Project Team
Project Director - Dr Janet Guthrie
Database Manager/Fieldwork Supervisor - Ms. Corry Garamszegi
Office Administrator - Ms. Liz River
Dr Janet R Guthrie (MSc, Dip Ed, PhD) - Project Director
email: j.guthrie@medicine.unimelb.edu.au
Janet Guthrie has been the Project Director of the Melbourne Women’s Midlife Health Project since January 1996. Her PhD thesis was on Bone Health during the Menopausal Transition. Janet initiated and has been responsible for the exercise, nutrition and bone density studies in the Melbourne Women’s Midlife Health Project. She is the author of a number of papers on the menopause. She was awarded the Australian Menopause Society Travelling Scholarshop in 1993, a prize for Poster Presentation at the International Congress on the Menopause, Stockholm, Sweden in 1993, and the Organon Travelling Fellowship in 1997 for the most meritorious contribution to the field of menopause by the Australian Investigator in 1998. The paper which won this award - "A Prospective Study of Bone Loss in Menopausal Australian-born Women" was published in 'Osteoporosis International'.
From 1977-1994 Janet Guthrie was a lecturer in physiology within the Faculty of Health Sciences at La Trobe University teaching under-graduate and post-graduate students in Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational and Speech Therapy courses. From 1991-1994 she was involved in teaching in Hong Kong in a Bachelor of Nursing course run jointly with the Chinese University of Hong Kong and La Trobe University.
From 1977-1994 Janet Guthrie was a lecturer in physiology within the Faculty of Health Sciences at La Trobe University teaching under-graduate and post-graduate students in Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational and Speech Therapy courses. From 1991-1994 she was involved in teaching in Hong Kong in a Bachelor of Nursing course run jointly with the Chinese University of Hong Kong and La Trobe University.
In 1986 Janet was involved in research on mechanisms of genetic diseases at the Murdoch Institute. From 1964 to 1967 she was a research assistant in the areas of immunology and cardiac physiology at the Walter and Eliza hall Institute and the Baker Medical Research Institute in Melbourne.
Ms. Emma Dudley - Statistician
email: e.dudley@medicine.unimelb.edu.au
Emma Dudley graduated from Monash University in 1991, with an Honours degree in Statistics. After graduating, she worked for 2 years as a statistical analyst at The Higher Education Advisory and Research Unit at Monash University. She joined the Midlife Project in 1993 and is now a co-author of many peer-reviewed articles on the menopause. Emma completed a Graduate Diploma in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from The University of Melbourne in 1995. She is currently developing appropriate statistical techniques for longitudinal data with the Projects' statistical advisors Prof. John Hopper and Prof. Philippe Lehert.
Emma has recently won a number or awards including the Ayerst/Wyeth Travel grant from the International Menopause Society to attend the 8th International Congress on the Menopause, Sydney in 1996; The Ciba award for best published paper in the field of menopause research as co-author on "The endocrinology of the menopausal transition: a cross sectional study of a population-based sample. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1995; 80(12):3537-45.; the Travel grant from Organon to attend the 3rd Australasian Menopause Society Meeting in Cairns, Australia, 1999; and the 'IMS Poster Award' at The 9th International Menopause Society World Congress on the Menopause in 1999, Yokohama, Japan.
Ms. Corry Garamszegi - Senior Research Assistant/ Database Manager/ Fieldwork Supervisor MWH SRN
email: c.garamszegi@medicine.unimelb.edu.au
Corry Garamszegi has been the field work supervisor and database administrator of the Melbourne Midlife Health Project for the duration of the longitudinal study. She has a background in women's health, nursing and in computer programming. Corry completed her Masters of Women's Health in 1997. She is also the Personal Research Assistant for Professor Lorraine Dennerstein. Corry recently was a recipient of an Eli Lilly New Investigators Travel Grant which went towards travel to the 9th International Congress on the Menopause in Japan in 1999.
Ms. Liz River - Office Administrator
email: e.river@medicine.unimelb.edu.au
Contact Details for the Melbourne Women's Midlife Health Project
Office for Gender and Health
Department of Psychiatry
The University of Melbourne
6th Floor Charles Connibere Building
Royal Melbourne Hospital, VIC. 3050
AUSTRALIA
Telephone Number: +61 3 9344 4520
Fax Number: +61 3 9 3444127
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