Social media for health and HISA Victoria AGM

Panel of University of Melbourne researchers presenting on their current research into social media for healthcare.

Program
Social media for health – what do you need to know? Dr Kathleen Gray
Social media in chronic disease management Mark Merolli
Social media for first episode psychosis Greg Wadley
Social media for smoking cessation Greg Wadley and Wally Smith
Social media for clinical research crowdsourcing Kayla Heffernan
Social media for health provider performance reporting Dr Marie Bismark and Jen Morris
Q&A
HISA Vic AGM

AGM
Victoria has a growing community of e-health and health informatics proponents, leaders and experts. Our branch of HISA continues to attract a diverse and influential audience across the spectrum of health. HISA Vic members will be invited to participate in the HISA Vic AGM. We hope all HISA members in Victoria will be able to take part following the presentations. 

Presenters

Dr Marie Bismark Head, Law and Public Health Group, School of Global and Population Health, University of Melbourne School of Global

Dr Marie Bismark is a public health physician and health lawyer, who leads the Law and Public Health Group at the University of Melbourne School of Global and Population Health. Her research focuses on the role of patient voice in improving the quality and safety of healthcare. Marie has previously worked as a doctor in a number of New Zealand hospitals, served as a legal adviser to the Health and Disability Commissioner, been a solicitor with a leading New Zealand law firm, and completed a Harkness Fellowship in Healthcare Policy at Harvard University. In addition to her academic role, Marie serves as a non-executive director on the boards of a number of health sector companies. She has published widely on no-fault compensation, patient safety and healthcare complaints resolution.

Dr Kathleen Gray Senior Research Fellow, Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre, The University of Melbourne

Dr Kathleen Gray's research focuses on public participation in health through new technologies; professional education for e-health; health sector change arising from new technologies; and e-learning in the health professions. She coordinates Melbourne University's Masters degree in Healthcare IT. She is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Informaticians and active in HISA, Health Libraries Australia and the Victorian E-Health Network.

Kayla Heffernan UX Designer

Kayla is a UX designer, with an interest in the intersection of health and technology. Kayla has a Bachelor of Business Information Systems from Monash University and returned to academia in 2012 to pursue a Master of Information Systems at The University of Melbourne. Her Masters research thesis focuses on usability and user experience of e-health, working with the Young Female Health Initiative (YFHI). Led by the Royal Women’s Hospital in partnership with The University of Melbourne, the YFHI is a series of research projects that aim to improve the health of young women in Australia. When she’s not busy at work, or frantically finalising her thesis, she can be found guest lecturing around Melbourne, public speaking at various events or tweeting on Twitter.

Mark Merolli PhD Candidate, Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre, The University of Melbourne 

Mark Merolli is a PhD Candidate from the Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre (HaBIC) at the University of Melbourne. His PhD research focuses on how social media research and practice can be optimised in the effective management of chronic disease. His interests stem from both his passion for technology and clinical patient management, in particular patient outcomes (Mark is a practicing physiotherapist). His work is shaped by the challenge to establish a sound evidence base for social media use in chronic disease management. This starts with the need to define criteria and methods to generate and evaluate evidence. A key objective of his is to develop a framework for research and practice that addresses this challenge.


Dr Greg Wadley Research Fellow, Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne. 

Dr Greg Wadley is a Research Fellow in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. He works to design, build and evaluate technological interventions for health and wellbeing, with current projects targeting youth mental health, smoking cessation, and social dislocation among hospitalized children.