Professor James Dunbar
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Director
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Professor James Dunbar (MD, FRCPEdin, FRCGP, FRACGP, FFPHM, FACRRM) inaugural Director of the GGT UDRH since 2001, was previously Medical Director at Borders Primary Care National Health Services Trust in the United Kingdom. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of Rural Health; author or editor of several books; chapters in over ten books and over 100 original articles. Professor Dunbar teaches Clinical Governance and Risk Management for Flinders University in Adelaide, Singapore and China. He was the Inaugural Director of the National Primary Care Collaboratives. His research interests include the prevention of diabetes and quality improvement in health care, especially for the chronic diseases depression, diabetes and heart disease.
Curriculum Vitae
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A Selection of Recent Publications
- A Chronic Disease Model of Care for Coronary Heart Disease and Depression
- A Conceptual Model for Recruitment and Retention: Allied Health Workforce Enhancement in Western Victoria, Australia
- A CONDUIT to Integrate Information Systems and People to Promote Continuity of Care, Research and Health Outcomes
- A Low Participation Rate in A Population Health Survey-Why?
- A Nationally Recognised Initiative to Provide an Integrated Alcohol Service within a Primary Health Care Team
- A Population-Based Approach to Optimising Antihypertensive Use
- A Practice Based COPD Rehabilitation Programme
- A Rural Model for Delivering Regional Continuing Nurse Education by Videoconference: A Pilot Project
- A Systematic Approach to Learning Aimed at Graduate Physiotherapists Practicing in South West Victoria
- A systematic approach to undertaking the ‘45 year old health check’ in General Practice
- A Virtual Clinic: Telemetric Assessment and Monitoring for Rural and Remote Areas
- Access and Attitude of Rural Allied Health Professionals to Continuing Professional Development and Training
- Access to Allied Health Pilot
- Addressing evidence treatment gaps for cardiovascular disease through primary care collaboration
- Addressing Podiatry Shortages in South West Victoria
- Addressing Podiatry Shortages in Western Victoria
- Alcohol and Driving: The Role of the Family Doctor
- Allied Health Workforce Enhancement in Western Victoria: A Concept for Recruitment and Retention at Evidence and Excellence: Regional Allied Health at Its Best
- An Evaluation Framework for the Qualitative Investigation of A Physical Activity Prescription Program in Rural Victoria
- An Evidence-Based Approach to Podiatry Workforce Enhancement and Service Provision in Western Victoria
- An Exploration of Issues of Management and Intention to Stay: Allied Health Professionals in South West Victoria, Australia
- Application of a collaborative care model for management of depression in diabetes and coronary heart disease in general practice
- Attitudes and Knowledge of Depression in Type 2 Diabetes: A Survey of Diabetes Educators
- Australian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs (APSAD) Conference: Plenary Address
- BeyondBlue FINAL Report - October 2007
- Building research capacity in General Practice: Incorporating research as a component of GP vocational Training
- Cardiac Rehabilitation in South West Victoria: Factors Influencing Attendance
- Challenges in Health Services and Health Systems Research
- Checks and Cheques: Implementing a Population Health and Recall System to Improve Coverage of Patients with Diabetes in a Rural General Practice
- Chronic Disease Management of Co-Morbid Depression, Heart Disease and Diabetes in Primary Care
- Chronic Disease Risk Factors in Rural Australia: Results from the Greater Green Triangle Risk Factor Surveys
- Chronic Disease Risk Factors In The Greater Green Triangle
- Clinical Governance in Primary Care: Keynote Address
- Collaboratives: Plenary Address
- Coronary Heart Disease in the New Millennium
- Depression and Diabetes: Detection, Barriers and Interventions
- Depression: An Important Co Morbidity with Metabolic Syndrome in a General Population
- Depression: An Important Co-morbidity with Metabolic Syndrome and its Components
- Detection and Treatment of Hypertension in Rural Australia
- Detection and treatment of hypertension in rural Australia
- Developing a Chronic Disease Model of Care for Coronary Artery Disease and Depression in Rural Settings
- Developing a training program for facilitators delivering a state level diabetes prevention program: the Life! Experience in Victoria, Australia
- Developing Diabetes Prevention Programs for CALD groups: what the literature tells us
- Developing Drug and Alcohol Services: The Choice Between Research for Quality Improvement Approaches
- Development of a Collaborative Chronic Disease Model of Care for Co-Morbid Coronary Heart Disease and Depression
- Diabetes prevention
- Diabetes Prevention - An Australian Approach
- Dietary Advice to Patients Receiving Pharmacotherapy for Cardiovascular Disease: Is It Being Delivered?
