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Suzanne ChambersProfile page
Adjunct Professor
Faculty Management
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
- DeanUniversity of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Health, Sydney, Australia3 Dec 2018 - Mar 2021
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY ORGANISATIONAL UNITS MEMBERSHIP
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- DirectorGriffith University, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Gold Coast, Australia29 Aug 2016 - 30 Nov 2018
- Professor of Allied Health ResearchGriffith University, Inaugural Menzies Foundation, Gold Coast, Australia11 Apr 2015 - Nov 2017
DEGREES
- PhD, PsychologyGriffith University, Gold Coast, Australia2004
- Bachelor of Applied Psychology (Hons - 1st class),Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia1995
- Bachelor of ArtsUniversity of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia1992
CERTIFICATIONS
- Australian Institute of Company DirectorsAustralian Institute of Company Directors, Australia2017 - present
- Registered PsychologistAustralian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, Australia1995 - present
- Registered NurseAustralian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, Melbourne, Australia1992 - present
PROFILE TYPE
- Academic