Associate Professor Danielle Mazza

Associate Professor Danielle Mazza  is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of General Practice at Monash University and author of the textbook “Women’s health in general practice”. Danielle has previously held the positions of Medical Director of Family Planning Victoria, National Director of Quality Assurance and Continuing Education for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Danielle’s early career research was on the prevalence of domestic violence sexual assault and child sexual abuse in a general practice setting and its relationship to psychotropic drug use by women. She published  one of the first Australian papers looking at the issue of women and violence in a clinical setting, gaining wide media coverage and informing and giving impetus to policy development on women and violence in Australia and overseas.

Her research and presentations have been awarded several national prizes including the Jean Hailes Memorial Prize, the Roger Wurm Award, Frances Hardey Faulding Memorial Fellowship and the Alan Chancellor Memorial Award and internationally the Myriam De Senarclens Award. 

In Feb 2009 she completed a prestigious National Institute of Clinical Studies (NICS) – HCF Foundation Fellowship undertaking implementation research in preventive care in general practice specifically related to preconception care.

She remains in active clinical practice at the Brighton Medical Clinic and the Royal Women’s Hospital.

Qualifications

MD, MBBS, FRACGP, DRANZCOG, Grad Dip Women’s Health

Professional Activities and Memberships

1. Member (RACGP Representative), Medical Services Advisory Committee on Human
2. Papilloma Virus: triage for pap smears
3. Member (RACGP Representative), Medical Services Advisory Committee on Liquid Based
4. Cytology
5. Member of the RACGP National Standing Committee – Quality Care
6. Member of the RACGP Red Book (Preventive Guidelines for General Practice) working group
7. Member, Wyeth Women’s Health Advisory Board
8. Member Editorial Board, Asia Pacific Journal of Family Medicine
9. Member Editorial Board, Journal of Medical Case Reports
10. Examiner for the FRACGP
11. Examiner for the Australian Medical Council
12. Member of the Australian Reproductive Health Association
13. Member of the Women’s Health Special Interest Group of the Public Health Association of
14. Australia
15. Member of the Monash Division of General Practice
16. Member of the Bayside General Practice Network (Formerly the Central Bayside Division of
17. General Practice)
18. Member of the South City Division of General Practice
19. Member of the Australian Medical Association
20. Registered Medical Practitioner with the Medical Board of Victoria

Research Interests

1. Guideline development and implementation in general practice
2. Methodological issues involved in the development and evaluation of interventions to bring about change in clinical practice
3. Enhancing the delivery and uptake of preventive care in general practice
4. Web based risk assessment tools
5. Screening in general practice and the utility of health checks
6. The GP role in cancer care: screening, diagnosis and management
7. Women’s sexual and reproductive health care in general practice particularly:
   • Cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination
   • Delayed childbearing
   • Preconception care
   • Fertility awareness
   • Unplanned pregnancy
   • Enhancing the efficacy of contraception
   • Chlamydia screening

Current Projects and Activities

1. Implementing preconception are guidelines in general practice
2. Patient based strategies to implement preventive care guidelines
3. Development of a web based preconception care risk assessment tool “Preconcept”

Publications of Associate Professor Danielle Mazza

Contact details:

Phone: 03 8575 2290
Fax: 03 8575 2233
Email: danielle.mazza@med.monash.edu.au