Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

1. Diet quality of individuals with multimorbidity undergoing exercise rehabilitation
2. Mechanisms of obesity paradox in individuals with chronic heart and lung diseases
3. Implementation intervention to reduce hospital-acquired malnutrition

20142024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Biography

Dr. Ching Shan (Angela) Wan is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and Research Fellow for Respiratory Research @ Alfred at Monash University. She has also been appointed as an Adjunct Research Fellow at Griffith University. She is an implementation science researcher who has been actively involved in health services research projects to improve evidence-based healthcare delivery since 2014. She has expertise in designing and overseeing multi-site clinical trials and theory-based research programs to reduce hospital-acquired complications and readmissions and improve cultural appropriateness and patient safety. Her research track record strongly focuses on enhancing evidence-based healthcare delivery, process evaluation, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her involvement in research projects has directly impacted clinical practice, as demonstrated by her advocacy for a tailored and individualised transition model for individuals with multimorbidity in preventing hospital readmissions. She also designed a theory-based implementation intervention trial to de-implement low-value pressure injury care relating to nutrition and support surface allocation in hospitals, attracting $60k to assist with the trial development. 

Research interests

  1. Using implementation science frameworks and theories to accelerate evidence translation and narrow evidence-practice gaps
  2. Investigating how obesity paradox and exercise rehabilitation influence medical nutrition therapy for individuals with multimorbidity 
  3. Conducting process evaluation of clinicial trials to improve and sustain value-based healthcare delivery 
  4. De-implementing low-value clinical practices and implementing evidence-based practices to reduce hospital-acquired complications 
  5. Exploring how patients' cultural values and beliefs influence preferences and expectations in healthcare to improve health equity 

Supervision interests

  1. Design research programs and develop interventions to improve nutritional support for individuals with multimorbidity
  2. Design research programs and develop interventions to reduce hospital-acquired complications using implementation science frameworks/models/theories and process evaluation
  3. Advance interdisciplinary collaboration in healthcare delivery
  4. Explore ethnic and cultural differences in disease management to improve health equity 

Clinical activities

  1. Member Engagement Coordinator of the Diabetes Interest Group Leadership Committee in Dietitians Australia
  2. Guest Editor of the special issue "The Role of Nutrition in Wound Care and Healing" in Nutrients

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

External positions

Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University

Research Fellow, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne

Research area keywords

  • Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
  • Nutrition Intervention
  • health services research
  • Implementation science
  • health equity
  • interdisciplinary research

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