Staff profile

Ms Elizabeth Martin

Lecturer

Faculty of Health Sciences

La Trobe Rural Health School
Department of Allied Health

Health Sciences Room 1.24, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

NZDipOT CIT, PGDipHealthResMethodology La Trobe

Membership of professional associations

OT Australia

Area of study

Occupational Therapy

Brief profile

Clinically, Elizabeth has a background in Mental Health and Physical Rehabilitation; she spent 10 years as a Senior Clinician in Rheumatology before commencing teaching at La Trobe in 1998. Elizabeth’s main focus is on skills education for clinical fieldwork, environmental modifications and assistive technology prescription and use. She currently teaches in the Master of Occupational Therapy (MOTPrac) programme.

Recent publications

 

Gilchrist, P., Rozenbilds, U., Martin, E., Connolly, H. (1985) A Study of 100 consecutive admissions to a psychogeriatric unit. Medical Journal of Australia. 143(6).

Rozenbilds, U., Goldney, R., Gilchrist, P., Martin, E., Connolly, H. (1986) The assessment by relatives of elderly patients with psychiatric illness. Psychological Reports. 59(3), pp. 795 - 801.

Rentsch, J., Martin, E., Harrison, L., Wicks, I. (1998) Prolonged response of multicentric reticulohistiocytosis to low dose methotrexate. The Journal of Rheumatology. 25(5). pp. 1012 - 1015.

Martin, E. & Baggaley, K. (2005). There is evidence that joint protection education and comprehensive occupational therapy enhances functional outcomes in adults with rheumatoid arthritis (Commentary). , 52, 264-265.

Martin, E., Baggaley, K., Buchbinder, R., Johnston, R., Tugwell, P., Maxwell, L. & Santesso, N. (2008). Occupational Therapists should be more involved in the Cochrane Collaboration: the example of the Australian Satellite Cochrane Musculoskeletal Review Group. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal. 55, 207-211.

Selected Peer Reviewed Conference Presentations

2006
Inflammatory arthritis:  current evidence and research priorities for occupational therapy. WFOT Congress, Sydney. (Co author Katherine Baggaley Inner South Community Health Service)

2003
Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Victorian Occupational Therapists. OT Australia 22nd National Conference

2002
Implications of non-compliance and non-use of assistive devices. This paper reviewed six published and unpublished studies using a meta-analysis methodology. Rheumatology Health Professionals Conference, held in conjunction with the Australian Rheumatologists Conference, Christchurch NZ.