Current PhD research
- Art within the art of medicine; exploring the use and impact of health practitioners’ drawings in a consultation
S Murton
Supervised by Professor John Nacey (Department of Surgery and Anaesthesia), Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - The effects to the doctor of administering euthanasia
J Winters
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye, (Department of General Practice and Rural Health), Associate Professor Neil Pickering, Dr Simon Walker (Bioethics Centre) - Impact of personalised care plans on delivery of longterm condition care
A Askerud
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye, Dr Fiona Doolan-Noble (Department of General Practice and Rural Health), Associate Professor Eileen McKinlay (Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice - Social responsibility of health care graduates: perceptions of current students
Fathimath Hussain
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye,, Professor Tim Stokes (Department of General Practice and Rural Health), Research Associate Professor Claire Cameron (Biostatistics Centre) - The moral economy of market-driven vs socialised healthcare – a comparative analysis of moral capital in the healthcare systems of Germany, New Zealand, and the United States
Patrick Bartosch
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health), Professor Peter Crampton (Centre for Hauora Māori) - Ethnic Chinese Experiences of Mental Health Therapy in New Zealand
Denzel Chung
Supervised by Dr Katherine Hall, Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health), Professor Jing-Bao Nei (Bioethics Centre) - Factors influencing ageing well amongst older New Zealand men: A study of urban and rural areas of Otago and Southland Regions
Hui Xiao
Supervised by Professor David Baxter (Centre for Health, Activity, and Rehabilitation Research, School of Physiotherapy), Dr Fiona Doolan-Noble (Department of General Practice and Rural Health), and Dr Lizhou Liu (Centre for Health, Activity, and Rehabilitation Research, School of Physiotherapy) - Improving patient safety in New Zealand general practice
Dr Sharon Leitch PhD (Health Research Council Clinical Training Fellowship)
Supervised by Professor Tim Stokes (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) and Associate Professor Alesha Smith (School of Pharmacy) - Exploring and improving hospital care quality for New Zealand rural communities
Dr Carol Atmore (DSM Clinical Research PhD Scholarship)
Supervised by Professor Tim Stokes (Department of General Practice and Rural Health), Professor Robin Gauld (Otago Business School), Mr Andrew Gray (Department of Preventive and Social Medicine), and Professor Sue Dovey (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - Investigation of clinical pharmacy activities in a primary care general practice
Yadav Sivamanoj
Supervised by Associate Professor Rhiannon Braund (School of Pharmacy / Department of Preventive and Social Medicine) and Professor Tim Stokes (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - An exploratory study of companion pet owner perceptions of euthanasia
Paula Whitelock
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) and Professor Ruth Fitzgerald (Department of Anthropology)
Current Master's research
- A formative evaluation study of the implementation of the New Zealand Early Warning Score (NZEWS) in a rural hospital.
Lisa Campbell
Supervised by Ms Virginia Maskill, Centre for Post-Graduate Nursing Studies, University of Otago, Christchurch and Dr Fiona Doolan-Noble, Department of General Practice and Rural Health, University of Otago, Dunedin. - Anticipating Future Hospital Demand in the Central Otago and Queenstown Lakes Regions.
Rhonda Johnson
Supervised by Dr Lincoln Wood, Department of Management, Otago Business School, University of Otago and Dr Fiona Doolan-Noble, Department of General Practice and Rural Health, University of Otago, Dunedin. - The role of the "personal doctor" in Healthcare Home—The general practitioners’ view
Olivia Currie
Supervised by Professor Les Toop (Department of General Practice, University of Otago Christchurch) and Professor Tim Stokes (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - The impact on the Hokianga Health service of the Rural Hospital Medicine vocational scope
Dr Kati Blattner, MHealSc
Supervised by Professor Susan Dovey and Professor Tim Stokes (Department of General Practice and Rural Health)
Current BMedSc(Hons) research
- Knowing me, knowing you: The ethics of doctors' self-disclosing about personal illness to patients
Laura Bolger
Supervised by Dr Katherine Hall and Dr Martyn Williamson (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - Person-centred health care: Spiritual dimension of health
Mary Cane Demecillo
Supervised by Associate Professor Richard Egan (Department of Preventive and Social Medicine) and Associate Professor Hamish Wilson (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - What are key success factors in the development of Whānau Ora primary health care services?
