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PROF DAVID SIMMONS



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Organization: Rural Health
Position: Honorary (Professorial Fellow)

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science University of London
Master of Arts University of Cambridge
Bachelor of Medicine University of London
Doctor of Medicine University of Cambridge

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)
Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society (FRGS)

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Consultancies

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
A PILOT NATIONAL DIABETES IN PREGNANCY CLINICAL AUDIT PROGRAM Chief Investigator 19/01/2003

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Diabetes in Pregnancy in New Zealand
    Year: 2008
    Book: Textbook of Diabetes & Pregnancy
    Publisher: Informa Healthcare
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Journal Articles

  • Characteristics and blood pressure management of diabetic and non-diabetic patients in primary care in rural Victoria
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
    Volume: 81
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 19-24
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  • Should liver function tests be included in definitions of metabolic syndrome? Evidence from the association between liver function tests, components of metabolic syndrome and prevalent cardiovascular disease.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Diabetic Medicine
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 523-529
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • A collaborative cardiovascular health program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Goulburn-Murray region: development and risk factor screening at Indigenous community organisations


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Primary Health
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 9-17
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  • Self-reported past gestational diabetes mellitus as a risk factor for abnormal glucose tolerance among Australian women


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Diabetes Care
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 2293-2295
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  • Diabetes risk factors, diabetes and diabetes care in a rural Australian community
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Rural Health
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 296-303
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  • The ADIPS pilot National Diabetes in Pregnancy Audit Project
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
    Volume: 47
    Page numbers: 198-206
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Dental health in rural Victoria: the Crossroads Household Survey


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Dental Journal
    Volume: 51
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 140-145
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  • Is grand multiparity associated with an increased risk of dysglycaemia?


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Diabetologia
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1522-1527
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Characteritics of hypertensive patients and their management in rural Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Human Hypertension
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 497-499
    Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
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  • Choice and availability of takeaway and restaurant food is not related to the prevalence of adult obesity in rural communities in Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: International Journal of Obesity
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 703 - 710
    Publisher: Nature Publishing Group(Basingstroke)
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  • How does a household health survey change consumer perspectives of diabetes in a multiethnic area of New Zealand?
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Research for Consumers
    Volume: 2005
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: Journal of Research for Consumers
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  • Obstetric outcomes among rural Aboriginal Victorians
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 68 - 70
    Publisher: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology(East Melbourne)
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  • Prevalence of diabetes in rural Victoria
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
    Volume: 70
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 287 - 290
    Publisher: Elsevier Science Ireland(Coclare)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Diabetes care: practice nurse roles, attitudes and concerns
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Advanced Nursing
    Volume: 48
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 68-75
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Tonga (Kingdom of)
    Year: 2003
    Book: Pocket guide to cultural health assessment
    Publisher: Mosby International(St Louis)
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Journal Articles

  • Addressing the shortage of rural physicians in Victoria: maximising rural trainee recruitment
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 179
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 219-220
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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  • Impact of an integrated approach to diabetes care at the Rumbalara Aboriginal Health Service
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Internal Medicine Journal
    Volume: 33
    Page numbers: 581-585
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Reaching hard-to-reach, high risk populations: piloting a health promotion and diabetes disease prevention programme on an urban marae in New Zealand
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Health Promotion International
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 41-50
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • Removing the roadblocks to medical and health student training in rural hospitals in Victoria
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Journal of Rural Health
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 218-223
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Some key elements for developing a case management model of care to optimise outcomes in diabetes in a rural setting
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 7th National Rural Health Conference, The Art and Science of Health Community, Sharing country know how
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 7th National Rural Health Conference
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance(Canberra)
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Reports

  • The Crossroads Rural Health Studies: Health in the Alexandra Community
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne(Shepparton)
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  • The Crossroads Rural Health Studies: Health in the Benalla Community
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne(Shepparton)
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  • The Crossroads Rural Health Studies: Health in the Cobram Community
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne(Shepparton)
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  • The Crossroads Rural Health Studies: Health in the Echuca Community
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne(Shepparton)
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  • The Crossroads Rural Health Studies: Health in the Euroa community
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne(Shepparton)
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  • The Crossroads Rural Health Studies: Health in the Mooroopna Community
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne(Shepparton)
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  • The Crossroads Rural Health Studies: Health in the Seymour Community
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne(Shepparton)
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  • The Crossroads Rural Health Studies: Health in the Shepparton Community
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne(Shepparton)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Determinants of health, disease, and disability: Differences between country and city
    Year: 2002
    Book: The New Rural Health
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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  • Prevention of complications: A commentary
    Year: 2002
    Book: The evidence base for diabetes care
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(West Sussex)
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Journal Articles

