Sue Kirby - Curriculum Vitae

Sue Kirby - Curriculum vitae

Work AddressDepartment of Rural Health

Universityof Sydney

Corrindah Court, Morgan Street

Broken Hill NSW Australia 2880

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AcademicQualifications

2012PhDCentre for Primary Health Care & Equity UNSW

“Exploration of the reasons for frequent readmissions in patients with chronic disease”.

1978/79World Health Travelling Scholarship

MSc Toxicology (course work and thesis) University of Surrey UK. Thesis entitled "Toxicity Studies in Ethoxyquin" (Top of year).

1965 to 1968MScZoology University of Melbourne research thesis "A Comparative Study of the Innervation of the Cardiovascular Systems" awarded with Honours.

1963/4National Heart Foundation Scholarship to studies in the autonomic innervation of cardiovascular systems in lower vertebrates.

1962 BSc (Zoology) University of Melbourne Victoria Australia

Employment

2011December 2011 commenced employment as Senior Research Fellow University Department of Rural Health Broken Hill –Centre for Research Excellence in Rural and Remote Primary Health Care: role research capacity building for remote clinicians; PhD student co-supervision; research capacity building within the UDRH; other local health service research: admissions and discharge procedures review Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Service Far West Local Health District; evaluation of the Royal Flying Doctor Service nurse led Diabetes program; review of education, training and support for primary health care professionals in rural and remote settings and reducing lead exposure in Broken Hill children initiatives.

2011 - 2012COPD Study Fairfield Hospital GP Unit (CPHCE) – Research Assistant data collection and analysis.

2011Manager Women’s Health Centre Warilla (Illawarra) – management, reviewing and restructuring the organisation.

2009 - 2010Leadership Development Program for Primary & Community Health Services NSW: role curriculum development, teaching, capacity building and leadership/management project support. Funded by participating Area Health Services in NSW and the NSW Department of Health. Evaluation report presented at PHCRIS Conference Brisbane 2011.

2007Enrolled PhD Centre for Primary Health Care & Equity, University of New South Wales

2006Research Associate PHC Research Development Program Centre for Primary HealthCare & Equity UNSW: Teamwork and Teamlink projects data collection and analysis.

Postgraduate teaching (MPH) UNSW in health service management.

Health Management Improvement Program Solomon Islands with the School Public Health & Community Medicine UNSW; teaching, management capacity development and support.

Evaluation of post hospitalisation follow up of patients with disabilities, NSW Health with Julie McDonald & Associates; evaluation and report.

Review of Primary Health Care Policy Initiatives in Canada with Centre for Primary Health Care & Equity NSW.

Master of Public Health postgraduate teaching Hong Kong for UNSW School Public Health & Community Medicine external students.

2005General Manager Shellharbour Hospital South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service – duties involved general management of 150 bed regional hospital in NSW with emergency, surgical, general medical, special care, maternity, diagnostic and acute mental health services. During my time I introduced an incident reporting system, reviewed and strengthened the relationship between the general hospital and the mental health beds and prepared for hospital accreditation. A major part of the general manager duties was strategic planning to redefine hospital services to reflect changing community needs and fit with the role of the network of hospitals in the area.

2003Acting Deputy CEO Illawarra Area Health Service. Duties included oversight, management and strategic policy development of a major referral hospital (500 beds) and the full range of services from inpatient through community health services to public health and preventative health services. This role was a strategic planning role to steer the area health service to meet government policy objectives and provide services to meet community needs. At this time there were some 4,500 staff including health professionals, technical and administrative staff and managers.

2002General Manager Albury Base Hospital Greater Murray Area Health Service. Duties general management of 150 bed regional rural hospital with a major emergency department, surgical, medical, diagnostic and mental health services. During this time there were serious bush fires in the area which necessitated disaster planning in case of an influx of smoke inhalation admissions.

1994General Manager Community Health Illawarra Area Health Service and conjoint appointment Associate Professor Primary Health Care University of Wollongong. Community Health general management duties included oversight and strategic development of the full range of services from general community health nursing, counselling, to drug and alcohol and sexual assault services. There were approximately 500 staff comprised of health professionals and administrative and technical staff as well as managers. The budget was $25 million. During this time planning for the introduction of computerized information system for community health and the development of reporting systems for management performance indicators were undertaken. Quality Award for outstanding performance was achieved. Strategic planning included building the management team and ensuring they were supported and developed to take on their management roles and inbuilding the relationship between community public health services and general practice to improve continuity of care for shared patients.

