Staff profile

Dr Terri-Meehan Andrews

Lecturer in Human Physiology

Faculty of Health Sciences

La Trobe Rural Health School
Department of Rural Human Biosciences

Bendigo

 

Qualifications

Bachelor Science (Hons), PhD (Medicine), Grad Cert Higher Ed.

Area of study

Anatomy and Physiology

Brief profile

Terri is part of the regional Human Bioscience that services all of the courses offered in LaTrobe Rural Health School. She teaches into several first and second year allied health physiology and pathophysiology subjects, and into 3rd year pharmacology in FSTE. Her expertise is within reproduction and pregnancy, but also has extensive knowledge of endocrinology and the immune system. She coordinates several subjects, including DEN2MDA (dentistry pathophysiology), HBS2PAT (instance subject) and part of ORH1OHB (infection and immunity)

Terri’s current research strengths can be divided into 2 areas:

1/ Terri, collaborating with Dr Chris Bradley from FSTE, is working with a series of benzoxazines compounds that act as sensitizing agents in the chemo- and radio- therapy of cancer. These compounds inhibit a tumour cell's ability to repair damage to DNA caused by radiation or chemotherapy drugs, and thus promote cancer cell destruction. These projects also include several honours and postgraduate students.

2/ Student Learning preferences - Terri’s also explores if current teaching methods nurture and promote a self learning approach. This project has two stages, firstly, to ascertain the changing learning styles (Visual, Aural, Reading, and Kinesthetic) of students in 1st, 2nd and 3rd year of a health science degree. Secondly, to develop teaching practices that evolve throughout the three years that develops the skills to learn independently and be adaptive to different learning approaches. Ultimately her aim is to support students to gain confidence in their ability to ‘self learn’ and develop into life-long learners.   

Teaching units

  • HBS1HBA - Human Bioscience A
  • HBS1HBB - Human Bioscience B
  • HBS2PAT - Pathophysiology for Podiatrists
  • ORH1OHB - Oral Health B
  • HBS2IAI - Infection and Immunity
  • DEN2MDA - Dental Medicine A
  • DENDSA –-Dental Science A
  • PHA3THB - Therapeutics B  

Recent publications

Books

de Kretser, D.M., Meehan, T., O’Bryan, M.K., Wreford, N., and Loveland, K.L. Regulatory Mechanisms in Mammalian Spermatogenesis, Testis, Epididymis and Technologies in the year 2000, Springer

Papers in refereed journals

Kidd, T., Kenny, A., & Meehan-Andrews, T. (YEAR). The Experience of General Nurses in Rural Australian Emergency Departments. Nurse Education in Practice.

Meehan-Andrews, T.A. Teaching mode efficiency and learning preferences of first year nursing students YEAR Nurse Education Today, Volume 29, Issue 1, Pages 24-32

Meehan-Andrews, T.A., Humphreys J.S., Jones, J.A., ‘How do we canvas rural consumer viewpoints for health care planning and quality assurance? - Methodological considerations’ YEAR Australian Journal of Primary Health, November 2006

Jones, JA, Meehan-Andrews, T., Smith, KB., Humphreys, JS., Griffin, L., and Wilson, B. ‘There’s no point in complaining, nothing changes’. Rural disaffection with complaints as a means to improve quality in health services  YEAR Australian Health Review.

Humphreys, JS. Meehan-Andrews, T., Jones, J., Griffin, L., Wilson, B. and Smith, K. How do rural consumers contribute to quality assurance of health services? YEAR Australian Health Review.

Lakoski-Loveland, K. Bakker M., Meehan T., Christy E., von Schönfeldt V. Drummond A., and de Kretser D. Expression of Bambi is widespread in juvenile and adult rat tissues and regulated in male germ cells. Endocrinology, June 5, 2003.

Meehan, T., Loveland, K.L., de Kretser, D.M., Cory, S. and Print, C.G. (2000) Developmental regulation of the bcl-2 family during spermatogenesis: New insights into the phenotype of the bcl-w knockout mice. Cell Death and Differentiation.

Kong, A.M., Speed, C.J., Meehan, T., Loveland, K.L., Cheema, S., Ooms, L. and Mitchell, C.A. (2000) Cloning and characterisation of a 72kDa inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatease localised to the Golgi network. J. Biol. Chem.

De Kretser, D.M., Meinhardt, A., Meehan, T., Phillips, D.J., O’Bryan, M.K., and Loveland, K. (2000) The roles of inhibin and related peptides in gonadal function. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 161:43-46.

Meehan,T., Schlatt, S., O’Bryan, M.K., de Kretser, D.M., and Loveland, K.L. (2000)  Activin A and follistatin in the developing rat testis: Localisation and regulation of Sertoli and germ cell development. Dev. Biol. 220:225-237.

Schlatt, S., Zhengwei, Y., Meehan, T., de Kretser, D.M. and Loveland, K.L. (1999) Application of morphometric techniques to postnatal rat testes in organ culture: Insights into testis growth in organ culture. Cell Tiss Res: 298:335-43.

Print, C.G., Loveland, K.L.,Gibson, L., Meehan, T., Stylianou, A., Wreford, N., de Kretser, D.M., Metcalfe, D., Kontgen, F., Adams, J.M. and Cory, S.  (1998) Apoptosis regulator Bcl-w is essential for spermatogenesis but appears otherwise redundant.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 95(21): 12424-12431.