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Dr Anthony Smith is the Deputy Director and Associate Professor at the Centre for Online Health. Dr Anthony Smith is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the University of Queensland’s Centre for Online Health (COH) at the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH).
Dr Smith has a decade of research experience based on investigations of new telemedicine applications for the benefit of clinicians and patients in regional and remote areas of Queensland.
In 2004, he completed a doctorate degree in the field of medicine, by examining the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of a novel telepaediatric service in Queensland.
Over the last ten years, the COH has earned international recognition as a pioneer in the field of telepaediatrics (i.e. the delivery of paediatric health services at a distance). In collaboration with the RCH, the COH provides routine telepaediatric services for children all throughout Queensland – involving a broad range of specialties including burns care, cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, neurology, orthopaedics and psychiatry.
Specific research interests include the evaluation of feasibility, cost-effectiveness and diagnostic accuracy of telemedicine applications in the context of paediatrics and child health. Current research includes the evaluation of wireless (robot) videoconference systems in paediatric wards; home telemedicine consultations for children with chronic health conditions; email-based telemedicine support; and a community-based telemedicine health screening programme for Indigenous children in the South Burnett region of Queensland.
Dr Smith has made a significant contribution to the literature on telepaediatrics publishing more than fifty papers in peer-reviewed journals and eight book chapters on telemedicine related topics. Dr Smith continues to present his work through publication, national and international conferences and local meetings.
Dr Smith is the co-convenor of the International Successes and Failures in Telehealth (SFT) conference held annually in Australia since 2001; the program co-chair of the Global Telehealth Conference (GT2010) held in Australia during November 2010; and the inaugural Queensland representative of the Australasian Telehealth Society, established in 2008. He was also appointed as an Associate Editor for the BMC Health Services Research journal in 2009.
Previously, Dr Smith has had over ten years’ clinical experience as a Registered Nurse specialising in paediatrics and child health.
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