Overview
Background
Professor Clair Sullivan is an internationally-recognised leading practising and academic clinical informatician who helps drive digital health transformation in Queensland and globally.
Clair is the Director of the new Queensland Digital Health Centre within the Centre for Health Research at The University of Queensland.
A specialist endocrinologist, Clair graduated with Honours in Medicine from The University of Queensland and earned a Research Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Leeds. In 2014, Clair began a parallel career in the emerging field of digital health and has held significant leadership roles in digital health practice and governance across government and academia. Her work is regularly translated into practice and informs policy in Australia and globally.
Clair was appointed Associate Professor of Medicine in Clinical Informatics at UQ and is an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology and an Adjunct Professor, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
She is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Australian College of Health Informatics and the Australasian Institute of Digital Health.
Clair serves on several national advisory boards for digital health. She is the recipient of several awards including the 2021 Premier’s Award for Excellence for her team’s work on the digital response to COVID-19 and the 2022 Telstra Brilliant Connected Women in Digital Health Award.
She has generated over $30M in grant funding and has deep collaborations with government and industry. She is ranked in the top 1% of Medical Informatics researchers globally.
Availability
- Professor Clair Sullivan is:
- Not available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and Medical Science, The University of Queensland
- Doctoral (Research) of Medicine, University of Leeds
- Australasian College of Health Informatics, Australasian College of Health Informatics
- Australasian Institute of Digital Health, Australasian Institute of Digital Health
- Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Works
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2023
Journal Article
Facilitators and barriers to implementing electronic patient-reported outcome and experience measures in a health care setting: a systematic review
Glenwright, Ben G., Simmich, Joshua, Cottrell, Michelle, O'Leary, Shaun P., Sullivan, Clair, Pole, Jason D. and Russell, Trevor (2023). Facilitators and barriers to implementing electronic patient-reported outcome and experience measures in a health care setting: a systematic review. Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 7 (1) 13, 1-14. doi: 10.1186/s41687-023-00554-2
2023
Journal Article
Show me the money: how do we justify spending health care dollars on digital health?
Woods, Leanna, Eden, Rebekah, Canfell, Oliver J., Nguyen, Kim‐Huong, Comans, Tracy and Sullivan, Clair (2023). Show me the money: how do we justify spending health care dollars on digital health?. Medical Journal of Australia, 218 (2), 53-57. doi: 10.5694/mja2.51799
2023
Journal Article
The typing is on the wall: Australia’s healthcare future needs a digitally capable workforce
Woods, Leanna, Janssen, Anna, Robertson, Samantha, Morgan, Clare, Butler-Henderson, Kerryn, Burton-Jones, Andrew and Sullivan, Clair (2023). The typing is on the wall: Australia’s healthcare future needs a digitally capable workforce. Australian Health Review, 47 (5), 553-558. doi: 10.1071/ah23142
2022
Journal Article
The digital transformation journey of a large Australian hospital: a teaching case
Eden, Rebekah, Burton-Jones, Andrew, Donovan, Raelene, Staib, Andrew, Ballantine, Cameron, McKavanagh, Daniel and Sullivan, Clair (2022). The digital transformation journey of a large Australian hospital: a teaching case. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 51 (1) 25, 842-865. doi: 10.17705/1CAIS.05134
2022
Journal Article
Which one? A suggested approach for evaluating digital health maturity models
Woods, Leanna, Eden, Rebekah, Duncan, Rhona, Kodiyattu, Zack, Macklin, Sophie and Sullivan, Clair (2022). Which one? A suggested approach for evaluating digital health maturity models. Frontiers in Digital Health, 4 1045685, 1045685. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2022.1045685
2022
Journal Article
Real-world data for precision public health of noncommunicable diseases: a scoping review
Canfell, Oliver J., Kodiyattu, Zack, Eakin, Elizabeth, Burton-Jones, Andrew, Wong, Ides, Macaulay, Caroline and Sullivan, Clair (2022). Real-world data for precision public health of noncommunicable diseases: a scoping review. BMC Public Health, 22 (1) 2166, 2166. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14452-7
2022
Journal Article
PREVIDE: A Qualitative Study to Develop a Decision-Making Framework (PREVention decIDE) for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention in Healthcare Organisations
Canfell, Oliver J., Davidson, Kamila, Sullivan, Clair, Eakin, Elizabeth E. and Burton-Jones, Andrew (2022). PREVIDE: A Qualitative Study to Develop a Decision-Making Framework (PREVention decIDE) for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention in Healthcare Organisations. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (22) 15285, 1-18. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192215285
2022
Journal Article
Evaluating digital health capability at scale using the digital health indicator
Woods, Leanna, Eden, Rebekah, Pearce, Andrew, Wong, Yu Ching Ides, Jayan, Lakshmi, Green, Damian, McNeil, Keith and Sullivan, Clair (2022). Evaluating digital health capability at scale using the digital health indicator. Applied Clinical Informatics, 13 (5), 991-1001. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-1757554
