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
- Dyslipidaemia in rural Australia: prevalence, awareness, and adherence to treatment guidelines in the Greater Green Triangle Risk Factor Study
- Should Capillary Blood Glucose Measurements be used in Population Surveys?
- Supporting self-management of chronic health conditions: Common approaches
- The TrueBlue study: Is practice nurse-led collaborative care effective in the management of depression for patients with heart disease or diabetes?
- Integration and coordination of care
- Chronic Disease Risk Factors in Rural Australia: Results from the Greater Green Triangle Risk Factor Surveys
- Rural Smokers: a prevention opportunity
- Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes:The Role of the GP
- 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
- Rethinking of polices for the retention of allied health professionals in rural areas: A social relations approach.
- Workload capacity measures for estimating allied health staffing requirements
- Exploring the barriers and enablers to attendance at rural cardiac rehabilitation programs
- Statewide allied health workforce education and training: equity of access and building rural workforce capacity
- Leaders and Their Teams: Learning to Improve Performance with Emotional Intelligence and Using Choice Theory
- Motivational Interviewing in the Prevention of Management of Chronic Disease: Improving Physical Activity and Exercise in Line with Choice Theory
- Where is the evidence that rural exposure increases uptake of rural medical practice?
- Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes by Lifestyle Intervention in an Australian Primary Health Care Setting: Greater Green Triangle (GGT) Diabetes Prevention Project
- Overweight, obesity and metabolic syndrome in rural southeastern Australia
- Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes in a Primary Health Care Setting: Interim Results from the Greater Green Triangle (GGT) Diabetes Prevention Project
- New Money for Mental Health: Will It Make Things Better for Rural and Remote Australia?
- PD at Your Doorstep
- 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
- Prevalence of Psychological Distress, Anxiety and Depression in Rural Communities in Australia
- The Sport Injury Rehabilitation Adherence Scale: A Reliable Scale for Use in Clinical Physiotherapy
- In the Wake of Hospital Inquiries: Impact on Staff and Safety
- Workforce Trends in Specialist and GP Obstetric Practice in Victoria
- An Exploration of Issues of Management and Intention to Stay: Allied Health Professionals in South West Victoria, Australia
- Reasons and Predictors for Choosing Ambulance Transportation by Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction in Australia
- Attracting and Retaining Physios
- Associations Between Estimated Aerobic Fitness and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Adults with Different Levels of Abdominal Obesity
- Retention of Allied Health Professionals in the South-west of Victoria: A Report
- Epidemiologists and Researchers Continue to Overlook the Obvious
- Access and Attitude of Rural Allied Health Professionals to Continuing Professional Development and Training
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