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Personal profile
Biography
Dr Judy Lowthian was appointed the Principal Research Fellow at the RSL Care + Royal District Nursing Service Research Institute in late 2016, following the completion of her NHMRC Early Career Fellowship (Investigating rising demand for emergency health care with an ageing population).
She also holds a 0.2 EFT appointment as a Senior Research Fellow within the Pre-hospital, Emergency & Trauma Unit and an honorary appointment with Alfred Health.
Her research is underpinned by a clinical background in speech pathology rehabilitation and health service management in Australia and the UK. Her specific interest is health services research designed to improve the quality and safety of patient care.
Areas of published scholarship include: epidemiological and intervention studies in pre-hospital and emergency care, evaluation studies of primary care and acute hospital programs, and medication safety in older patients.
In the past five years, Dr Lowthian has been the recipient of numerous competitive grants and prizes/awards. One of her doctoral thesis manuscripts “The challenges of population ageing: accelerating demand for emergency ambulance services by older patients, 1995–2015”, was awarded the AMA (Vic) Sir Richard Stawell Memorial Prize, for an article “on a medical subject of clinical significance” published in the Medical Journal of Australia. She serves on national and international committees that focus on improving geriatric emergency care.
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):
External positions
Principal Research Fellow, Royal District Nursing Service (Victoria)
Nov 2016 → …
Research area keywords
- Geriatrics
- Models of Care
- Health Services Research
- Emergency Management
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 7 Finished
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Be Your Best: an innovative, co-designed approach to frailty and care transitions from hospital to home, in people aged 65 years or more.
Lowthian, J. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Mills, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Cyarto, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Meyer, C. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Dickins, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Thurgood, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Boyd, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Walker, K. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Rose, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), De Villiers Smit, P. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Newnham, H. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Hutchinson, A. M. (Chief Investigator (CI))
Department of Health and Aged Care (Australia)
1/07/19 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
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Supporting Residential Aged Care nurses in ensuring good outcomes and appropriate use of resources in the management of cardiac arrest.
Cartledge, S. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Bray, J. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Finn, J. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Smith, K. (Associate Investigator (AI)) & Lowthian, J. (Associate Investigator (AI))
Nurses Board of Victoria Legacy Limited (NBVLL)
1/03/18 → 28/02/19
Project: Research
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REDIRECT: Reducing older patients' avoidable presentations for emergency care treatment.
Mazza, D., Pearce, C., Lowthian, J., Browning, C., Shearer, M. & Brijnath, B.
Australian National University (ANU)
1/10/13 → 1/04/15
Project: Research
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A multi-centre RCT to prevent secondary falls in older people presenting to the emergency department with a fall
Barker, A. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Cameron, P. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Hill, K. D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Flicker, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Haines, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Lowthian, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Waldron, N. G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Arendts, G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Redfern, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Forbes, A. (Chief Investigator (CI))
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Australia), Department of Health (trading as WA Health) (Western Australia), Royal Perth Hospital (RPH)
1/04/13 → 31/03/17
Project: Research
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Symptoms of depression and risk of emergency department visits among people aged 70 years and over
Dwyer, R. (Leading Author), Jachno, K., Tran, T., Owen, A., Layton, N., Collyer, T., Kirkman, M., Lowthian, J., Hammarberg, K., McNeil, J. J., Woods, R. L., Berk, M. & Fisher, J., 5 Feb 2024, In: BMC Public Health. 24, 1, 11 p., 385.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus) -
“Connect Local”: protocol for the evaluation of a codesigned whole of community approach to promote social connection in older adults
Ogrin, R., Robinson, E., Rendell, K., Alrababah, S., Fineberg, D., Fiddes, K., Yerolemou, A., Lim, M. H., Engel, L. & Lowthian, J. A., 2024, In: Frontiers in Public Health. 12, 15 p., 1342562.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Correction: A mixed methods process evaluation of a person-centred falls prevention program (BMC Health Services Research, (2019), 19, 1, (906), 10.1186/s12913-019-4614-z)
Morris, R. L., Hill, K. D., Ackerman, I. N., Ayton, D., Arendts, G., Brand, C., Cameron, P., Etherton-Beer, C. D., Flicker, L., Hill, A. M., Hunter, P., Lowthian, J. A., Morello, R., Nyman, S. R., Redfern, J., Smit, D. V. & Barker, A. L., Dec 2023, In: BMC Health Services Research. 23, 1, 695.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate › Other › peer-review
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Social isolation, social support and loneliness as independent concepts, and their relationship with health-related quality of life among older women
Freak-Poli, R., Ryan, J., Tran, T., Owen, A., McHugh Power, J., Berk, M., Stocks, N., Gonzalez-Chica, D., Lowthian, J. A., Fisher, J. & Byles, J., 2022, In: Aging & Mental Health. 26, 7, p. 1335-1344 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
70 Citations (Scopus) -
The association between polypharmacy, frailty and disability-free survival in community-dwelling healthy older individuals
Ekram, A. R. M. S., Woods, R. L., Ryan, J., Espinoza, S. E., Gilmartin-Thomas, J. F. M., Shah, R. C., Mehta, R., Kochar, B., Lowthian, J. A., Lockery, J., Orchard, S., Nelson, M., Fravel, M. A., Liew, D. & Ernst, M. E., Jul 2022, In: Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. 101, 9 p., 104694.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
10 Citations (Scopus)