IJHAM | Editorial Panel

International Journal of Health & Ageing Management

Editorial Board

Dr Shankar Sankaran
University of Technology Sydney

Shankar is an Associate Professor at University of Technology , Sydney. He worked for several years in industry in Asia and the Middle East in operations and project management before joining academia. Shankar is involved in collaborative projects with organisations in health and aged care for leadership development. Shankar's interests in health and ageing is in the appropriate use of technology, applying action learning for management development and the practical use of action research to address strategic issues in this field. Shankar is on the editorial board of Action Research, Australasian Journal of Business and Social Research and Action Research International.

Peter Miller
Southern Cross University

Peter is an Associate Professor at Southern Cross University. He has 25 years management experience in public and private sector organisations. He was recently Deputy Chair of Maranoa Homes for the Aged, an aged care facility on the far North Coast of NSW which catered for residents from self care to nursing home. He has supervised doctoral research into the Commonwealth Aged Care Standards and been involved in the restructuring of aged care organisations. He has been and continues to be involved in consultancy with a number of national and smaller organisations in the areas of leadership/management and organisational development.

Colleen Cartwright
Southern Cross University

Colleen is the Foundation Professor of Aged Services and Director of the Aged Services Learning & Research Collaboration at Southern Cross University and Adjunct Professor in the UNSW Faculty of Medicine, Rural Clinical School . Professor Cartwright has extensive teaching and research experience in ageing, ethics and medical decisions at the end of life, at national and international levels, with publications in major journals and a number of book chapters. She designed the Advance Health Directive and Enduring Power of Attorney forms that are part of Qld Powers of Attorney Act (1998). Professor Cartwright regularly reviews journal articles, grant applications and conference presentations for a range of journals and organisations.

Lawson Savery

Editorial Advisory Board

Stephanie Chee

Stephanie is a work-life consultant and trainer, approved by Singapore Ministry of Manpower. Her other experience includes action research supervision and facilitation for teachers from public schools in Singapore and graduate students pursuing academic research. Her other pet subjects include nursing education, quality assurance monitoring system, human resource development, child health and nutrition, and gerontology. She was a member of the national committee for “Family Matters! Singapore” between 2004 and 2006, and member of the national sub-committee on Intergeneration Bonding. She is also a part-time Action Research Lecturer and Action Research Consultant with National Institute of Education (Graduate Program & Research Office, Nanyang Technological University).

Geof Hill
Investigative Practitioner

Dr Geof Hill is the Principal Director of The Investigative Practitioner. As a consultant he has designed and delivered professional development programs in Communication and Management for Aged Care. He is an avid practice investigator, undertaking practice development programs for a range of practitioners and working with research projects both in the community and in the university setting.

Jim Curran
University of New South Wales

Jim is Associate Professor in the University of New South Wales , School of Rural Health , based at the Coffs Harbour Campus. Previously he was Director of Community and Aged Services for Tasmania and more recently an active General Practitioner in Coffs. While in Tasmania he implemented Australia 's first State-wide Assessment system for Aged Care placements. His interests lie in the provision of services to the Aged and particularly the application of technology to these areas. More recently he has set up an Aged Services Research Collaboration at Coffs Harbour involving UNSW School of Rural Health, Southern Cross University School of Health and Allied Services, and the North Coast Institute of TAFE.

Linda Taylor
Blue Care

Linda is currently the Director of Nursing of a large Aged Care facility in Tweed Heads. She has over 12 years of leadership experience in Aged Care, Acute Care and education. She has completed a Master of Nursing, has been a partner in multiple research projects and is an author of a range of papers. Linda has a passion for developing organisational systems that allow people within the organisation to excel and thus create a service of excellence. She is in favour of participatory processes in organizations to both plan and deliver services in a mutually supportive environment.

Martin Orr
University of Auckland

Martin Orr is consultant Psychiatrist, and Clinical Director of Information Services for Waitemata District Health Board, and Senior Lecturer in Health knowledge Management at Auckland University School of Population Health. His research interests include "innovation" and the application of informatics, knowledge management, action research, and complexity theory to the health environment.

Jim Sheffield
University of Auckland

Jim is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at the University of Auckland . His research initiatives include the development of economic strategy, science policy, regional planning and postgraduate research programmes. He has written three books and published in Journal of MIS , International Journal of Business Information Systems, Journal of Arts Management, People and Performance , and Group Decision and Negotiation . He is the editorial board of international journals and is Chair of the Ethics and Philosophy in Knowledge Management mini-track at HICSS. Current interests include: Habermasian inquiring systems, knowledge management, research methods, and collaborative learning.

