WEHI Director’s Seminar hosted by Professor Tony Papenfuss
 

Associate Professor Catherine Quinlan 
MB BAO BCh CHIA MSc(MedEd) MD(Res) ExecMBA MRCPI FRACP FASN FRCPI
Academic Paediatric Nephrologist at the Royal Children’s Hospital, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the University of Melbourne

Your Second Brain: Generative AI as Co-Author, Research Assistant and Intellectual Sparring Partner

 

Davis Auditorium

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Including Q&A session

A/Prof Catherine Quinlan is an Academic Paediatric Nephrologist at the Royal Children’s Hospital, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the University of Melbourne in Australia. She has a career focus on genetic kidney disease and a passion for the early detection of disease to prevent progression. As a health services researcher, her work centres on the interface between nephrology, genomics, educational research and implementation science.

She gained her undergraduate medical qualifications from the National University of Ireland (MB BAO BCh) and her post-graduate degrees in education, medical research and business from Queens University Belfast (MScMedEd), University College London (MDRes) and Monash University (ExecMBA). She is a dual-trained paediatrician and nephrologist, a member of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (MRCPI) and a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP), the American Society of Nephrology (FASN) and the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (FRCPI).

Catherine established the state-wide kidney genetics service in Victoria and leads the Kidney Flagship at MCRI, a comprehensive clinical research pipeline for children and young adults impacted by kidney disease. She is Deputy Head of the Department of Paediatrics and Academic Lead for Graduate Research in the Melbourne Medical School and has supervised 4 PhD students to completion with 2 currently enrolled. Her current projects focus on the mainstreaming of genomics into routine clinical practice, the identification of novel genes for kidney disease, the health economic analysis of genomic sequencing, the implementation of school and community-based programs to prevent cardiovascular disease, and the use of data in the electronic medical record for early recognition of kidney disease.

She also has a strong interest in the application of artificial intelligence in healthcare and education. Catherine has delivered over 45 invited talks and workshops on the use of AI for clinicians, educators and researchers in the past 18 months. She serves on the Melbourne Children’s Campus AI Committee, the MCRI AI Working Group, and the University of Melbourne AI Working Groups, where she contributes to the development of guidelines for the safe, responsible, and ethical use of AI in research and education.

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