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Sally comes from a background of Medical administration, management and leadership with over twenty years’ experience working with GPs in Primary care. She recently spent five years in youth mental health at South Eastern Sydney Local Health District as a part of the management team setting up, opening and running the headspace centre in Bondi Junction. She joined the team at InsideOut Institute in October 2020 and recently completed a Grad. Cert. in Medical Management and Leadership with University of Wollongong.
Sally is passionate about the importance of wholistic care including mental and physical multidisciplinary care for patients with eating disorders and other mental health conditions. She has presented on the role of the GP in the headspace model at the Australian Association for Adolescent Medicine Youth Health Conference and the National headspace forum in Melbourne. She sat on the GP project committee developing the headspace GP model integrity framework, the headspace national data roundtable and has worked as a consultant for headspace national and the headspace GP Registrar program.
With a background in the arts as a filmmaker and musician, Sally enjoys taking a lateral and creative approach to problems and barriers around access and quality of care for those living with eating disorders. As an expert in service provision and management, she is inspired to solve problems, by not only exploring the bigger picture, but also looking into the detail of processes, workflow, culture, software, digital health, clinical governance and quality improvement.
This pilot study evaluated the acceptability and effectiveness of an online microlearning program for GPs to help support patients with eating disorders. Results demonstrated improved skills, confidence, and willingness-to-treat among participating GPs.
The GP Hub and Tools research program evaluates a comprehensive, free, nationally available digital hub designed to support GPs in screening, assessing, diagnosing, and treating eating disorders through evidence-based tools, clinical decision support, and practice management resources. The program monitors engagement and outcomes to identify improvement opportunities, with the goal of increasing GPs' knowledge, confidence, and willingness to identify and manage eating disorders in primary care.
SkillED is an online CBT self-help program with 11 self-paced modules that evaluates innovative engagement strategies - including individual treatment choice and just-in-time adaptive interventions - to reduce dropout rates and improve adherence and outcomes for individuals aged 12+ experiencing eating disorder symptoms.
Our eClinic is a digital platform providing immediate access to evidence-based online interventions and self-monitoring tools for people with eating disorders at any point in their recovery journey, with a Health Professional Portal enabling clinician-guided support. This research establishes a comprehensive outcomes database from routinely collected eClinic data to analyse accessibility, usage, and treatment effectiveness, informing platform improvements and transforming service provision for underserved populations.
This project aims to improve treatment and early intervention of eating disorders in mainstream mental health settings nationally (Headspace, Medicare Mental Health, Head to Health and Initial Assessment and Referral (IAR)) by embedding evidence-based treatment in care and upskilling frontline mental health clinicians.
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