Overview

Dr. Melinda Martin-Khan is a health scientist who is focused on leadership in health care services. She lectures on healthcare leadership and innovation to clinical and health care leaders, which includes ethics and sustainable development goals, and the future of global healthcare.

Melinda coordinates a program of work as a global researcher which develops and implements clinical and service (outcome, process and structural) quality indicators in acute care, emergency departments and transition care. Previously, Dr. Martin-Khan has had over 13 years administrative experience as a senior executive (CEO) in aged care health services in Australia. Dr. Martin-Khan is a Fellow of interRAI (a global collaboration of volunteers) and has translated research into practice through the development of a set of outcome quality indicators using the suite of interRAI assessment instruments which is available to hospitals around the world.

Dr. Martin-Khan currently holds a lecturing position in the Exeter Medical School at the University of Exeter. She is also an honorary fellow, both as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Services Research in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Queensland (AUS), and as Adjunct Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Northern British Columbia (CAN).

Qualifications

• 2009  PhD, School of Medicine                                          University of Queensland, QLD
• 2009  Graduate Certificate in Science (Biostatistics)         University of Queensland, QLD
• 2006  Masters in Health Science                                       University of South Australia, SA
• 2003  Cert. IV in Assessment and Workplace Training      Mayfield Education Centre, VIC
• 2002  Diploma of Management                                          University of Ballarat, VIC
• 1998  Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting)                       University of Wollongong, NSW
• 1992  Bachelor of Education (Hons. First Class)               University of Wollongong, NSW

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Research

Research interests

Dr Martin-Khan is a global researcher with an international profile on quality of care, the consensus approach to decision making in expert panels, and dementia care. She is currently interested in projects which involve the collaboration of patients and the public as research partners and the development of minimum datasets as part of a national assessment system. She has an emerging interest in global medical education. Dr. Martin-Khan is particularly interested in the care of vulnerable populations which includes older adults and people with dementia. Her post-doctoral work was in the development of a quality framework for the care of older patients and patients with dementia, which was supported by an Alzheimer’s Australia Viertel Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

Dr. Martin-Khan places a high emphasis on translation of evidence into practice and in making research evidence available to the public.  Her work increasingly incorporates methods of co-design from development through to translation. She has established (2020 - current) an innovative patient and carer advisory board in Queensland Australia which is involved in collaborations to improve the quality of healthcare.

Research projects

• Improving quality of care for people with dementia in the acute care setting (AUS)
• Implementation of the Comprehensive Care Standard in acute care hospitals (AUS)
• Assessment systems (Global)
  • Participant perceptions of self-report assessments (UK)
  • Lay discharge summaries from acute care in collaboration with the public and artificial intelligence (AI) (Global)
• Patient and public collaboration in health care services research (AUS)
• Internationalisation of Anglophone higher education (UK)
• Developing quality indicators for health services (AUS)
• Telehealth and rural communities (CANADA)

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Publications

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External Engagement and Impact

Committee/panel activities

• 2020 – eQC Patient and Carer Advisory Board (CI and Funding lead); Person with Lived Experience Chair: Jane Thompson. Link: https://chsr.centre.uq.edu.au/improving-quality-of-care-for-people-with-dementia-in-the-acute-care-setting

Conferences and invited presentations

• 2018 inSPIRe interRAI [Research intensive, invitation only for international PhD students. (Conference Chair) Brisbane Australia. 5-12 November 2018
• 2017-2021: Dementia Expert, UQ Global Engagement. Represented UQ in Chile, Mexico, Canada, England as part of the University’s global engagement program. Interaction with universities, government, and health services.

External positions

• 2020 – 2022 NHMRCs Special Interest Group Cognitive Impairment Identification & Care in Hospitals (Chair)

• 2019-2020 - Queensland Branch, Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG)

Research networks

• 2012 - Current.   interRAI Fellow (Acute Care Network; Life Course Network)

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Teaching

Modules

2023/24

Information not currently available

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Supervision / Group

Postgraduate researchers

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