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Health Sciences profile

Dr Linda Gulliver

PositionSenior Lecturer and Convenor Integrated Case Programme, Early Learning in Medicine.
QualificationsBSc PhD NZRN/ON
Research summaryMedical Education, Quality Assurance, Assessment, Global health, Estrogenic effects (science)
Teaching

Dr Gulliver convenes the Integrated Case Programme for Early Learning in Medicine at the Otago Medical School. Apart from convening and teaching second and third year medical students, Linda is also the Dunedin Medical Campus Lead for Interprofessional Education. This role sees her in collaboration with several different disciplines undertaking Health Professional Education to expand and develop inter-professional learning opportunities.
Memberships

  • MB ChB Medical Education Research and Evaluation Sub-Committee, Chair (MEREC)
  • MB ChB Curriculum Committee (MCC)
  • MB ChB Medical Education Research Committee (MER)
  • ELM Student Progress Committee (SPC)
  • ELM Assessment Sub-Committee (EASC)
  • ELM Module Convenors' Committee
  • ELM Programme Convenors' and Operations Sub-Committee
  • MB ChB Radiology working Group
  • ELM SAQ Exam Sub-Committee
  • ELM Curriculum Sub-Committee (CSC)
  • Medical Education Research Funding panel
  • Interprofessional Research group
  • Division of Interprofessional Education Advisory Group (DIPPAA)
  • Interprofessional Education Leaders Group (Division of Health Sciences)
  • New Zealand Family Planning Association
Clinical

Dr Gulliver is a New Zealand Registered Nurse. She practiced for 20 years both in the United States and NZ in all specialties until embarking on a science and thereafter a medical education career.

Research

Dr Gulliver's main research interests revolve around medical education quality assurance (e.g. in Infection Prevention and Control), assessment, and Interprofessional Education for collaborative practice. She aims, through research in these areas, to grow the evidence base for developing aspects of the medical and health professional curricula.

Her PhD research focused on the short- and longer-term effects of estradiol on the ovarian surface epithelium relevant to the development of ovarian epithelial cancer. Dr Gulliver has continued collaborations within this field and this has involved her in research groups looking at global health issues such as the effects of low dose mixtures of chemicals in the environment and their potential for cancer causation, and how health status alters pituitary function and reproductive status in a cytokine-dependent manner.

Additional details

Dr Gulliver works within the Centre for Early Learning in Medicine (years 2 and 3 of MB ChB Otago).

Early Learning in Medicine (ELM)

Publications

Gulliver, L., Brooks, H., Kinniburgh, L., Aburn, R., Stodart, J., & Rudland, J. (2020). Health professional education and practice in preventing and controlling infections in New Zealand: A review to inform strategies for enhancing practitioner competencies and patient safety. Integrated Healthcare Journal, 2(1), e000034. doi: 10.1136/ihj-2019-000034

Timaxian, C., Raymond-Letron, I., Bouclier, C., Gulliver, L., Le Corre, L., Chébli, K., … Lazennec, G. (2020). The health status alters the pituitary function and reproduction of mice in a Cxcr2-dependent manner. Life Science Alliance, 3(3), e201900599. doi: 10.26508/lsa.201900599

Gulliver, L. S. M. (2019). In vivo quantitation of estrogen receptor β subtype expression in ovarian surface epithelium using immunofluorescence profiling and confocal microscopy. In M. Z. Badr (Ed.), Nuclear receptors: Methods and experimental protocols: Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1966). (pp. 27-38). New York, NY: Humana Press. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9195-2_4

Gulliver, L. S. M. (2017). Xenobiotics and the glucocorticoid receptor [Invited review article]. Toxicology & Applied Pharmacology, 319, 69-79. doi: 10.1016/j.taap.2017.02.003

Goodson, III, W. H., Lowe, L., Carpenter, D. O., Gilbertson, M., Manaf Ali, A., Lopez de Cerain Salsamendi, A., … Gulliver, L., … Hu, Z. (2015). Assessing the carcinogenic potential of low-dose exposures to chemical mixtures in the environment: The challenge ahead. Carcinogenesis, 36(Suppl. 1), S254-S296. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgv039

