General Practice, osteoarthritis, and being the Dean with Professor Jane Gunn

Professor Jane Gunn is a General Practitioner, PhD graduate, and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at The University of Melbourne. Professor Gunn’s distinguished career as an academic has seen her work as Head of the Department of General Practice, Deputy Head of the Melbourne Medical School, and the inaugural Chair of Primary Care Research at The University of Melbourne. Professor Gunn’s leadership in traversing the research-practice gap has raised the profile and rigour of primary care research in Australia and in 2016 saw her election to the position of Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.   Diagnosis, Management and Outcomes of Depression in the Primary Care Setting (The Diamond 10-year Cohort Study) - https://medicine.unimelb.edu.au/research-groups/general-practice-research/mental-health-program/outcomes-of-depression    Matching depression management to severity prognosis in primary care: results of the Target-D randomised controlled trial - https://bjgp.org/content/71/703/e85    10 Of The Best - Showcasing significant projects that support the improvement of human health NHMRC Research Projects (Twelfth Edition) - https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/attachments/publications/10_of_the_best_12th_ed.pdf   Moving from “let’s fix them” to “actually listen”: the development of a primary care intervention for mental-physical multimorbidity - https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-021-06307-5   The Joint Effect of Physical Multimorbidity and Mental Health Conditions Among Adults in Australia - https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2020/20_0155.htm