Dr Zephanie Tyack

Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Biography
Dr Zephanie Tyack is a health services researcher and implementation scientist at the Australian Institute of Health Services Research (AusHSI), School of Public Health and Social Work, and Centre for Healthcare Transformation, Faculty of Health, QUT. She has expertise evaluating the effectiveness of innovative treatments and models of care in burns, trauma, rehabilitation and community settings using clinical trials. She also evaluates the implementation of evidence in real world settings to fast track use in clinical practice. Dr Tyack has a background as a clinical occupational therapist and has worked in research-related positions in hospital and health services as well as in universities. She has over 50 peer-reviewed publications the majority in Quartile 1 journals as first or senior author. She is co-chair of the child health special interest group, International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) and member of the patient engagement committees of ISOQOL and the Australian New Zealand Burn Association research committee. She chairs an implementation science special interest group in child health and is an editorial board member of Frontiers in Pediatrics. Dr Tyack’s current program of research focuses on patient engagement, and the evaluation of novel health interventions to improve health care, mental health, health-related quality of life and clinical decision making. These interventions include care navigators, patient-reported outcome measures, burn scar treatments, medical hypnosis, information and communication technologies, and laser treatments. Dr Tyack works with children with life-altering skin conditions, cancer, long-term neurodevelopmental conditions, as well as with people who experience care that is less than optimal to conduct her research.Personal details
Positions
- Senior Research Fellow - Implementation Science
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Keywords
patient engagement, health-related quality of life, implementation science, paediatrics, scarring, burns, trauma, mixed methods, patient-reported outcome measures
Discipline
Public Health and Health Services
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
Member of the Australian New Zealand Burn Association, International Society for Quality of Life Research, Occupational Therapy Australia
Selected publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Zephanie, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Current supervisions
- The value of Implementation Science in Implementing Computerised Clinical Decision Support Systems in hospital settings
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Bridget Abell, Professor Steven McPhail, Dr Sundresan Naicker - Engaging with clinicians to identify and reduce unwarranted clinical variation
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Bridget Abell