Dr Carolina Weller - Researcher Profile

Senior Research Fellow

Address

School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Monash University

Biography

Dr Carolina Weller is a NHMRC/Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation and Development (PHCRED) fellow in the School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine (SPHPM) based at the Alfred Hospital. Carolina is an emergency nurse who completed her PhD in Epidemiology in 2011 investigating interventions to improve quality of care for people with venous leg ulcers. Her research interests are in clinical epidemiology, evidence based practice, health services research including patient safety, primary health care integrated services, randomised controlled trials and translational research.

Carolina's past career appointments have included clinical consultant, researcher, health policy advisor and academic. She is involved in developing and testing interventions to improve patient safety and quality of care for people with chronic wounds. She also conducts research to evaluate complex interventions to improve health service coordination.

Carolina coordinates and teaches units in the Bachelor of Health Sciences and Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences. She has extensive experience in teaching and course coordination in Evidence based practice, Quantitative Research designs and methods, Wound management at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is currently the SPHPM Early Career Research (ECR) coordinator.

Carolina is the ECR representative of Australian Wound and Tissue Repair Society, a founding member of the NHMRC venous ulcer guideline development advisory group, a member of theCouncil of Australian Governments Long Stay Older Patients' Advisory Group (skin integrity), an expert panel member on Therapeutic Guidelines wound group and advisor to Department of Health Victorian Wound Management Project  Group.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2012
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2012
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE OF HIGHER EDUATION
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2005
MASTER OF EDUCATION
Institution: RMIT
Year awarded: 2001
BACHELOR OF NURSING
Institution: RMIT
Year awarded: 1994