Rate My Professor Michelle Bellingan

Professor Michelle Bellingan serves as Vice-President (Academic) in CQUniversity's Tertiary Education Division, a role she assumed in January 2023. With qualifications including a PhD from Nelson Mandela University (2005) titled 'Tricyclic Antidepressants and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors: A Drug Utilisation Study in Elderly Patients', an MSc in Clinical Pharmacy (1993), and a BPharm cum laude (1992), both from the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa, she possesses over 30 years of experience in tertiary education, academic management, and research. Previously, as Dean of CQUniversity's School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, she oversaw transformative initiatives such as the Regional Medical Pathway and fostered industry collaborations to integrate vocational and higher education, bolstering regional workforce development.

Professor Bellingan provides strategic leadership in educational design, course quality assurance, staff development, and vocational-higher education integration. She serves on the Board of the Australian Council of Deans of Health Sciences, the Board of the Queensland Minerals and Energy Academy, and the Steering Committee of the Regional Medical Pathway. Her scholarly contributions focus on pharmacy practice, travel health, stroke recovery pharmacology, and medical education challenges, evidenced by publications like 'Safety and efficacy of recovery-promoting drugs for motor function after stroke: A systematic review of randomised controlled trials' (2019), 'Australian Pharmacists’ Perceptions and Practices in Travel Health' (2018), 'Risk factors associated with academic difficulty in an Australian regionally located medical school' (2017), 'Standardized patients in pharmacy education: An integrative literature review' (2015), and 'Assessing the Travel Health Knowledge of Australian Pharmacists' (2020). Her career includes academic positions at James Cook University (2006-2018), where she was Associate Professor and Head of Pharmacy in the College of Medicine and Dentistry, Nelson Mandela University (2005-2006), and University of Port Elizabeth (1994-2004).