2022
Journal Article
Understanding the digital disruption of health care: an ethnographic study of real-time multidisciplinary clinical behavior in a new digital hospital
Canfell, Oliver J, Meshkat, Yasaman, Kodiyattu, Zack, Engstrom, Teyl, Chan, Wilkin, Mifsud, Jayden, Pole, Jason D., Byrne, Martin, Raders, Ella Van and Sullivan, Clair (2022). Understanding the digital disruption of health care: an ethnographic study of real-time multidisciplinary clinical behavior in a new digital hospital. Applied Clinical Informatics, 13 (5), 1079-1091. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-1758482
2022
Journal Article
Publicly subsidised smoking cessation medicines in times of COVID-19 in Australia: an interrupted time seriesanalysis
Baliunas, Dolly, Gartner, Coral , Hollingworth, Samantha A. , Sullivan, Clair , Comans, Tracy and Pole, Jason D. (2022). Publicly subsidised smoking cessation medicines in times of COVID-19 in Australia: an interrupted time seriesanalysis. Drug and Alcohol Review, 42 (1), 225-232. doi: 10.1111/dar.13557
2022
Journal Article
The effect of digitisation on the safe management of anticoagulants
Austin, Jodie Ann, Barras, Michael, Woods, Leanna Sarah and Sullivan, Clair (2022). The effect of digitisation on the safe management of anticoagulants. Applied Clinical Informatics, 13 (04), 845-856. doi: 10.1055/a-1910-4339
2022
Journal Article
A comparison of leximancer semi-automated content analysis to manual content analysis: a healthcare exemplar using emotive transcripts of COVID-19 hospital staff interactive webcasts
Engstrom, Teyl, Strong, Jenny, Sullivan, Clair and Pole, Jason D. (2022). A comparison of leximancer semi-automated content analysis to manual content analysis: a healthcare exemplar using emotive transcripts of COVID-19 hospital staff interactive webcasts. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21, 160940692211189. doi: 10.1177/16094069221118993
2022
Journal Article
Mapping progress in intravascular catheter quality surveillance: an Australian case study of electronic medical record data linkage
Schults, Jessica A., Ball, Daner L., Sullivan, Clair, Rossow, Nick, Ray-Barruel, Gillian, Walker, Rachel M., Stantic, Bela and Rickard, Claire M. (2022). Mapping progress in intravascular catheter quality surveillance: an Australian case study of electronic medical record data linkage. Frontiers in Medicine, 9 962130, 1-10. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.962130
2022
Journal Article
Virtual engagement of families in the intensive care unit during COVID-19: a descriptive survey of family members of patients and health care workers
Levido, Annabel, Clement, Pierre, Gregory, Bryan, Morrey, Helena, Kirrane, Marianne, Stott, Adam, Sullivan, Clair, Jackman, Kristy, Brown, Jessica, Doubrovsky, Anna and Coyer, Fiona (2022). Virtual engagement of families in the intensive care unit during COVID-19: a descriptive survey of family members of patients and health care workers. Telemedicine and E-Health, 29 (3), 466-472. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2022.0071
2022
Journal Article
The influence of wearables on healthcare outcomes in chronic disease: a systematic review
Mattison, Graeme, Canfell, Oliver, Forrester, Douglas, Dobbins, Chelsea, Smith, Daniel, Töyräs, Juha and Sullivan, Clair (2022). The influence of wearables on healthcare outcomes in chronic disease: a systematic review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24 (7) e36690, 1-40. doi: 10.2196/36690
2022
Journal Article
Machine learning models for diabetes management in acute care using electronic medical records: a systematic review
Kamel Rahimi, Amir, Canfell, Oliver J., Chan, Wilkin, Sly, Benjamin, Pole, Jason D., Sullivan, Clair and Shrapnel, Sally (2022). Machine learning models for diabetes management in acute care using electronic medical records: a systematic review. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 162 104758, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2022.104758
2022
Book Chapter
Driving impact through big data utilization and analytics in the context of a Learning Health System
De Silva, Kushan, Enticott, Joanne, Graydon, Cameron, Teede, Helena and Sullivan, Clair (2022). Driving impact through big data utilization and analytics in the context of a Learning Health System. Big Data Analytics for Healthcare: Datasets, Techniques, Life Cycles, Management, and Applications. (pp. 13-22) edited by Pantea Keikhosrokiani . New York, NY, United States: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-323-91907-4.00019-4
2022
Journal Article
Precision public health for non-communicable diseases: an emerging strategic roadmap and multinational use cases
Canfell, Oliver J., Davidson, Kamila, Woods, Leanna, Sullivan, Clair, Cocoros, Noelle M., Klompas, Michael, Zambarano, Bob, Eakin, Elizabeth, Littlewood, Robyn and Burton-Jones, Andrew (2022). Precision public health for non-communicable diseases: an emerging strategic roadmap and multinational use cases. Frontiers in Public Health, 10 854525, 1-10. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.854525
2022
Journal Article
Synthesizing dimensions of digital maturity in hospitals: systematic review
Duncan, Rhona, Eden, Rebekah, Woods, Leanna, Wong, Ides and Sullivan, Clair (2022). Synthesizing dimensions of digital maturity in hospitals: systematic review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24 (3) e32994, e32994. doi: 10.2196/32994
2022
Journal Article
Data sources for precision public health of obesity: a scoping review, evidence map and use case in Queensland, Australia
