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BIO

Professor Suzanne Chambers AO is the Executive Dean Health Sciences at Australian Catholic University (ACU) and an Adjunct Professor at UTS. Previously she held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Health at UTS and Director of the Menzies Health Institute of Queensland at Griffith University. She is a health psychologist and registered nurse who has worked as a practitioner and researcher in psychological support for people with cancer for over 30 years.

Professor Chambers is an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to medical research, particularly in the area of psycho-oncology, and to community health through patient care strategies to assist men with prostate cancer.

She has published extensively on the psychological effects of cancer with over 200 peer reviewed publications and has been a chief investigator on successful research grants valued at over $30 million from the NHMRC, ARC, Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, Cancer Australia, Beyond Blue and Cancer Council Queensland. This includes a current NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Prostate Cancer Survivorship that she leads.

Professor Chambers also holds adjunct professorships at Griffith University, Edith Cowan University, the University of Queensland and University of Southern Queensland.

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS

  • Dean
    University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Health, Sydney, Australia3 Dec 2018 - Mar 2021

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY ORGANISATIONAL UNITS MEMBERSHIP

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Director
    Griffith University, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Gold Coast, Australia29 Aug 2016 - 30 Nov 2018
  • Professor of Allied Health Research
    Griffith University, Inaugural Menzies Foundation, Gold Coast, Australia11 Apr 2015 - Nov 2017

DEGREES

  • PhD, Psychology
    Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia2004
  • Bachelor of Applied Psychology (Hons - 1st class),
    Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia1995
  • Bachelor of Arts
    University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia1992

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Australian Institute of Company Directors
    Australian Institute of Company Directors, Australia2017 - present
  • Registered Psychologist
    Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, Australia1995 - present
  • Registered Nurse
    Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, Melbourne, Australia1992 - present

PROFILE TYPE

  • Academic

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