- Dietary Changes in the Whole Population is the Main Answer to Dyslipidaedemia in the UK
- Disease Management
- Does the dose of telephone support intervention influence health outcomes?
- Dyslipidaemia in rural Australia: the evidence of treatment gaps
- Education and Training in Rural Workforce Development
- Educational Needs of Rural Physiotherapists, the Development of Continuing Professional Development, and the Effect on Perceived Clinical Skills
- Effects of the Heartbeat Wales Programme
- Enhancing Uptake and Completion of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Rural South West Victoria
- Enhancing Uptake and Completion of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Rural South West Victoria
- Enhancing Uptake and Completion of Cardiac Rehabilitation in South West Victoria
- Epidemiologists and Researchers Continue to Overlook the Obvious
- Evaluation of A Primary Care Anticoagulant Clinic Managed by A Pharmacist
- Evaluation of Training Programs for Health Professionals on Management of Depression in Heart Disease and Diabetes Implications for Primary Health Care
- Evidence-based Best Practice Model Clinical Pathways for People with Co-morbid Depression and Coronary Heart Disease
- Evidenced Based General Practice: Still the Evidence is Largely Absent
- Food & Move - A Secondary School Based Intervention Project Promoting Healthy Eating And Participation in Regular Physical Activity
- Food Cost and Availability in a Rural Setting in Australia
- General Practice and Primary Care: Plenary Address
- General Practice Hospital Integration Pilot
- General Practice in Australia
- Greater Green Triangle Risk Factor Study: Limestone Coast and Corangamite Shire Surveys
- Healthy Hearts in Pharmacy: Developing the Framework for a Pharmacy-Based Cardiovascular Health Program
- History of Diabetes Prevention in the Greater Green Triangle and the Diabetes Prevention Project – Telephone support follow-up study
- Identifying Depression in Patients Following Admission for Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Implementation of a primary care program for management of complex comorbidities: depression, diabetes and coronary heart disease
- Implementation of Needs-Based Interactive Continuing Education for Rural Physiotherapists with Enhanced Access: A Case Study
- Implementing the Evidence: A Disease Management System for Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in the Scottish Boarders
- Implementing the North Karelia Project in Scotland
- In the Wake of Hospital Inquiries: Impact on Staff and Safety
- Individual Differences in Actual and Preferred Organisational Cultures
- Influencing the Health of Secondary School Students by Focusing on the School Canteen
- Integrating Depression Management with Chronic Disease Management
- Integration and coordination of care
- Is the NHS Irredeemable?
- It's the Quality of Management that Differs
- Lessons on continuous quality improvement: An Australian state level diabetes prevention program
- Life! Taking Action on Diabetes; research into practice
- Limestone Coast Risk Factor Survey
- Lipids and Primary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease
- Location of diabetes 'hotspots' in Melbourne: prevalence in multicultural groups
- Management of Lipids in Rural Australia. Are the Guidelines being followed?
- National Primary Care Collaboratives (NPCC)
- New Money for Mental Health: Will It Make Things Better for Rural and Remote Australia?
- New Patients Presenting to Their GP with Dyspepsia: Does Helicobacter Pylori Eradication Minimise the Cost of Managing These Patients?
