Professor James Dunbar
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Director
Room #: D221 Tel: 03 5563 3504 Fax: 03 5563 3144 Email: director@greaterhealth.org
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 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 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 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 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
- Allied Health Workforce Enhancement Program. Key Performance Indicator Report: July - December 2005
- 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
- APSAD Conference, Plenary Address
- Attitudes and Knowledge of Depression in Type 2 Diabetes: A Survey of Diabetes Educators
- Barriers and Enablers: The Influence of Barriers and Enablers in Shaping Implementation Strategies
- BeyondBlue FINAL Report - October 2007
- BeyondBlue Report to July 2006
- 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 The Greater Green Triangle
- Clinical Governance in Primary Care. Keynote Address
- Coronary Heart Disease in the New Millennium
- Developing a Chronic Disease Model of Care for Coronary Artery Disease and Depression in Rural Settings
- Developing a Clinical Pathway for the Management of Co-Morbid Depression and Coronary Heart Disease
- Developing Drug and Alcohol Services: The Choice Between Research for Quality Improvement Approaches
- Developing Ownership of Continuing Education Among Rural Physiotherapists: A Case Study
- 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
- 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 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
- Future Trajectories: A Cross-national Study
- Gender and Affect: A Cross-Cultural Comparison in the Asia-Pacific Region
- General Practice and Primary Care, Plenary Address
- General Practice Hospital Integration Pilot
- General Practice in Australia
- GGT Risk Factor Surveys: Executive Summary
- GGT Risk Factor Surveys: Final Report
- Greater Green Triangle Risk Factor Study: Limestone Coast and Corangamite Shire Surveys
- Identifying Depression in Patients Following Admission for Acute Coronary Syndrome
- 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
- Is the NHS Irredeemable?
- It's the Quality of Management that Differs
- Lipids and Primary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease
- 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
- Play and Literacy: What is the Connection?
- Plenary Address
- Prevalence of Psychological Distress, Anxiety and Depression in Rural Communities in Australia
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Scotland's Pandemics Also Need Coordinated and Vigorous Primary Healthcare Programmes
- Strategic Management for Boards
- Tackling Geographical Inequity: A Disease Management System for Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in the Scottish Borders
- The Challenge of Managed Care and Disease Management for Primary Care in the UK
- The Corangamite Cardiovascular Risk Factor Survey-Preliminary Findings
- 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 Effects of Mode of Exercise Instruction on Correctness of Home Exercise Performance and Adherence
- 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 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
- Trends in Referral Patterns
- Weighing It Up Downunder-Obesity: An Australian Perspective
- Workforce Trends in Specialist and GP Obstetric Practice in Victoria