Shi Zhou
Southern Cross University

Shi Zhou is an Associate Professor in Southern Cross University. He is an exercise scientist in the School of Health and Human Sciences. He has been teaching and doing research in the area of exercise physiology. He has worked in several reputed research laboratories overseas, published numerous refereed research papers, and been invited as a reviewer for a number of international journals and conferences. He is on the editorial board of Chinese Journal of Sports Medicine, and Journal of Exercise Science and Fitness. His current research interests include neuromuscular responses and adaptations to exercise and training; and exercise testing, training and rehabilitation for selected populations.

Nurit Friedman
Maccabi Healthcare Services

Nurit is a Director of research and evaluation at Maccabi Healthcare Services in Tel Aviv. She has conducted evaluation research in the implementation of comprehensive assessments of service e utilization,, quality and cost effectiveness and is in the process of completing her PhD from Ben Gurion University . She has published chapters in books and refereed articles in medical journals. Nurit completed her Master of public Administration in Harvard University and her Masters at Boston University .

Akihiro Ogawa
Harvard University

Akihiro Ogawa is currently an Associate of the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University , after finishing a Ph.D. in Anthropology in summer 2004. He has published monographs, book chapters, and articles in refereed journals, in both English and Japanese, on the third/non-profit sector, public policy, post-welfare state, demographic change and Action Research. He has completed a book manuscript on the emerging non-profit sector and volunteerism in Japan , now under review by a university press.

Pushpa Narayanaswamy
Harvard Medical School

Pushpa is a neurologist with subspecialty interests in Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuromuscular Diseases. She completed DM Neurology in, India and a residency in Neurology, and a Fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuromuscular Diseases and practiced at Memphis , Tennessee . and Hastings , Nebraska . She has recently accepted an appointment as Instructor, Department of Neurology, Division of Neuromuscular disease, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center , Boston . Her research interests include autoantibodies in Neuromuscular Diseases and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. She is a member of the State Affairs Committee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Research Committee of the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine.

John Stevens
Southern Cross University

Maree Walo
Southern Cross University

Jacqueline Kelly
LCC

Devi Ranasinghe

John Lawrence

John is currently a Service Development Consultant with Life Care, a diverse mid-sized aged care services provider in South Australia . He also maintains an active involvement in a range of health and ageing research projects with universities, the aged care service sector and CSIRO. Trained in psychology, information science and education, John is currently progressing doctoral studies on the clinical management and self-management of chronic conditions. John's primary work since 2000 has involved managing a broad range of health self-management research projects and postgraduate aged care courses in the School of Medicine, Flinders University. His major interests lie in developing workplace and community leaders, cultures and systems to optimise the quality of life of older people.

San Murugesan
Southern Cross University

San Murugesan is professor of information technology in the School of Commerce and Management at Southern Cross University, Australia. His research interests include mobile and wireless computing applications, health informatics and mobile health, IT for the elderly, Web engineering, information retrieval, Web services, innovation, and global software development. Dr. Murugesan is a distinguished visitor and tutorial speaker of the IEEE Computer Society. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Web Engineering and Inter national Journal of E-Business Research, and Co-Editor of International Journal of Health Information Systems and Informatics. He is Vice-Chair of the Web Engineering Track of World Wide Web Conference 2007. He was General Chair of the 5th International Conference on Web Engineering, which was held in Sydney in July 2005, and he has served as co-chair and organizer of other international workshops and conferences. Prior to joining the faculty of Southern Cross University, Dr. Murugesan served in various senior positions at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, and the Indian Space Research Organization, Bangalore, India. He also served as Senior Research Fellow of the US National Research Council at the NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California, USA.

Yun Zhou
Peking University

Yun Zhou is a professor at Institute of Population Research of Peking University where she teaches social demography. With a background in socio-cultural anthropology, she researches in kinship and family, aging and old age care, family planning, as well as temporary migration and published papers in the fields. Her research areas involve China , Japan and U.S. and this has been reflected in her teaching and different research projects.

Ian Hughes
University of Sydney

Dr Ian Hughes is a Senior Lecturer in Behavioural and Community Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney , where he teaches in the gerontology programme in Gerontology. He has an established international reputation in action research. His current research integrates complex adaptive systems theory with action research in several community health and aged care settings.