- Obstetrics Survey 2003
- Overweight, Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in Rural South-Eastern Australia
- Patient Engagement and Coaching for Health: The PEACH Study - A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial Using the Telephone to Coach People with Type 2 Diabetes to Engage with Their GPs to Improve Diabete
- Physical activity and behaviours of adults in the Greater Green Triangle region of Rural Australia
- Play and Literacy: What is the Connection?
- Prevalence of Psychological Distress, Anxiety and Depression in Rural Communities in Australia
- Prevalence, detection and drug treatment of hypertension in a rural Australian population: the Greater Green Triangle Risk Factor Study 2004 -2006
- Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes by Lifestyle Intervention in an Australian Primary Health Care Setting: Greater Green Triangle (GGT) Diabetes Prevention Project
- Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes in a Primary Health Care Setting: Interim Results from the Greater Green Triangle (GGT) Diabetes Prevention Project
- Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes in An Australian Primary Health Care Settings: Greater Green Triangle Diabetes Prevention Project
- Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes:The Role of the GP
- Primary Care Collaboratives in Australia
- Procedural Trained, Procedural Remain: The First Report from 'A Census of Doctors who Have Been Awarded the Graduate Diploma in Rural General Practice'
- Provision of Specialist Services in Primary Care 1998
- Rapid Prescribing Change, How Do Patients Respond?
- Recognising the Impact of Depression in Heart Disease Evaluation of Training Programs for Health Professionals in Rural Australia
- Recommendations from the Evaluation of Rural Boards
- Reform directions: the contribution of organisational development
- Retention Issues of Allied Health Professionals in the South West of Victoria: A Report
- Rural Dental Workforce Enhancement: The Establishment of A Sustainable Interprofessional Model
- Rural Inter Professional Education Conference: Plenary Address
- Rural Smokers: a prevention opportunity
- Scotland's Pandemics Also Need Coordinated and Vigorous Primary Healthcare Programmes
- Strategic Management for Boards
- Suboptimal use of medicines for dyslipidaemia in rural Australia.
- Substained gains from a primary care Diabetes Prevention Program
- Tackling Geographical Inequity: A Disease Management System for Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in the Scottish Borders
- Taking Action on Diabetes – research into practice
- The Challenge of Managed Care and Disease Management for Primary Care in the UK
- The Corangamite Cardiovascular Risk Factor Survey - Preliminary Findings
- The design of a group diabetes prevention program focused on gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)
- The Development of A Network of Pharmacist Academics to Support Rural and Remote Pharmacy
- The Dietary, Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviours of Victorian Regional Secondary School Students
- The Downfield Teenage Health Initiative
- The Effect of a Tailored CPD Program on Perceived Clinical Physiotherapy Skills in South West Victoria
- The emotional context of self-management in chronic illness: A qualitative study of the role of health professional support in the self-management of type 2 diabetes
- The Greater Green Triangle Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Partnership - towards Greater Cardiovascular Health in Rural Areas
- The Greater Green Triangle Cardiovascular Health in Rural Areas
- The Greater Green Triangle Diabetes Prevention Project
- The Health System: Can Its Outcome be Improved?
- The Lifestyle Project
- The Role of an Extended Primary Health Care Team
- The Rural Stroke Needs Study-Developing an Integrated Model of Care for the Rural Stroke Patient
- The TrueBlue study: Is practice nurse-led collaborative care effective in the management of depression for patients with heart disease or diabetes?
- The TrueBlue study: Is practice nurse-led collaborative care effective in the management of depression for patients with heart disease or diabetes?
- Trends in Referral Patterns
- Weight change and health related quality of life following a group-based diabetes prevention program in Australia
- Weight misperceptions in rural Australia: recognising weight status in an environment where overweight and obesity are the norm
- Where is the evidence that rural exposure increases uptake of rural medical practice?
- Workforce Trends in Specialist and GP Obstetric Practice in Victoria