Associate Professor Rebecca Disler is an Australian Research Council, Discovery Early Career Fellow, and clinical researcher based across Monash University. A/Prof Disler leads a program of research on advanced chronic disease, and is funded by a prestigious ARC Fellowship to address end-stage disease across rural Australia.

 

As Fellow of the American Thoracic Society (1 of 2 Aust nurses) and Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (1 of 3 nurses), and author of several Cochrane reviews, her work has been included in multiple international and national guidelines, including NICE UK and global GOLD strategies. A/Prof Disler sits on the Editorial Board for American Thoracic Society Scholar and the ATS Program Committee (Nursing). She is member of the national Research Committee and Convenor of the Symptom Support and Palliative Care special interest group for Thoracic Society Australia and New Zealand, and previously TSANZ Victorian Executive Board member (2018-2021) and TSANZ National Conference Organising Committee (2019-2021).

 

A/Prof Disler has been awarded >$2.7 million in competitive funding, including a recent competitive grant from the Bethlehem Griffiths Research Foundation to co-design a new model of rural end of life care. A/Prof Disler is published in leading chronic disease, palliative care, and telehealth journals (40% in top 10% of journals), her research places her as within the top 1.6% of >94,707 chronic lung disease researchers globally (http://expertscape.com). With +1000 citations and an H-index of 17 and i10 index of 24 (GS) her research is exemplary for discipline and early-career stage. A/Prof Disler's research career builds on her career as a clinical nurse and Respiratory Specialist Nurse across acute and community sectors in Australia and the UK.