Professor Justin Beilby
Professor Justin Beilby is the Executive Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide and was Professor and Head of the Department of General Practice from 2002-2005. He currently oversees academic and research programs in medicine, dentistry, nursing, health sciences and psychology.
He has been involved in research, both clinical and policy-related in the areas of workforce planning, primary care financing, chronic illness and the quality use of medicines for over fifteen years, in urban and rural settings. He has an extensive experience in the implementation intervention trials in primary care. He was recently identified (in 2010) as one of the 50 most influential general practitioners in Australia with a comment that he has been a national leader in primary care implementation studies. He was the Chief Investigator on the Point of Care Intervention trial (2006-2009) that enrolled over 5000 patients from general practices across Australia.
He was the Independent Chair of the Medical Benefits Scheme Item Restructuring Working Group that developed the 7 Tier consultation model which involved all general practice stakeholder groups including the Australian Medical Association. He has published widely in the area of new models for the management of chronic illness, asthma, diabetes and primary care financing.
He has supervised over 10 PhD and Research Masters students to completion over the last 5 years, and, over the same period, has managed teams and research staff that have completed NHMRC and State and Commonwealth projects worth over $7 million dollars.
Professor Beilby’s current Government links are extensive. He is a member of the South Australian Department of Health Clinical Senate and the group coordinating the development of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital. He has been Deputy Chair of the Children’s, Youth and Women’s Health Service from 2005-2007. He was appointed by the Minister of Health to the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission in 2008. He is still in active general practice.
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