Laurie Wilson
Post-retirement Fellow
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Projects
- Telehealth
Biography
Laurie Wilson received the PhD degree in Cosmic Ray Physics from the University of Sydney in 1973, and after working in Atmospheric Physics at the University of Oxford and a short Senior Tutorship at the University of Sydney, joined the Ultrasonics Laboratory of the Australian Department of Health, where he gained an international reputation for research in medical ultrasound. After this group transferred into CSIRO he broadened his interest to encompass a range of applications of medical technologies to healthcare.
He has taken leading role in several health-related projects in CSIRO, including image analysis and visualisation, telehealth and home telecare. He coordinated two broadband telehealth reearch projects in Sydney West and Tasmania respectively, which have influenced a number of subsequent telehealth initiatives in Australia. He also set up the ICT Centre's Human Factors group. Since retirement from full time work in April 2008 he has taken up a post-retirement fellowship. In 2008 he founded the Australasian Telehealth Society and is currently its Honorary Secretary.
Academic Qualifications
| 1973 | PhD University of Sydney (Physics) |
| 1968 | BSc (Hons in Physics), University of Sydney |
Recent Professional Experience
| 2009-2012 | Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney |
| 2008-present | Post -retirement Fellow |
| 2005-2008 | Research Team Leader, Human Factors, Networking Technologies Lab, ICT Centre |
| 2006-2008 | Project Leader, ECHONET |
| 2003-2005 | Theme Leader, e-Health, ICT Centre |
| 2004 | Acting Research Director, e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO |
| 2001-2003 | Team Leader, eHealth, Services Sector, TIP CSIRO |
| 1998-2002 | Project Leder, Personal Monitoring, TIP CSIRO |
Achievements & Awards
| 2009 | Lifetime achievement award, CSIRO ICT Centre |
| 2008 | Special Mention for ECHONET, Australian Telecommunications Users Group awards |
| 2007 | Don Walker Award for ViCCU Team, Health Informatics Society of Australia |
| 2007 | Joint winner, CSIRO-wide "Service from Science" (ViCCU Team) |
| 2004 | AIIA iAward (ViCCU team) |
| 2004 | Finalist Eureka Science Prize (ViCCU Team) |
| 2004 | Winner, lucky door prize, Eureka Science Prizes |
| 2004 | Best Poster, Successes & Failures in Telehealth |
| 2002 | Best paper, HISA NSW Conference |
Other Highlights
| 2007 | Invited Web Lecture for International Virtual eHospital |
| 2006 | Invited to address ASEM Senior ICT meeting in Hanoi to introduce Australia-Vietnam telemedicine project |
| 2005 | Invited (expenses paid) to address International e-Health seminar by Korean eHealth Association |
| 2003 | Invited (expenses paid) to address Yonsei University PACS seminar, Korea |
| 2000 | Member of Australian e-Health delegation to Paris organised by French Australian Industrial Research (FAIR |
| 1998 | Coordinator and main speaker at Australian Parliamentary briefing |
| 1994 | Selected for CSIRO Research Management Course |
Summary of Science & Technical Output
| Books/Book chapters | 1 |
|---|---|
| Journal | 31 |
| Refereed Conference/Workshop | 35 |
| Technical/Client Reports | 4 |
| Invited Presentations | 55 |
| Patents | 5 |
Grants
| 1996 | International Research Collaboration Grant for collaboration with UCLA School of Medicine on 3D Medical Image Segmentation using Knowledge-based Techniques. |
Student Supervision
| 2009- | PhD (UTS) Susan Hansen |
| 2003 | PhD (UNSW) supervision M Park (awarded 2003) |
| 1997 | PhD (UNSW) supervision M Brown (awarded 1997) |
| MBiomedEng (UNSW) S Kho, S Corlette | |
| Other Several honours and vacation students |
Science Citizenship
| 2009- | Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney |
| 2008 | Founder and Honorary Secretary, Australasian Telehealth Society |
| 2003-2004 | Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW |
| 2000-2001 | Member, External Advisory Committee, Centre for Online Health University of Queensland |
| 1999-Present | Member, American Telemedicine Association |
| 1995-1998 | Treasurer, Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine |
| 1993-1997 | Visiting Fellow, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW |
| 1979-Present | Member, Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (served on several committees) |
| Reviewer 6 international journals | |
| Conferences Technical Program Committee or Stream Co-Chair, 4 international conferences |
Top 10 Publications
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| J. Li, L. S. Wilson, R. Y. Qiao, T. Percival, A. Krumm-Heller, S. Stapleton, and P. Cregan, "Development of a broadband telehealth system for critical care: process and lessons learned," Telemed J E. Health., vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 552-560, Oct.2006. |
| LS Wilson, RW Gill, IF Sharp, J. Joseph, SA Heitmann, CF Chen, MJ Dadd, A Kajan, AF Collings and M Gunaratnam. Building the Hospital Without Walls –a CSIRO home telecare initiative. Telemedicine Journal, 6, 275-281 (2000) |
| M.S.Brown, L.S.Wilson, B.D.Doust, R.W.Gill and C.Sun. Knowledge-based interpretation and analysis of medical images: application to chest X-rays. Computerized medical Imaging and Graphics, 22 463-47(1998) |
| L.S.Wilson, M.L.Neale, H.E.Talhami and M.Appleberg, Preliminary Results from Attenuation-Slope Mapping of Plaque using Intravascular Ultrasound, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 529-542 (1994) |
| L.S.Wilson, Description of Broad-Band Pulsed Doppler Ultrasound Processing Using the Two-dimensional Fourier Transform, Ultrasonic Imaging, 13, pp 301-315, 1991 |
| D.E.Robinson, L.S.Wilson and T.Bianchi. Beam Pattern (Diffraction) Correction for Ultrasonic Attenuation Measurement. Ultrasonic Imaging 6, pp. 293-303, 1984 |
| L.S.Wilson, D.E.Robinson and B.D.Doust. Frequency Domain Processing for Ultrasonic Attenuation Measurement in Liver. Ultrasonic Imaging, 6, pp. 278-292, 1984. |
| L.S.Wilson and D.E.Robinson. Ultrasonic Measurement of Small Displacements and Deformations of Tissue. Ultrasonic Imaging, 4, pp. 71-82, 1982 |
| D.J.McCleese and L.S.Wilson. Cloud Top Heights from Temperature Sounding Instruments. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 102, pp. 781-790, 1976. |
| J.Bell, A.D.Bray, S.A.David, B.V.Denehy, L.Goorevich, L.Horton, J.G.Loy, C.B.A.McCusker, P.Nielsen, A.K.Outhred, L.S.Peak, J.Ulrichs, L.S.Wilson and M.M.Winn. The Upper End of the Observed Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum. J. Phys. A, 7, pp.990-1009, 1974. |
Number of citations
| ISI | 823 |
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| Google Scholar | 1023 |