Albert Laurence
Supervised by Professor Tim Stokes (Department of General Practice and Rural Health), Associate Professor Jo Baxter (Associate Dean Māori and Associate Professor of Māori Health), and Professor Peter Crampton (Division of Health Sciences)
Completed postgraduate research
- Pathways to end of life care
Jessica Young
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health), Dr Richard Egan (Department of Preventive and Social Medicine), Mr Tony Egan (Department of General Practice and Rural Health), and Dr Janine Winters (Bioethics Centre) - An investigation into coeliac disease and management in primary health care
Kristin Kenrick
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health), Professor Michael Shultz (Department of Medicine), and Professor Andrew Day (Department of Women's and Children's Health) - Investigating barriers to equitable access to maternity care in Aotearoa New Zealand
Pauline Dawson
Supervised by Associate Professor Jean Hay-Smith (Department of Women’s and Children’s Health) and Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - Discourses of professionalism in Christian General Practitioners in South Africa and Aotearoa New Zealand
Peter Franklin, PhD
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) and Professor Ruth Fitzgerald (Department of Anthropology) - Health outcomes and access following regulatory changes for Isotretinoin prescribing in New Zealand
Jenny McElroy, MHealSc
Supervised by Professor Susan Dovey (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) and Dr Alesha Smith (School of Pharmacy) - An investigation into the barriers and facilitators of acceptance, and use of Bay Navigator Pathways by general practitioners in the Western Bay of Plenty
Dr Anel Reyneke, MGP
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye and Professor Tim Stokes (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - What are the "functional social supports" and how do they impact the desire to self-harm in individuals who have a history of self-harm?
Mrs Jo Rowe, MHealSc
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye and Kirsty Murrell-McMillan (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - What’s the harm in waiting? Patient harms in the referral gap
Vimal Patel, BMedSc(Hons)
Supervised by Professor Susan Dovey (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - Use of the Ankle Brachial Pressure Index (ABPI) in a general practice over 11 years
Thomas Ding, BMedSc(Hons)
Supervised by Professor Susan Dovey and Dr Hywel Lloyd (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - Cost barriers to primary health care in New Zealand: Structure, geography, and constituency of free general practice clinics in New Zealand
Dr Lik Wei Lo, PhD
Supervised by Professor Susan Dovey (Department of General Practice and Rural Health - Primary Supervisor) and Professor Peter Crampton (Division of Health Sciences) - Study of gender roles and women's experiences in Pentecostal fundamentalism and evangelicalism in NZ and the United States
Sherrema Bower, PhD
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) and Associate Professor Ruth Fitzgerald (Department of Anthropology) - "The histology is worrying"
Dr Sarah Parker, MMedSci
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) and Jean Hay-Smith (Department of Women's and Children's Health) - Mapping the rural network using GIS
Ursula Poole, BMedSc(Hons)
Supervised by Dr Martyn Williamson and Dr Alison Belton (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - Investigation of the experience of depression in a Tokelauan community
Dr Iain Loan, MGP
Supervised by Dr Wayne Cunningham and Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - Efficacy and safety of the TIA / stroke electronic decision support tool
Dr Anna Ranta
Supervised by Professor Susan Dovey (Department of General Practice and Rural Health - Primary Supervisor) and Professor Mark Weatherall (Rehabilitation Teaching and Research Unit, University of Otago Wellington) - Identifying discourses around general practice in medical training
Kelby Smith-Han
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health), Dr Sarah Stein (Higher Education Development Centre) and Associate Professor Ruth Fitzgerald (Department of Anthropology) - Investigating and enhancing rural communities’ existing mental health service networks
Nick Erskine, BMedSc(Hons)
Supervised by Dr Jim Ross (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) and Dr Shyamala Nada-Raja (Department of Preventive and Social Medicine) - How is decision making by whānau altered when the birth plan is repeat caesarean section?
Dr Patricia Boyd, MMedSc
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health), Associate Professor Jo Baxter (Department of Preventive and Social Medicine), and Dr Celia Devenish (Department of Women's and Children's Health) - International medical students: Factors that enhance and inhibit learning
Dr Emma Storr, MHealSc
Supervised by Professor Susan Dovey and Dr Katharine Wallis (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - Developing a culture of safety: Regulation or education? To help, or at least to do no harm
Dr Katharine Wallis
Supervised by Professor Susan Dovey (Department of General Practice and Rural Health - Primary Supervisor), Professor John Dawson (Faculty of Law), Professor John Campbell (Dunedin School of Medicine), and Professor Grant Gillett (Bioethics Centre) - Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: Diagnosis and intervention in New Zealand
Dr Kerryn Bagley
Supervised by Associate Professor Ruth Fitzgerald (Department of Anthropology) and Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - Spirituality in New Zealand hospices
Dr Richard Egan
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye and Adjunct Professor Rod McLeod (Department of General Practice and Rural Health), Professor Rob McGee and Associate Professor Jo Baxter (Department of Preventive and Social Medicine) - Palliative care in the community
Dr Roslyne McKechnie
Supervised by Adjunct Professor Rod McLeod and Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - Sociological and ethical examination of health screening in the USA
Dr Yvonne Lau
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) and Professor Don Evans (Bioethics Centre) - IT standards development
Dr Tim Gardner, MGP
Supervised by Professor Susan Dovey (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - Deaf culture
Dr Nina Sawicki, MGP
Supervised by Professor Susan Dovey (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - General practitioners and CAM
Dr Marion Upsdell, MGP
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - GP uptake of green prescriptions
Ms Nicola Maw, MHealSc
Supervised by Associate Professor Jim Reid and Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - Immunisation in primary care
B Warren, MHealSc
Supervised by Professor Susan Dovey (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - Surgical trainee decision making: Exploring, modelling, teaching, and learning
Dr Sarah Rennie
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health); Professor Andre Van Rij and Professor Jean-Claude Theis (Department of Surgical Sciences)
Summer studentship projects
2017 - 2018
- Do adults with intellectual disabilities receive less preventative care compared to those who do not have intellectual disabilities in primary care?