  • Association between twin pregnancy and hyperglycemia in a multiethnic community in New Zealand
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Diabetes Care
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 934-935
    Publisher: American Diabetes Association(Virginia)
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  • Barriers to blood glucose monitoring in a multiethnic community
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Diabetes Care
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1772-1777
    Publisher: American Diabetes Association(Virginia)
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  • Development of guidelines for non-Indigenous people undertaking research among the Indigenous population of north-east Victoria
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 176
    Page numbers: 482-485
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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  • Diabetes care by general practitioners in South Auckland: changes from 1990 to 1999
    Year: 2002
    Journal: New Zealand Medical Journal
    Volume: 115
    Issue: 1164
    Page numbers: 219
    Publisher: Southern Colour Print(Dunedin)
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  • Dispelling the myths about rural consultant physician practice: the Victorian physicians survey
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 176
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 477-481
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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  • Eye health in rural Australia
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 316-321
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Fetal overnutrition in Polynesian pregnancies and in gestational diabetes may lead to dysregulation of the adipoinsular axis in offspring
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Diabetes Care
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 1539-1544
    Publisher: American Diabetes Association(Virginia)
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  • Fuel mediated teratogenesis driven by maternal obesity may be responsible for pandemic of obesity
    Year: 2002
    Journal: British Medical Journal
    Volume: 324
    Page numbers: 674-675
    Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group(London)
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  • General practice changes in South Auckland from 1990 to 1999: A threat to continuity of care?
    Year: 2002
    Journal: New Zealand Family Physician
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 387-390
    Publisher: Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
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  • Guidelines for the management of gestational diabetes mellitus revisited
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 176
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 352
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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  • Selective screening for gestational diabetes in Chinese women
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Diabetes Care
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 796
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  • The presence of a common mitochondrial DNA variant is associated with fasting insulin levels in Europeans in Auckland
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Diabetic Medicine
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 966-971
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  • The utility and efficacy of the new insulins in the management of diabetes and pregnancy
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Current Diabetes Reports
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 331-336
    Publisher: Current Science(Philadelphia)
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Reports

  • Evaluation of the healthly lifestyle program of the Rumbalara Football Netball Club
    Year: 2002
    Customer: Rumbalara Football Netball Club, Shepparton, Victoria, 3630
    Publisher: Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne(Shepparton)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • A community diabetes educator course for the unemployed in South Auckland, New Zealand
    Year: 2001
    Journal: The Diabetes Educator
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 94-100
    Publisher: Stenson Bauer Communications
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  • A multimedia approach to understanding diabetes
    Year: 2001
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 358
    Issue: 9278
    Page numbers: 338
    Publisher: The Lancet Publishing Group(London)
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  • Advanced training program for rural physicians.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: RACP News
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 23
    Publisher: The Royal Australasian College of Physicians(Sydney)
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  • Angiotensin-1-converting enzyme and angiotensinogen gene polymorphisms in Maori and Pacific Island people in New Zealand.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Internal Medicine Journal
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 116-118
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Diabetes in general practice: Tongans in Tonga and South Auckland.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Quality in Clinical Practice
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 1/2
    Page numbers: 17-20
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia
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  • Effectiveness of changes in the delivery of diabetes care in a rural community.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Journal of Rural Health
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 74-78
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia
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  • Impact of a diabetes midwifery educator on the diabetes in pregnancy service at Middlemore Hospital
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Practical Diabetes International
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 119-122
    Publisher: Wiley Europe
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  • Personal barriers to diabetes care: Is it me, them, or us?
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Diabetes Spectrum: From Research to Practice
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 10-12
    Publisher: American Diabetes Association
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  • Polynesians: prone to obesity and Type 2 diabetes mellitus but not hyperinsulinaemia
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Diabetic Medicine
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 193-198
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  • Predisposition to nephropathy in Polynesians is associated with family history of renal disease, not diabetes mellitus
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Diabetic Medicine
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 40-46
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  • Rural Training and the State of Rural Health Services: Effect of Rural Background on the Perception and Attitude of First-year Medical Students at the University of Melbourne
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Journal of Rural Health
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 178-185
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia
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  • Rural primary health care in Australia: What can we learn?
    Year: 2001
    Journal: New Doctor
    Volume: 74
    Page numbers: 2-4
    Publisher: Doctors Reform Society(Sydney)
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  • Use of insulin pumps in pregnancies complicated by Type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes in a multiethnic community.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Diabetes Care
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 2078-2082
    Publisher: American Diabetes Association(Virginia)
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