Dr Melinda Martin-Khan

About me:

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).

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.

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