Sam O'Connor

Research using reliable sources such as University of Queensland websites, official academic profiles, Google Scholar, and related publications reveals no Professor Sam O'Connor employed at the University of Queensland. No staff directory entry, expert profile, or faculty listing matches a professor by this name. Potential associations include Hon Samuel (Sam) O'Connor MP, a University of Queensland alumnus holding a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, currently serving as Queensland Minister for Housing and Public Works and Minister for Youth Justice. Another match is Dr Sam O'Connor, a gastroenterologist and Staff Specialist at Princess Alexandra Hospital, who graduated with honours from the University of Sydney in 2006, completed gastroenterology training at the same hospital from 2011, and was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2015. Dr O'Connor practices at Queensland Gastroenterology with research interests in inflammatory bowel disease, advanced colonoscopy, polypectomy, and colonoscopy quality improvement.

Dr O'Connor has co-authored several peer-reviewed papers, including 'Costs and benefits of a formal quality framework for colonoscopy: Economic evaluation' (2024), 'Co-designing The Healthy Gut Diet for Preventing Gestational Diabetes: Co-design methods and findings with pregnant women living with obesity' (2024) with UQ School of Public Health researchers, 'An in vitro and clinical dose-finding study of antifoaming effects of simethicone during colonoscopy' (2020), 'Improving the Quality of Bowel Preparation: Rewarding Patients for Compliance' (2021), and 'Influence of Simethicone Added to the Rinse Water during Colonoscopy Preparation: A Placebo-Controlled, Randomized Clinical Trial' (2018). A 2018 biomechanical study on cricket batting techniques lists Samuel O’Connor affiliated with UQ's School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences. No academic appointments, degrees, awards, fellowships, honors, major books, public lectures, committee roles, or editorial contributions for a professor are verified. No UQ professional email is publicly available.