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Meet the Clinical Advisory Group

Guiding PHASES with Primary Sense for impact in general practice and communities

The Clinical Advisory Group (CAG) is the Clinical Compass of the PHASES with Primary Sense project. Comprising GPs, practice managers, researchers, and digital health leaders from across Queensland and beyond, the group ensures the project remains grounded in real-world practice and patient care.

Their role is to keep PHASES practical, relevant, and impactful — so that every decision connects directly to outcomes for general practice teams and the communities they serve.

To understand what success would look like, we turned to the people shaping the project. Each member of the Clinical Advisory Group shared their vision for the future of general practice and community health.

We asked each member:

“Fast forward three years: what will have changed for general practice and consumers if the PHASES project has been successful?”

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Prof Kim Greaves

Clinical Lead, PHASES Program, Cardiologist, Epidemiologist, Sunshine Coast Health
Increased CVD screening and treatment, seamless practice workflow integration, improved professional satisfaction, and a healthier population with reduced cardiovascular disease burden. 
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Dr Amresh Gul

General Practitioner
Kirwan
Cardiovascular health especially prevention will be improved in GP Practice and reduce the burden on hospitals. 
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Anthea Blower

Practice Manager
Gold Coast 
Primary Sense with PHASES will enable proactive, data-driven general practice, improving prevention, chronic disease management, and patient outcomes. 
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A/Prof Carissa Bonner

Associate Professor of Behavioural Science, University of Sydney 
Every eligible patient for a Heart Health Check in QLD knows their CVD risk and understands what they can do to reduce their chance of heart attack and stroke. 
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Prof Liz
Sturgiss

Prof Community Clinical Education, Bond University 
Success would be a streamlined approach to personalised cardiovascular risk assessment. We need solutions that fit within the workflow of daily practice. 
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Prof Jenny Doust

Clinical Professorial Research Fellow, Australian Women and Girls' Health Research Centre 
More people will have had a discussion with their general practitioner about how they can prevent heart disease.
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Julie Hall-Brown

Senior Digital Health Program Coordinator, Brisbane South PHN 
If successful, predictive tools will enable proactive heart disease intervention, fostering healthier communities with longer lives, thus easing the healthcare burden.
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Prof Mark Morgan

Professor of General Practice,
Bond University
I look forward to a day when every person in Queensland has risk factors for heart attacks and strokes identified and improved. 

Patricia Taylor

Senior Primary Care Engagement Officer, Northern Queensland PHN
If PHASES with Primary Sense works as planned, GPs will have smarter tools, care will be more proactive, and people will enjoy earlier support, better health, and fairer access across communities.
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Dr Zoltan Bourne

Director
Maleny Doctors 
I would hope that systematic cardiovascular risk screening had become a core 'business-as-usual' function in Queensland General Practices. 

Dr Peter Adkins

Senior Clinical Advisor – Person Centred Care, Brisbane South PHN 
Improved quality of care indicators in the primary care setting through addressing early and ongoing risk factors in cardiovascular disease. 

Funded by the Queensland Health Clinical Research Fellowship, the PHASES Linkage project connects general practice cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk data with hospitalisation and mortality data. This study aims to better understand how CVD risk impacts hospitalisation rates and assess the accuracy of the new CVD risk prediction equation in identifying high-risk individuals within Queensland’s population. 

The project will: 

  • Estimate the number of heart attacks and strokes that could be prevented with improved treatment for high CVD risk. 
  • Identify gaps in CVD prevention to inform future care strategies. 

Running in parallel with the PHASES project, PHASES Linkage highlights the power of data-driven insights to improve cardiovascular outcomes and reduce hospitalisations.