Elizabeth Skinner

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Elizabeth Skinner (aka Liz Skinner) is a former women's Australian rules football player who played for the Melbourne University Mugars in the Victorian Women's Football League. Skinner started her football career with the Mugars in 1998 and won the club's best and fairest in her first season. [1] Skinner also received the Scorpions VWFL Best New Player of the Year in 1998 and was a multiple premiership player with the Mugars (2002, 2003 and 2005). [2] Skinner represented Victoria in the AFL Women's National Championships on three occasions (2003 - Darwin; 2004 - Melbourne; 2005 - Adelaide) and was selected in the All-Australian team at all three Championships.

Skinner starred in the first VWFL match played at the MCG, which was held on Mother's Day, Sunday May 9, 2004. In a best-on-ground performance, playing across the half-forward and full-forward lines, Skinner kicked eight goals in a match-winning performance. [3] The match was played between the Melbourne University Mugars and the St Albans Spurs, in a rematch of the 2003 VWFL Grand Final, as a curtain-raiser before the AFL match between Melbourne Demons and the West Coast Eagles. The final score was 11.11 (77) to 7.8 (50).

Skinner was named in the VWFL team of the 2000s and on the half-forward flank in the Silver Jubilee team at the VWFL 25th Anniversary Gala Dinner. [4] Skinner retired from the VWFL at the end of the 2005 season.

Health services career

Skinner became the Director of Allied Health Research at Western Health in the inner west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Skinner is an Honorary Research Fellow at both Monash University and the University of Melbourne. Skinner received over $2.9 million in grant funding and has over 50 publications, most of which are peer-reviewed publications, with one book chapter and one government report. [5] In addition, Skinner was a senior clinical physiotherapist specialising in the provision of early rehabilitation and respiratory care within the intensive care unit. Skinner was awarded her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2011, and her thesis was titled "Health-related quality of life and physical function in Australian survivors of critical illness." Skinner's thesis is available both on Researchgate [6] and the digital repository in the University of Melbourne Library. [7]

Skinner's areas of research include economic evaluation, translation of research into practice, the delivery of rehabilitation within the intensive care unit, outcome measurement, and health services delivery and policy.

Skinner has a h-index of 8 and an i-10 index of 7. Skinner's work has been cited over 180 times. Key research findings and contributions include:

Full details of Skinner's research career can be found on Google Scholar [14] or on Researchgate. [5]

In 2016, Skinner enrolled to study medicine at Monash University. [15]

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  2. ↑ "Women in a league of their own". The Age. 31 May 2003.
  3. ↑ "Uni women's football team stars at the MCG : News : The University of Melbourne". wayback.archive-it.org.
  4. ↑ "If I could turn back time... - Victorian Womens Football League". GameDay.
  5. 1 2 "Profile: Elizabeth H Skinner". ResearchGate .
  6. ↑ Skinner, Elizabeth H. (October 2010). Health-related quality of life, physical function and rehabilitation in survivors of critical illness (PhD). University of Melbourne – via ResearchGate.
  7. ↑ http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/9533 [ dead link ]
  8. ↑ Wang Y, Haines T, Ritchie P, Walker C, Ansell T, Ryan DT, Lim PS, Vij S, Acs R, Fealy N, Skinner EH. Early mobilization on continuous renal replacement therapy is safe and may improve filter life. Critical Care 18(4):R161
  9. ↑ Skinner EH, Berney S, Warrillow S, Denehy L. Development of a physical function outcome measure (PFIT) and pilot exercise training protocol for use in intensive care. Critical Care and Resuscitation 11(2):110-115
  10. ↑ Denehy L, De Morton N, Skinner EH, Edbrooke L, Haines K, Warrillow S, Berney S. A Physical Function Test for use in the ICU: Validity, responsiveness and predictive utility of the PFIT (scored). Physical Therapy 93(12):1636-1645
  11. ↑ Haines, Terry; O'Brien, Lisa; McDermott, Fiona; Markham, Donna; Mitchell, Deb; Watterson, Dina; Skinner, Elizabeth (2014). "A novel research design can aid disinvestment from existing health technologies with uncertain effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and/Or safety". Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 67 (2): 144–151. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2013.08.014. PMID   24275500.
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  13. ↑ "ANZCTR - Registration".
  14. ↑ "Dr Elizabeth H Skinner". scholar.google.com.au.
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