Health Informatics The University of Adelaide Australia
 




Health Informatics Unit
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 Australia
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+61 8 8274 3713
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+61 8 8271 9158




Scott Clark

Qualifications

Flinders University :

BSc. Psychology, Hons. Medical Science

Current Studies

Adelaide University :

MBBS. (6 th year) - completion end 2004

PhD. candidate Health Informatics - completion end 2003

Research Interests

Design of decision support systems for health care processes. Specific areas include support for decisions in respiratory medicine utilising laboratory, radiology and microbiology test results.

The development of risk management systems, via the integration of existing hospital data sources.

The application and teaching of evidence-based medicine

Publications & Presentations

Clark, S., Pradhan, M., Faunt, J. and Swart, R., A Comparison Of A Paper-Based Clinical Guideline And A Decision Support System For The Management of Community Acquired Pneumonia. Health Informatics Conference 2000; 2000 September; Adelaide .

Clark, S., Costa, M., Tonini, M. Brookes, S. Purinergic Transmission is Involved in a Descending Excitatory Reflex of the Guinea Pig Small Intestine. Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society, Volume 7, 1996.

Awards & Achievements

Shell Australia Prize for Third Year Psychology

Flinders University 1994

Chancellor's Letters of Commendation

Flinders University 1992, 93, 94

Summer Scholarships

Flinders University Department of Biochemistry

  • 1992 Establishment of a protocol for the transfer of metabolic intermediates into hepatocytes via electroporation
  • 1993 Investigation of the metabolism of alcohol by hepatocytes (work presented at 1995 Biochemical Society of Australia conference)

Flinders University Centre for Neuroscience

  • 1995 Pharmacological Investigation of Gastro-intestinal Reflexes - identified role of purinergic neurotransmission in a descending excitatory reflex in the guinea pig small intestine

Adelaide University Department of Medicine/Medical Informatics

  • 1997 Use of concept mapping in curriculum development.

Positions

Adelaide University Health Informatics Unit

  • 2000-02 Research and Teaching Assistant

Committees

Student Representative

1995 Flinders University Medical Honours program

1996 Adelaide University MBBS first year

1997-98 Adelaide University - Information Technology (Faculty of Health Sciences)

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