Canfell, Oliver J., Davidson, Kamila, Sullivan, Clair, Eakin, Elizabeth and Burton-Jones, Andrew (2022). Data sources for precision public health of obesity: a scoping review, evidence map and use case in Queensland, Australia. BMC Public Health, 22 (1) 584, 584. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-12939-x
Funding
Current funding
Supervision
Availability
- Professor Clair Sullivan is:
- Not available for supervision
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
DIFFERENCE
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Jason Pole, Dr Elton Henry Savio Lobo
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Doctor Philosophy
Digital Diabetes
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Mahnaz Samadbeik, Dr Elton Henry Savio Lobo
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Doctor Philosophy
Care of patients with diabetes, in the digital hospital environment: From patient level to systems approach
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sally Shrapnel
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Doctor Philosophy
digital hospital benefits: a shift to value
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Mahnaz Samadbeik
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Doctor Philosophy
How can we streamline the extraction and validation of data from EMRs to inform a learning health care system?
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Mr Anton Van Der Vegt, Professor Jason Pole
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Doctor Philosophy
How can we streamline the extraction and validation of data from EMRs to inform a learning health care system?
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Mr Anton Van Der Vegt, Professor Jason Pole
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Doctor Philosophy
Evaluating antenatal vaccines and vaccination programs: filling evidence gaps in uptake, safety, effectiveness and the future surveillance of maternal vaccinations in Australia- The VaxiMums evaluation project.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Susan Jordan, Dr Amalie Dyda, Dr Lisa McHugh
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Doctor Philosophy
Re-analysing existing genomic data to increase the diagnostic yield of genetic tests
Associate Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence to Improve Clinical Outcomes in Hospitals
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Oliver Canfell, Professor Jason Pole, Associate Professor Sally Shrapnel
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Doctor Philosophy
Sample sub-group algorithm bias analysis for machine learning evaluation in the clinical domain
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Andrew Mallett, Professor Guido Zuccon, Mr Anton Van Der Vegt, Professor Emma McBryde
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Doctor Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence to Improve Clinical Outcomes in Hospitals
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Oliver Canfell, Professor Jason Pole, Associate Professor Sally Shrapnel
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Doctor Philosophy
Predicting adverse diabetes events in hospitals using machine learning
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sally Shrapnel, Professor Jason Pole
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Master Philosophy
Examining the current state of digital health education and training in Australia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Nigel Armfield, Dr Sisira Edirippulige
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Doctor Philosophy
NINA national infrastructure for digital health
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sebastiano Barbieri
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Doctor Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence to Improve Clinical Outcomes in Hospitals
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Oliver Canfell, Professor Jason Pole, Associate Professor Sally Shrapnel
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Doctor Philosophy
Digital Health Intervention-Based Integrated Care Model for Type 2 Diabetes
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lee Woods
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Doctor Philosophy
Digital Health Intervention-Based Integrated Care Model for Type 2 Diabetes
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lee Woods
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Doctor Philosophy
Using technology to efficiently analyse qualitative healthcare data at scale
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lee Woods, Professor Jason Pole
Completed supervision
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
The Emergency Department (ED)-Inpatient Interface: improving the care of patients requiring emergency admission to hospital
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Andrew Burton-Jones
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2025
Doctor Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence to Improve Clinical Outcomes in Hospitals
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Oliver Canfell, Professor Jason Pole, Associate Professor Sally Shrapnel
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Re-analysing existing genomic data to increase the diagnostic yield of genetic tests
Associate Advisor
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Exploring the impact of electronic medication management on the safety and quality of therapeutic anticoagulation
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lee Woods, Professor Michael Barras
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