CPP mentors

• Rehabilitation
• Acute and critical care
• Intensive care
• Nutrition and Dietetics
• Nutritional Physiology
• Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD

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• Specialist IBD dietitian
• Gastroenterology-focused nutrition

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• Clinical and academic endocrinologist
• Pituitary endocrinology
• Endocrine genetics
• Founding member of EndoGen
• Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD

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• Staff specialist for the Intensive Care unit
• Clinical Lead for the Medical Emergency Response Service

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• Head of Rheumatology unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital
• President of the Australia Rheumatology Association
• Medical Director of Arthritis SA
• Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD

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• Early career clinical academic
• Preventative cardiology
• Personalised medicine
• Implementation science

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Dr Lee Pryor is an Advanced Speech Pathologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Affiliate Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide. Clinical and research interests include management of altered airways, and complex swallowing and communication impairment in Head & Neck and ICU populations. She has collaborated locally and nationally with ENT and Oromaxillofacial Surgery, Radiation and Medical Oncology and Intensive Care multidisciplinary teams.

Lee’s PhD in 2016 was completed over 5 years, part-time at the University of Queensland, whilst working full-time at Royal Adelaide Hospital. She has been a member of the Central Adelaide Local Health Network Human Research Ethics Committee, is a peer reviewer for head and neck and critical care journals, and has contributed to national guidelines, international committees and consensus panels.

• Colorectal Surgeon at the Royal Adelaide Hospital
• Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide
• Honorary appointment at SAHMRI
• Research lead for the Colorectal Research Group
• Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD

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• Adelaide Nursing School
• Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
• Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD 

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Director of Physician Education
Clinical Associate Professor 
Active clinical educator

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Dr Nathan Ward is the Advanced Clinical Lead Physiotherapist for Cardiorespiratory Medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He leads the Respiratory Physiotherapy team, which provides clinical services to the state-wide Adult Cystic Fibrosis Service and South Australian Lung Transplant Service, as well as the pulmonary rehabilitation and airway clearance programs across the Central Adelaide Local Health Network.

Nathan completed his PhD in 2021, where he investigated the role of exercise as an alternative to traditional airway clearance techniques in cystic fibrosis. He maintains an active involvement in clinical care and research. He has specific interests in how technology can optimise the effectiveness of airway clearance techniques, the role of exercise as a form of airway clearance and the prehabilitaton of people awaiting cardiothoracic organ transplantation.

• Acute and chronic leukemia
• Consultant Haematologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital
• Clinical Research Fellow for SAHMRI
• Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide Medical School
• Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD

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