Sarah Dods

Research Theme Leader

Contact

Parkville Laboratory
343 Royal Parade
Parkville VIC 3052

Tel: 61 3 9662 7295
Mob: 0477 300 441
Email

Themes

• Health Services

Biography

Dr Sarah Dods is the Theme Leader for Health Services at CSIRO’s ICT Centre. This theme explores multidisciplinary research at the intersection of IT and the Health system, with a particular focus on acute care.

Researchers and engineers in the Health Services theme are experts in areas such as clinical terminology (ontology) engineering; database and data integration technology; clustering and analysis of patient data; extraction of quantitative clinical data from biomedical images; delivery of healthcare interventions using mobile computing platforms; telehealth and remote health service delivery; developing systems for medical training and natural language processing of medical records. The theme has an active policy of translating its research innovation into outcomes for patients and healthcare professionals by working closely with some of the best practitioners and hospitals across Australia.


Dr Dods has held positions in a wide range of organisations, including the R&D section of a large multinational, a high-technology startup, academia, and publicly funded research organisations. Prior to joining CSIRO in 2011, she was with RMIT University as a Business Development Management across Science, Engineering and Health, and has run a consulting business around bringing new technologies to market. Sarah spent 13 years in the academic sector with various research institutions in Melbourne, in optical communications. This culminated in personally deep involvement in the challenges of technology commercialisation, through Monitoring Division - NICTA’s first spin out company in Melbourne. From beginnings in research and inventorship, her journey took her through the transition into business and technology development, co-founding the spin-out company, and then managing the Australian business operations, leading a team in bringing two new products to market.

Sarah ’s technical interests are in the implications of Australia's new NBN, and how this infrastructure investment will translate to better outcomes for Australians in their everyday lives.

Academic Qualifications

2007	Company Directors Course AICD
2000	PhD University of Melbourne, Optical Communications Engineering
1990	BSc(hons) University of Melbourne, Physics
1989	BSc University of Melbourne, Physics

Recent Professional Experience

2010-2011	Business Development Manager, RMIT University
2009-2011	Principal, Technology Meets Business
2007-2009	COO, Monitoring Division
2004-2007	Senior/Principal Researcher, NICTA
2001-2004	Senior Research Fellow, Australian Photonics CRC
2000-2001	Senior Photonics Engineer, VPIsystems
1991-1995	Research Scientist, Comalco Research Centre

Summary of Science & Technical Output

Grants

2004	ARC Discovery "Expanding the boundaries of long distance, high capacity data transmission in optical fibres"

Science Citizenship

2008-2010

Technical program committee member, OFC/NFOEC, USA

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