Caption: Dr Liliana Laranjo (MD, MPH, PhD)
The University of Sydney’s Faculty of Medicine Health and WentWest, the Western Sydney Primary Health Network (WSPHN) welcomes Dr Liliana Laranjo (MD, MPH, PhD) to the inaugural position of Senior Lecturer in Community and Primary Health Care Practice at the University of Sydney Medical School.
Liliana is an Early Career Researcher and Medical Practitioner. She completed her training as a General Practitioner in Portugal and earned degrees in Public Health (MPH from Harvard) and Health Informatics (PhD from the University of Lisbon with a Dean’s Award). Before joining the University’s Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre, she worked as an academic at Macquarie University (DHCRC),
“Our relationship with the University of Sydney has flourished thanks to our common vision for the health system of the future,” said Mr Ray Messom, CEO of WentWest, which has partnered with the University of Sydney to jointly fund this role dedicated to Primary Health Care.
“I am very excited and enthusiastic to start this new job, where I will be able to lead a research agenda at the intersection of Primary Care and Digital Health, with a strong emphasis on real-world implementation and dissemination,” Dr Laranjo said.
Liliana will take up the new role from mid-May and work across both institutions. She will continue her roles in Westmead Applied Research Centre and the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre.
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