Mrs Sue Walker

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Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work


Personal details

Positions

Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work

Keywords

ICD, coding, health information, international classification of diseases, morbidity, mortality, surveillance

Research field

Public Health and Health Services

Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Qualifications

  • Master of Health Science (Queensland University of Technology)
  • GradDip(PubHlth) (Queensland University of Technology)
  • BAppSc (Cumberland Coll. of Health Sci)

Teaching

Teaching highlights

At QUT, Sue is responsible for coordinating and teaching the following units of study:

1st year units:                    

  • PUB100     Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology
  • PUB101      Introduction to Clinical Classification

2nd year units:

  • PUB202      Advanced Clinical Classification

3rd year units:

  • PUB359      Health Information Management (50%)
  • PUB364      Transition to HIM Practice
  • PUB370      Practical Clinical classification
  • PUB368      Integrated HIM Practice

In addition, Sue conducts regular short courses for international participants, both in Australia and in other countries. The focus of these courses is to provide skills and knowledge to working practitioners in areas such as health information management, clinical coding, medical terminology, morbidity and mortality data quality and related subjects.

Experience

Publications

QUT ePrints

For more publications by Sue, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).

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A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/s.walker

Awards

Selected research projects

Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.