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Dr Tammy Hoffmann is a Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. Her research interests include health communication (including the communication of evidence to patients), patient education, health literacy, evidence-based practice, and telerehabilitation. Dr Tammy Hoffmann is the leader of the Health Communication Research Group (http://www.shrs.uq.edu.au/health-comm-rg) which is an interdisciplinary group of health professionals that are involved in developing and evaluating the effectiveness (through randomised controlled trials) of interventions that enable patients to actively participate in their health care, be involved in decision making, and perform self-management activities. This includes the development of tailored educational resources (in various formats such as online, DVDs, written materials) that facilitate self-management, individual-level health promotion, patient-health professional communication, and health literacy across a range of chronic (such as stroke and diabetes) and acute conditions. Tammy is also leading a program of research that is exploring individuals’ understanding of the evidence for their health condition and developing guidelines to assist health professionals to communicate the evidence for health recommendations to their patients. Tammy is the developer of the ‘What you need to know about stroke’ educational package (http://www.uq.edu.au/tru/strokebook) which has been adopted for use in many health facilities throughout Australia.
Dr Hoffmann also has numerous teaching and research interests in the area of Evidence-Based Practice. She co-ordinates and lectures in evidence-based practice courses to undergraduate and postgraduate students from a number of health professions. and is a member of the team that developed OTseeker. OTseeker (http://www.otseeker.com) is an online occupational therapy evidence database that contains the bibliographic details of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials about occupational therapy interventions and is the world’s most complete index of the evidence of effects of occupational therapy interventions. She has also researched and published projects about the development and evaluation of telerehabilitation systems and is a member of the Telerehabilitation Research Unit.
Tammy has been awarded over $1.19 million in competitive grant funding. She is the lead editor of a new text, Evidence-Based Practice Across the Health Professions, that was published by Elsevier in 2010, has written 16 book chapters, over 45 national and international refereed journal publications, and given numerous invited presentations and evidence-based practice workshops. She is a member of the National Stroke Foundation Clinical Council, the editorial board for the Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation Journal, the Critically Appraised Papers Advisory Board for the Australian Occupational Therapy Journal and a regular reviewer for numerous occupational therapy, neurology, patient education, and health communication journals.
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