Helen Ackland

Dr Ackland is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University in Australia, where she co-ordinates several units in undergraduate biomedical science and medicine, teaching in the areas of health policy, health systems and public health. Dr Helen Ackland is also the Senior Clinical Trauma Research Fellow at the National Trauma Research Institute at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, and is the recipient of the Alfred-Monash University Intensive Care Research Fellowship. She has been the recipient of several fellowships and grants from the Victorian Trauma Foundation and the Transport Accident Commission for acute spinal column injury research, and has been recipient of the prestigious Spinal Research Award from the Spine Society of Australia. Her primary research interests include cervical spine trauma epidemiology, morphology, management, imaging practices and outcomes, and ladder fall-related injuries.