Contact Details
- Position
- Senior Lecturer
- Department
- Department of Medicine (Wellington)
- Qualifications
- NZDipPhys, MHealSc, PhD
- Research summary
- Aviation medicine
Research
Julie Myers is a Senior Lecturer and Course Director Research, and the Masters Co-ordinator for the Occupational and Aviation Medicine Unit (OAMU). She also teaches the paper AVME 785 Research Methods. Her professional background is Physiotherapy and she has a Research Master’s Degree endorsed in Rehabilitation.
Julie has recently completed her PhD, for which she undertook a series of studies focused on understanding the extent and consequences of fatigue-related performance decrements critical care clinicians, particularly those involved in air ambulance transfer. She has adapted methods for assessing clinicians’ non-technical skills as a measure of their clinical performance; and has evaluated the impact of fatigue on the clinical performance and safety of critical care clinicians. She is also interested in Occupational Health issues and measurement of health and quality of life.
Research expertise and interest
I am currently undertaking a series of studies focused on understanding the extent and consequences of fatigue-related performance decrements in clinicians undertaking intensive-care air transfer of patients. Most recent work has focused on methods for measuring clinical performance such as the evaluation of the non-technical skills of intensive care flight clinicians; as well as the impact clinician fatigue has on their performance and safety. I am interested in clinical workload, training, and fatigue risk management for aeromedical transport clinicians. My professional background is Physiotherapy, and I have a Research Master’s Degree endorsed in Rehabilitation. While most research I have undertaken and supervised recently has focused on issues in Aeromedical Retrieval and Transport, and the health of flight crew, I am also interested in Occupational Health issues and measurement of health and quality of life.
Publications
Myers, J. A., Psirides, A., Hathaway, K., & Larsen, P. D. (2012). Air transport by the Wellington Flight Service: A descriptive analysis of interhospital transfers over a 5-year period in the Wellington region of New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal, 125(1351). Retrieved from http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal Journal - Research Article
Mahony, P. H., Myers, J. A., Larsen, P. D., Powell, D. M., & Griffiths, R. F. (2011). Symptom-based categorization of in-flight passenger medical incidents. Aviation, Space, & Environmental Medicine, 82(12), 1131-1137. doi: 10.3357/ASEM.3099.2011 Journal - Research Article
Zaidi, M. A., Griffiths, R., Beshyah, S. A., Myers, J., & Zaidi, M. A. (2012). Blood and body fluid exposure related knowledge, attitude and practices of hospital based health care providers in United Arab Emirates. Safety & Health at Work, 3(3), 209-215. doi: 10.5491/SHAW.2012.3.3.209 Journal - Research Article
Myers, J. A., McPherson, K. M., Taylor, W. J., Weatherall, M., & McNaughton, H. K. (2003). Duration of condition is unrelated to health-state valuation on the DuroQoL. Clinical Rehabilitation, 17, 209-215. Journal - Research Article
Taylor, W. J., Myers, J., Simpson, R. T., McPherson, K. M., & Weatherall, M. (2004). Quality of life of people with rheumatoid arthritis as measured by the World Health Organization Quality of Life instrument, short form (WHOQOL-BREF): Score distributions and psychometric properties. Arthritis & Rheumatism, 51(3), 350-357. Journal - Research Article