Simone is the Director of Education for the School of Clinical Sciences and Director of Monash Centre for Scholarship in Health Education (MCSHE). She leads quality and innovation in education for health professions. She is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators and on the editorial board of their journal, Focus on Health Professional Education.

Simone is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian, registered with Dietitians Australia, and has over 20 years experience as a clinical dietitian working across all major clinical areas including intensive care, surgery and endocrinology.

Simone was awarded a national Teaching Excellence award in 2018 by the Australian Awards for University Teaching; and in 2017 the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence and the Dean's Award for Excellence in Education (Quality of Teaching), demonstrating her commitment to student training.

Simone is the Director of the Master of Health Professions Education and aims to support the future leaders in clinical and health education.

Simone uses qualitative and mixed methods methodologies in her research across a range of topics. Current research includes work-integrated learning and assessment, exploring the involvement of patients and end-users in education, using design thinking in research, graduate outcomes in dietetics and approaches to care for people with high BMIs in acute care settings.

Other research has included nutrition and inflammation, communicating nutrition messages to the public, healthy lifestyle programs for children and adolescents and nutrition and wound healing.