Rees Guise
Supervised by Dr Fiona Doolan-Noble (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - Discourse analysis of the public debate on the End of Life Choice Bill (2017)
Isabelle Lomax-Sawyers
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - Challenges presented by "high needs" patients to primary heath care: What are the statistics?
Sharmaine Sreedhar
Supervised by Professor Tim Stokes (Department of General Practice and Rural Health)
2016 - 2017
- A study report on ten years of experience with the Rural Medical Immersion Programme of University of Otago to determine the effectiveness of the programme in encouraging the recruitment and retention of medical service providers in rural and provincial health services
Melody Curle
Supervised by Dr Branko Sijnja (Department of General Practice and Rural Health) - An exploration of the Communities of Clinical Practice of long-stay inpatients on acute medical wards in Dunedin Hospital
Fardowsa Mohamed
Supervised by Dr Martyn Williamson, Jessica Young, and Tony Egan - General Practitioners' ethical decision-making: Does being a patient themselves make a difference?
Jess Michael
Supervised by Dr Katherine Hall, Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye, and Jessica Young
2015 - 2016
- Multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and ethnicity in a New Zealand General Practice (Health Research Council Pacific Health Research Summer Studentship)
Mayur Azam
Supervised by Professor Tim Stokes and Dr Fiona Doolan-Noble
- What do general practitioners, primary care nurses, and patients think about pay for performance?
Karen Yanagimoto
Supervised by Dr Fiona Doolan-Noble and Professor Tim Stokes - Exploring communities of clinical practice from an ethnic perspective
Shona Jian
Supervised by Dr Jim Ross, Dr Martyn Williamson, Jessica Young, and Tony Egan - A case study of a rural community and their communities of clinical practice
Ursula Poole
Supervised by Dr Martyn Williamson, Dr Jim Ross, Jessica Young, and Tony Egan
2014 - 2015
- An investigation of the management of the southern diabetic population: Whether they are treated to target or given maximum intensity therapy
Rachel Eaton
Supervised by Professor Tim Stokes, Professor Rob Walker, and Dr Hywel Lloyd
2013 - 2014
- Issues regarding the quality of aged care and possible solutions as perceived by representatives of the workforce and the residents themselves
Blake Henley
Supervised by Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye - A study of the timing of outbreaks of chicken pox in children and shingles in adults
Ibrahim Al-Busaidi
Supervised by Dr Branko Sijnja - Defining what type of rural background leads to increased intention of rural practice
Stacey Goodson
Supervised by Dr Martyn Williamson and Dr Alison Belton
2012 - 2013
- How close is the match of the "rural" in medical students’ rural origin and the "rural" in rural healthcare?
Stacey Shaw
Supervised by Dr Martyn Williamson, Dr Alison Belton, and Dr Branko Sijnja - Are we missing out? Does our medical school intake reflect NZ society?
Ursula Poole
Supervised by Dr Martyn Williamson and Dr Alison Belton - How does a rural medical workforce perceive providing palliative care?
Emily Dwight
Supervised by Professor Susan Dovey and Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye - Pros, cons, and barriers to teaching RMIP students
William Parkyn
Supervised by Dr Branko Sijnja and Professor Susan Dovey - Does early treatment of shingles make a difference to outcome?
Kavita Rao
Supervised by Dr Katharine Wallis
2011 - 2012
- The outcomes of the fifth year Rural Medical Immersion Programme
Kate Margetts
Supervised by Dr Branko Sijnja - COMHEART: Community Oriented Mental Health—Engagement, Action, and Training
Shinayd van Rooy
Supervised by Dr Jim Ross - Reducing harm to patients: An evaluation of a web-based tool's potential to reduce medication errors in a residential care facility
Rachel Greenwood
Supervised by Dr Jim Ross - Media review of general practice fees 2000–2020
Louis Han
Supervised by Professor Susan Dovey - Healthcare in rural Otago and Southland: A pilot study
Aakash Chhibber
Supervised by Professor Susan Dovey - Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Otago / Southland
Jee-Eun Oh
Supervised by Professor Rob Walker and Professor Murray Tilyard
