Adjunct Professor
Vivienne Tippett
Faculty of Health,
School of Clinical Sciences
Biography
Professor Tippett is the Director of Research for QUT's School of Clinical Science. Professor Tippett has worked for nearly 20 years as a clinical researcher in emergency pre-hospital care, including seven years as Director of the Australian Centre for Pre-hospital Care Research at University of Queensland and Queensland Ambulance Service. In recognition of this work she was awarded the Distinguished Services Medal by the Queensland Ambulance Service in 2011. In 2014 she was achnowledged as one of 125 Women in Leadership awardees by the YWCA. Professor Tippett is currently leading a Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC consortium on emergency warnings and crisis communication. She was awarded the OAM for services to medical education in 2018.
Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Health,
School of Clinical Sciences
Keywords
ambulance, cardiac outcomes, emergency health, emergency services demand, paramedic, performance measurement, trauma outcomes
Research field
Other Medical and Health Sciences, Public Health and Health Services
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Queensland)
- Master Public Health (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
Publications
- Fitzgerald, G., Toloo, S., Rego, J., Ting, J., Aitken, P. & Tippett, V. (2012). Demand for public hospital emergency department services in Australia: 2000-2001 to 2009-2010. EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia, 24(1), 72–78. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/47990
- Coory, M., Kelly, H. & Tippett, V. (2009). Assessment of ambulance dispatch data for surveillance of influenza-like illness in Melbourne, Australia. Public Health, 123(2), 163–168. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/47378
- Watt, K., Tippett, V., Raven, S., Jamrozik, K., Coory, M., Archer, F. & Kelly, H. (2010). Attitudes to living and working in pandemic conditions among emergency prehospital medical care personnel. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 25(1), 13–19. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41222
- Tippett, V., Watt, K., Raven, S., Kelly, H., Coory, M., Archer, F. & Jamrozik, K. (2010). Anticipated behaviors of emergency prehospital medical care providers during an influenza pandemic. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 25(1), 20–25. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41221
- Hitchcock, M., Crilly, J., Gillespie, B., Chaboyer, W., Tippett, V. & Lind, J. (2010). The effects of ambulance ramping on Emergency Department length of stay and in-patient mortality. Australasian Emergency Care, 13(1 - 2), 17–24. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41220
- Woodall, J., Watt, K., Walker, D., Tippett, V., Enraght-Moony, E., Bertolo, C. & Mildwaters, B. (2010). Planning volunteer responses to low-volume mass gatherings: Do event characteristics predict patient workload? Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 25(5), 442–448. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/46479
- Crilly, J., O'Dwyer, J., O'Dwyer, M., Lind, J., Peters, J., Tippett, V., Wallis, M., Bost, N. & Keijzers, G. (2011). Linking ambulance, emergency department and hospital admissions data: understanding the emergency journey. Medical Journal Of Australia, 194(4). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41216
- Wang, X., Barnett, A., Yu, V., Fitzgerald, G., Tippett, V., Aitken, P., Neville, G., McRae, D., Verrall, K. & Tong, S. (2012). The impact of heatwaves on mortality and emergency hospital admissions from non-external causes in Brisbane, Australia. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 69(3), 163–169. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/66931
- Vaneckova, P., Neville, G., Tippett, V., Aitken, P., Fitzgerald, G. & Tong, S. (2011). Do biometeorological indices improve modeling outcomes of heat-related mortality? Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 50(6), 1165–1176. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/52085
- Rowell, D., Connelly, L., Webber, J., Tippett, V., Thiele, D. & Schuetz, M. (2011). What are the true costs of major trauma? Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 70(5), 1086–1095. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41219
QUT ePrints
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