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42 We are proud of our applied and relevant focus, and the School runs a number of public access clinics on Curtin’s Bentley campus providing students the opportunity for real-world experience.
School of Psychology and Speech Pathology ReCAP ANNUAL REPORT 2011 43 JOHN CAIRNEY John Cairney is the inaugural holder of the McMaster Family Medicine Professorship in Child Health Research. He is also an Associate Professor in the departments of Family Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences and Kinesiology at McMaster University, and a core a member of the Offord Centre for Child Studies, and the CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research. From 2005 to 2008, John held a Canada Research Chair in Psychiatric Epidemiology from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and was a also Senior Scientist in the Health Systems Research and Consulting Unit at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He was the youngest scientist to be awarded a Canada Research Chair at CAMH, and the youngest member of the Department of Psychiatry at University of Toronto to hold such a distinction. John is currently a Principal Investigator on two large, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funded studies examining the changes over time in cardiovascular risk factors (e.g. obesity, physical fitness, hypertension) in a large sample of children with coordination problems and a study that examines the association between coordination problems, depression and social anxiety in school age children. During his visit to Curtin he was a Plenary speaker at the Inaugural Annual CHIRI Conference and was a keynote speaker at the 10th Motor Control and Human Skill Conference held in Mandurah. DR PETER FISHER Dr Peter Fisher is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has published over 40 articles and book chapters on metacognitive therapy and cognitive therapy. Currently, his main research interests focus on the development and evaluation of metacognitive therapy for emotional disorders in adult mental health and physical health populations. He has lectured and conducted workshops on metacognitive therapy nationally and internationally. He currently acts as supervisor and tutor for the Metacognitive Therapy-Institute. He recently published his first book; P. Fisher & A. Wells. (2009). Metacognitive Therapy, Routledge, London. During Dr Fishers’ visit in 2011, he worked on a grant proposal with Associate Prof Clare Rees and also held a seminar and lecture on Metacognitive therapy. DR JULIE MASTERSON Julie Masterson is Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Missouri State University, where she teaches courses in phonology, language-learning disabilities, and research design. Dr Masterson is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and served as Vice President for Research and Technology for ASHA and President of the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Dr Masterson has over 150 presentations and publications in the areas of language and literacy. Her current research focuses on optimal methods for assessment and documentation of treatment outcomes and Response to Intervention, spelling skills in individuals with sensory impairments, and the relationship between phonological productions and literacy skills. DR SCOTT YARUSS Dr Scott Yaruss was a visiting PsychLife Fellow in the School of Psychology and Speech Pathology in July 2011. Dr Yaruss is Director of the MA and MS programs in Speech-language Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also co-director of the Stuttering Centre of Western Pennsylvania. He is an international expert in the areas of linguistic and motoric factors that influence the development of fluency and stuttering in children. His work is aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of people who stutter through assessment of current clinical practices and documentation of treatment outcomes. His research interests are also in the areas of treatment efficacy and evidenced based practice. Dr Yaruss has devised clinical assessment tools that are the basis for the assessments used in the Curtin University Stuttering Treatment Clinic. During his Fellowship, he conducted collaborative research with staff from the School of Psychology and Speech Pathology in the areas of psychosocial impact of stuttering in children and adolescents and treatment programs for adults who stutter. He co-authored 2 papers with Janet Beilby on the use of the OASES measurement tool in clinical populations during the Fellowship visit. He also worked with staff on counselling programs for Tertiary learners and conducted a staff seminar for the School of Psychology and Speech Pathology. Dr Yaruss conducted a seminar/workshop for undergraduate and post graduate students and community based clinicians on the topic of “Stuttering: A Comprehensive Approach to a Complex Disorders.”
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42<br />
We are proud of our applied<br />
and relevant focus, and the<br />
School runs a number of public<br />
access clinics on Curtin’s<br />
Bentley campus providing<br />
students the opportunity for<br />
real-world experience.
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