Research Interests

The Faculty maintains an extensive database of individual research profiles. Structured around a fixed list of 70 broad research terms, profiles are maintained by staff themselves and are regularly updated. Be sure to make regular visits...

Ageing
Allergy
Bioethics
Biomedical Engineering
Biostatistics
Cancer
Cardiology and Vascular Disease
Cell Biology and Gene Regulation
Clinical Governance
Clinical Research
Diabetes
Epidemiology
Evidence Based Medicine
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Genetics - Genome Analysis
Gerontology - Geriatrics
Global Health
Haematology
Health Policy
Health Services Research
HIV - AIDS
Imaging / Radiology
Immunology
Infectious Diseases
Inflammation
Injury
Medical Education
Medical Informatics
Metabolism
Molecular Structure & Drug Design
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Neurology
Neuroscience
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedics
Pain
Pathology
Pharmacology
Physiology
Population Health
Preventive Medicine
Primary Health Care
Pulmonary Disease
Rehabilitation
	Associate Professor Gideon Caplan     Prince of Wales Clinical School - Department of Medicine Statement of Interests: The delivery of acute health services has potential benefits and side effects of an order of magnitude greater than most pharmaceutical agents, yet are rarely vigorously studied. It may be possible to manipulate these effects by, for example, the substitution for care in the hospital with care at home, during the acute or post acute phases. This would bring benefits for health outcomes, patient satisfaction and costs to the health system which need to be defined. Delirium is the most common problem bedevilling older people in hospital. Yet little is understood about the basic pathophysiology of delirium. Using a multidisciplinary, bedside to lab bench approach, we hope to unlock the mystery of delirium. More...
	Associate Professor Jacqueline Close     Prince of Wales Clinical School Statement of Interests: Falls and fracture prevention in older people through: a)the systematic identification of risk factors b)the testing of interventions through RCTs c)application of the evidence in the routine clinical setting More...
Renal Disease
Stem Cells
Surgery
Toxicology
Transplantation
Virology