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Dr Rosalind LauMPH, PhD, M.Ed.Studs, B.App.Sci, SCM, RNReseach Fellow
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Dr Rosalind Lau is a registered nurse, midwife and a trained neonatal nurse. She was a research nurse for five years at the Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne and was involved in several projects including randomized controlled trials, cross-over, case control and cohort studies as well as cross-sectional surveys. She was a Research Assistant at Victoria University, Melbourne for two years and worked on several large surveys on ageing. She joined Monash University in August 2006. Her major contribution is in health psychology, particularly in stress, coping and social support in the field of neonatal nursing. She has published several papers on stress experiences of parents of preterm infants, neonatal resuscitation and ventilation and also health and wellbeing of older people. She has also published two book chapters on stress experiences and ageing issues. Her major interests are statistics and public health research and she has considerable experience in study design, database management and analysis of large data sets.
Lau, R. and Morse, C. 2008. Health and wellbeing of older people in Anglo-Australian and Italian-Australian communities: A rural-urban comparison. Australian Journal of Rural Health. 16:5-11.
McCallion, N., Lau, R., Dargaville, P. and Morley, C. 2007. Neonatal volume guarantee: Effects of spontaneous breathing, triggered and untriggered inflations. Archives of Disease in Childhood, Fetal Neonatal. Published online 8 August, 2007.
Klimek, J., Morley, CJ., Lau, R. and Davies, P. 2006. Does measuring respiratory function improve neonatal ventilation: A randomised controlled trial? Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. Journal of Paediatric Child Health. 42:140-142.
O’Donnell, C., Davis, P., Lau, R., Dargaville, P., Doyle, W. and Morley, C. 2005. Neonatal resuscitation 2: an evaluation of manual ventilation devices and face masks. Archives of Disease in Childhood, Fetal Neonatal Ed. 90 F392-F396.
O’Donnell, C., Davis, P., Lau, R., Dargaville, P., Doyle, W. and Morley, C. 2005. Neonatal resuscitation 3: manometer use in a model of face mask ventilation. Archives of Disease in Childhood, Fetal Neonatal Ed. 90 F397-F400.
De Paoli, T., Lau, R., Davies, P. and Morley, CJ. 2005. Pharyngeal pressure in preterm infants receiving nasal continuous positive airway pressure. Archives of Disease in Childhood and Fetal Neonatal Ed. 90 F79-F81.
De Paoli, T., Morley, C., Lau, R. and Davies, P. 2005. Bubble Nasal CPAP: Does bubbling improve gas exchange? Archives of Disease in Childhood, Fetal Neonatal Ed. 90 F343-344.
McCallioin, N., Lau, R., Dargaville, P. and Morley, C. 2005. Volume guarantee ventilation, interrupted expiration and expiratory braking. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 90: 865-870.
Morley, C., Lau, R., Davies, P. and Morse, C. 2005. What do parents think about enrolling their premature babies in several research studies? Archives of Disease in Childhood and Fetal Neonatal Ed. 90 F225-F228.
Lau, R. and Morse, C. 2003. Stress experiences of parents with premature infants in a special care nursery. Stress and Health, 19:69-78.