Gulliver, L. S. M. (2019). In vivo quantitation of estrogen receptor β subtype expression in ovarian surface epithelium using immunofluorescence profiling and confocal microscopy. In M. Z. Badr (Ed.), Nuclear receptors: Methods and experimental protocols: Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1966). (pp. 27-38). New York, NY: Humana Press. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9195-2_4

Chapter in Book - Research

Gulliver, L., Brooks, H., Kinniburgh, L., Aburn, R., Stodart, J., & Rudland, J. (2020). Health professional education and practice in preventing and controlling infections in New Zealand: A review to inform strategies for enhancing practitioner competencies and patient safety. Integrated Healthcare Journal, 2(1), e000034. doi: 10.1136/ihj-2019-000034

Journal - Research Article

Timaxian, C., Raymond-Letron, I., Bouclier, C., Gulliver, L., Le Corre, L., Chébli, K., … Lazennec, G. (2020). The health status alters the pituitary function and reproduction of mice in a Cxcr2-dependent manner. Life Science Alliance, 3(3), e201900599. doi: 10.26508/lsa.201900599

Journal - Research Article

Gulliver, L. S. M. (2017). Xenobiotics and the glucocorticoid receptor [Invited review article]. Toxicology & Applied Pharmacology, 319, 69-79. doi: 10.1016/j.taap.2017.02.003

Journal - Research Article

Engström, W., Darbre, P., Eriksson, S., Gulliver, L., Hultman, T., Karamouzis, M. V., … Bisson, W. H. (2015). The potential for chemical mixtures from the environment to enable the cancer hallmark of sustained proliferative signalling. Carcinogenesis, 36(Suppl. 1), S38-S60. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgv030

Journal - Research Article

Goodson, III, W. H., Lowe, L., Carpenter, D. O., Gilbertson, M., Manaf Ali, A., Lopez de Cerain Salsamendi, A., … Gulliver, L., … Hu, Z. (2015). Assessing the carcinogenic potential of low-dose exposures to chemical mixtures in the environment: The challenge ahead. Carcinogenesis, 36(Suppl. 1), S254-S296. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgv039

Journal - Research Article

Gulliver, L. S. M. (2013). Estradiol synthesis and metabolism and risk of ovarian cancer in older women taking prescribed or plant-derived estrogen supplementation. Journal of Steroids & Hormonal Science, S12. doi: 10.4172/2157-7536.S12-003

Journal - Research Article

Gulliver, L. S. M., & Hurst, P. R. (2012). Repeat estradiol exposure differentially regulates protein expression patterns for estrogen receptor and E-cadherin in older mouse ovarian surface epithelium: Implications for replacement and adjuvant hormone therapies? Steroids, 77(6), 674-685. doi: 10.1016/j.steroids.2012.02.015

Journal - Research Article

Gulliver, L. S. M., & Hurst, P. R. (2011). Novel approaches to quantify estradiol-induced loss of ERβ1 protein in older mouse ovarian surface epithelium: New tools to assess the role of ER protein subtypes in predisposing to ovarian epithelial cancer? Hormones & Cancer, 2(4), 204-213. doi: 10.1007/s12672-011-0077-3

Journal - Research Article

Bardy, G. H., Lee, K. L., Mark, D. B., Poole, J. E., Toff, W. D., Tonkin, A. M., … for the HAT Investigators, including Wilkins, G., & Gulliver, L. (2008). Home use of automated external defibrillators for sudden cardiac arrest. New England Journal of Medicine, 358, 1793-1804. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0801651

Journal - Research Article

Bardy, G. H., Lee, K. L., Mark, D. B., Poole, J. E., Toff, W. D., Tonkin, A. M., … for the HAT Investigators, including Wilkins, G., Gulliver, L., & Oskam-Schmidt, R. (2008). Rationale and design of the Home Automatic External Defibrillator Trial (HAT). American Heart Journal, 155(3), 445-454. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.12.008

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