Rate My Professor Jodie Austin

Dr Jodie Austin is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Services Research and Clinical Informatics Director at the Queensland Digital Health Centre, both within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland. She holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy, Graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, and Doctor of Philosophy in Health Informatics from the University of Queensland, awarded in 2024. Her PhD thesis, 'Exploring the impact of electronic medication management on the safety and quality of therapeutic anticoagulation', examines how digital systems enhance medication safety and quality. Austin's research specializations include clinical informatics, digital health interventions, electronic medical records, anticoagulation management, patient flow optimization, data visualization, and synthetic data applications. Her career features involvement in key funded projects: the SMART Project for maturing healthcare analytics (2022-2023, Queensland Health), HAI-TECH for infection tracking via informatics (2024-2025, Metro North Hospital and Health Service), and Automated Clinical Data Extraction for toxicology and emergency outcomes (2025-2027, Emergency Medicine Foundation).