1992Associate Professor/Director National Reference Centre for Continuing Education in Primary Health Care University of Wollongong. Duties included the strategic planning for the primary health care works force and facilitation of support for training and development of primary health care professionals.

1989Executive Director Community Health ACT Health

1982Senior management roles in various Australian government departments, Australian Public Service Board and Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs

1981Executive Development Scheme (internal senior management development program) Australian Public Service

1975Drug Evaluator Australian Department of Health

Recent Publications

S. E. Kirby, M. Mutimbe, S. Vagholkar, J. Bunker, S. M. Dennis, S.-T. Liaw, How integrated are services for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? Perceptions of patients and health care providers, Australian Journal of Primary Health 2013,

Kirby S, Dennis S, Bazeley P, Harris MF,Why older patients of lower clinical urgency choose to attend the Emergency Department. Intern Med J. 2013 Feb;43(2):218. http;//dx.doi: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2012.02952.x PMID: 23402491

Gough, N, Lesjak, M, Kirby, S, Broken Hill Aboriginal Working Party and Lyle, D, The impact of lead and a change in Lead Guidelines for Broken Hill, 2012 report.

Kirby, S and Nelder, K, Review of admissions and discharge processes Mental Health, Drug & Alcohol Far West Local Health District, report 2012.

Sue E Kirby, Sarah M Dennis, Upali W Jayasinghe, Mark F Harris, Frequent emergency attenders: is there a better way? Australian Health Review, 2012,

Sue E Kirby, Sarah M Dennis, Upali W Jayasinghe, Mark F Harris,Frequent emergency attenders: is there a better way? Australian Health Review, 36(3) 336-341

Sue E Kirby, Sarah M Dennis, Pat Bazeley, Mark F Harris, Activating patients with chronic disease for self-management: comparison of self-managing patients with those managing by frequent readmissions to hospital, Australian Journal of Primary Health, 2012,

Sue E Kirby, Sarah M Dennis, Pat Bazeley, Mark F Harris, What Distinguished Clinicians Who Better Support Patients For Chronic Disease Self-Management? Australian Journal of Primary Health, 2012: 18 p. 220-227

Sue E Kirby, Sarah M Dennis, Upali W Jayasinghe, Mark F HarrisPatient related factors in frequent readmissions: the influence of condition, access to services and patient choice
BMC Health Services Research 2010, 10:216 (21July2010)rated highly accessed

Kirby, SE et al., Sharing or shuffling — realities of chronic disease care in general practice. Medical Journal of Australia, 2008. 189(2): p. 77.

Recent Conference presentations

Rural Health Congress Wagga Wagga 2012

David Perkins & Sue Kirby,Research Writing Workshop

Sue Kirby & David Perkins, Review of Education Training and Supervision Models in Rural and Remote Primary Health Care, poster session.

PHCRIS Conferences

2011, Poster sessions, Education and training
Leadership for primary health care: building the capacity of primary and community health managers and clinical leaders
Gawaine Powell Davies, Julie McDonald, Sue Kirby, Karen Edwards, Tricia Linehan

2011, Poster sessions, Self-management
Making every encounter count: improving self-management uptake
Sue Kirby, Sarah Dennis, Mark Harris

2009, Paper sessions, Self management
Supporting patients to manage chronic disease: are patient perceptions the key?
Sue Kirby, Sarah Dennis, Mark Harris

2008, Poster sessions, Managing Chronic Disease
Patient characteristics which Contribute to Frequent Readmissions.
Sue Kirby, Sarah Dennis, Mark Harris

2007, Paper sessions, Partnerships and collaborations
Working relationships: the process of sharing care between GPs, allied health practitioners, and medical specialists in chronic disease management
Sue Kirby, Maureen Frances, Joyce Chong, Gawaine Powell Davies, David Perkins, Nicholas Zwar, Mark Harris

GP & PHC Research Conference

Kirby, S. Dennis, S. & Harris. M. Patient characteristics which contribute to frequent presentations to emergency. in GP & PHC Research Conference 2008. Hobart.

Skills- Research

• quantitative statistical analysis using SPSS
• qualitative using NVivo for analysis of text
• research design
• data collection hospitals, community health services and general practicepatient/client information databases
• research capacity building for clinicians

Service evaluation

• rural/remote health
• primary health care
• hospital services
• ambulatory care services
• asthma education services
• wound management services
• services for people with disabilities

Skills and experience

• Strategic Planning
• Report Writing
• Strategic Management
• Policy Development

Other Experience

Director of the Board of the Illawarra Division of General Practice 2002 – 2006

Director of the Board of Barnardos (Children’s charity) Australia 2000 -2005

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