Page: www.csse.monash.edu.au/~sling/

Dr Weeding is a Research Fellow and early career researcher (ECR) at the Caulfield School of Information Techology, Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. He successfully completed his PhD (under the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University) in May 2007 (thesis: Effects of Primary Health Care on the Utilisation of Metropolitan Hospital Emergency Departments). His main interest is health informatics, medical geography, project management and mobile digital technologies.

Contact: Dr Stephen Weeding
Home Page: infotech.monash.edu.au/about/staff/Stephen-Weeding

Ms Fernando is the Academic Convenor BMedSc with the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University. She is also a PhD candidate under the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. Chair of the Health Sub-Committee with the Australian Privacy Foundation, her research concerns clinical health informatics, bioinformatic data exchange standards and information security. She has developed a particular emphasis on e-health tools and their contribution to workflow methodologies in the health sector.

Contact: Ms Juanita Fernando
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Dr Howard is National Manager, Community & Health at NEC Business Solutions Pty Ltd. Dr Howard provides telecommunications and network engineering advice to the group.

Contact: Dr Andrew Howard

 

Mr Ribbons is an experienced clinical informatician and tertiary educator specialising in health informatics. He is currently employed as the Manager of Clinical Informatics, Peninsula Health in Melbourne where he has managed an enterprise-wide implementation and evaluation of a web-based clinical information system, incorporating a wireless point of care network.

Contact: Mr Bob Ribbons

Mrs Harlem is the Quality and Clinical Pathway Coordinator for Peninsula Health. Her role covers research, development, review, implementation, maintenance, compliance and the ongoing variance analysis of Clinical Pathways. Other Quality activities include consumer feedback surveys and the 2008 Quality of Care Report. Her main focus is improving quality and safety in care delivery.

Contact: Mrs Terri Harlem

Ms Wallace is Manager of Joint Programs Directorate and is located at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton.  She advises on developments with patient administration systems, devices and applications for nurses and other medical staff.

Contact: Ms Lyn Wallace

Mr Ramsay is Stroke Liaison Manager of the Neurosciences Ward, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton. He assesses the acceptance of the new devices and applications by nursing and medical staff.

Contact: Mr David Ramsay

Ms McIntosh is Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) of 54 South
Neuroscience Specialty Ward, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton. She provides a wealth of nursing and administrative experience from her current role as NUM and previous positions as Assistant NUM and Ward Educator.

Contact: Ms Kellie McIntosh