Translating great research into better patient outcomes
A/Prof Gaetano Gargiulo (School of Engineering, Design and Built Environments) has extensive experience in the design, development, test, and commercialization of medical devices (bio-potentials recording in particular). Research interests include Brain/Human machine interfaces, morphic sensor technology for truly wearable diagnostics and Biomedical signal processing.
Associate Professor Genevieve Steiner is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and Director of Research at the NICM Health Research Institute where she leads the NICM Neurocognition and HEADBOX Labs. Her cognitive neuroscience research spans the early detection, prevention, and treatment of memory and thinking problems in older people with the aim of reducing dementia risk and improving quality of life.
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Genevieve is a Senior Lecturer in the Physiotherapy Program at the University of Western Sydney and a paediatric physiotherapist. Her current research endeavours are focused upon physical activity behaviour in children (with and without disability), outcomes in infants born preterm and novel approach to assessment and training of balance skills in children.
Dr. George Turner’s research is focused on reducing health disparities by advancing sexual health equity in areas such as sexual justice, LGBTQIA2S issues, disability, and sexuality education. As a social worker, George has a demonstrated clinical expertise as a psychotherapist with over fifteen years in private practice specialising in sex therapy.
Gerald Muench is a Professor of Pharmacology in the School of Medicine. His major project focus is on Alzheimer's disease with a special emphasis on carbonyl stress in age-related and neurodegenerative processes, and also looking at brain inflammation as a major progression factor in Alzheimer's disease, now widely accepted.
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Dr Ghufran Alhassani is an associate lecturer in the School of Health Sciences. Ghufran’s research interests are in acute and chronic pain, chronic disease, non-invasive brain stimulation, neuroplasticity. She is also interested in disease prevention and management in culturally and linguistically diverse populations, with ongoing project collaborations in cancer, food security, and dementia.
Dr Gihane Endrawes is a lecturer at Western Sydney University with more than 20 years teaching and mental health experience. She has experience in research supervision, leading research teams, obtaining research grants, developed and reviewed curriculum, coordinating under-graduate and post-graduate subjects for many years.
Gill is a lecturer in the school of Nursing and Midwifery at Western Sydney University. She has worked as a mental health nurse for 20 years, with experiences in forensic, in-patient, community and emergency mental health services. Her current research programme focuses on mental illness; loss and recovery.
Professor Golo Ahlenstiel is the Chair of Medicine at Blacktown Clinical School, Western Sydney University and Gastroenterologist & Hepatologist at Blacktown Hospital, Sydney.
Dr Haider Mannan is a Senior Lecturer in biostatistics at the Translational Health Research Institute and the School of Medicine, Western Sydney University. He has three roles-research, teaching and providing statistical consulting service to staffs and students.