Associate Professor David Douglas 

Rehabilitation Physician

A/Prof David Douglas is a rehabilitation physician with experience in general rehabilitation and a special interest in neuro-rehabilitation.  Prior to joining Jamieson Trauma Institute, A/Prof Douglas worked with patients who suffered an acquired brain injury.

He led the establishment of a specialised stroke service at Ipswich Hospital and has been Medical Director of the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit of Princess Alexandra Hospital treating people with severe traumatic brain injury.

A/Prof Douglas also has experience in community medicine, having worked as a solo rural general practitioner in northern Western Australia and central Victoria.  As a result of these experiences, he has a strong commitment to delivery of equitable health services across all communities. In addition to this clinical experience, A/Prof Douglas has trained as a health service manager and worked in line administration and health service planning, both in Australia and Asia.

Associate Professor Cate Cameron

A/Prof Cameron is a Principal Research Fellow in the Jamieson Trauma Institute and is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at QUT.

A/Prof Cameron’s primary role is the development and coordination of JTI’s research capacity.

A/Prof Cameron has over 25 years of clinical and academic experience, with a PhD in Epidemiology and primary interest in injury prevention and trauma outcomes research using data linkage methods.
In addition to national and international data linkage projects, A/Prof Cameron’s work has included developing and managing a longitudinal birth cohort study of child health and injury outcomes, paediatric and adult burns trauma, spinal cord injury rehabilitation and European Union funded research on Violence against Children (VAC) in Afghanistan. A/Prof Cameron is currently supervising several PhD candidates at the University of Queensland and Griffith University and has been an expert advisor on several State Health, Disability and Trauma committees and is a current member of the QLD Health Data Linkage Reference Group Statewide Trauma Clinical Network.

Associate Professor Kirsten Vallmuur

A/Prof Kirsten Vallmuur is a Principal Research Fellow in the Jamieson Trauma Institute under a joint appointment with the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation at the Queensland University of Technology. The position is funded by a three year fellowship awarded by the Motor Accident Insurance Commission in 2017.

A/Prof Vallmuur’s role is to contribute to the establishment, development and coordination of the Statewide Trauma Data Warehouse (an initiative of Queensland Health) and to conduct research using integrated linked trauma data to better understand the burden, patterns, treatment, costs and outcomes of trauma in Queensland.

A/Prof Vallmuur has a PhD in Psychology and previously worked as a Principal Research Fellow/ARC Future Fellow at the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety Queensland, QUT for a number of years, before moving recently to the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation, QUT to undertake the current fellowship project. She has expertise in injury surveillance systems, trauma data linkage, health classifications and injury classifications.

Jacelle Warren

Jacelle Warren is a Biostatistician in the Jamieson Trauma Institute.

Ms Warren has completed a Masters of Science (Statistics) through the Biostatistical Collaboration of Australia and The University of Queensland. She has co-authored numerous statistical reports for the Queensland Trauma Registry and for the Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC), in addition to a number of peer-reviewed publications on determinants of outcome following injury.

Ms Warren has extensive experience with statistical analysis of large injury datasets, both cross-sectional and longitudinal, and has a particular interest in the physical and psychological recovery of injured people.

She has also spent ten years working in data management, data analysis and reporting of injury data collected by the Queensland Trauma Registry (QTR).

Rosalind Wendt

Rosalind Wendt is the JTI Trauma Coordinator for Jamieson Trauma Institute and comes from a background in nursing and midwifery at both Metro North and Metro South Hospital and Health Services.

Providing support for the Institute and its researchers, Rosalind is a key coordinator for collaborative meetings, committee liaising and JTI’s documentation registration.

Rosalind’s previous experience includes seven years at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), where she specialised in a number of key trauma areas and led program coordination for the RACS Trauma Verification Program. She was also the secretariat for several key committees including RACS Qld Trauma, Trauma Verification and Trauma Quality Improvement including sponsorship/ budgeting for Australasian Verification site reviews and trauma committees.

ESO
Executive Assistant to Professor Michael Schuetz

Prof Michael Reade
Professor of Military Medicine & Surgery, School of Medicine, UQ
Colonel, ADF Joint Health Command
Consultant Intensivist, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, RBWH
Clinical Representative, Australian Defence Force

Dr Carl Lisec
Burns and Surgeon, RBWH
Clinical Representative, Burns and Trauma

Dr Jason Brown
Burns and General Surgeon, RBWH
Director, Professor Stuart Pegg Adult Burns Centre, RBWH
Clinical Representative, Burns and Trauma

A/Prof Paul Thomas
Director, Herston Imagining Research Facility (HIRF)
A/Director Specialised PED Services Queensland, RBWH

A/Prof Kevin Tetsworth
Orthopaedics RBWH

Honorary JTI

• Prof Mark Midwinter, Professor Clinical Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UQ
• Dr Jamie Phillips, Medical Director, Commando Medicine
• Major General Jeffrey Rosenfield, Monash Institute of Medical Engineering
• Dr John Crozier, Vascular Surgeon, Chair RACS Bi-National Trauma Committee
• Prof Martin Wullschleger, General Surgeon & Co-Director Trauma GCUH
• Dr David Lockwood, General Surgeon & Director Trauma Service, PAH
• Prof Gerard (Gerry) Fitzgerald, CARRS-Q & QUT
• Prof Barry Watson, Prof Public Health, QUT
• Prof Marianne Vonau, Neurosurgeon Gold Coast University Hospital
• Prof Vivienne Tippett PhD, OAM, Director of Research School of Clinical Science; BNHCRC Lead Researcher, Centre for Disaster & Emergency Management; Dep. Director, JBI Centre for Evidence Based Healthy Ageing QUT
• Ross Crawford, Chair in Orthopaedic Research Science and Engineering Faculty, Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics