Griffith University

MBBS, MGPPsych, PhD

Academic Lead for the Doctor and the Patient theme
Deputy Head of School

Program Lead in Interprofessional Learning, Griffith Health Institute for the Development of Education and Scholarship (Health IDEAS)

Gold Coast Health Service District - Senior Medical Officer in HIV Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine

Contact details for Associate Professor Gary Rogers

Biography

Associate Professor Rogers undertook his medical degree at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1984.  After early postgraduate training in surgery, he was admitted to registration as a Specialist in General Practice in 1993, and practiced with a particular focus on sexual health and HIV medicine.  He developed and led an interprofessional Primary Health Care service, the Care and Prevention Programme, focused on people living with HIV and people at increased risk of HIV in South Australia in the 1990s and early part of the current century. 

He holds a Masters degree in General Practice Psychiatry from Monash University and his PhD, from the University of Adelaide, was awarded in 2006 for a thesis entitled ‘Feeling Queer: Can a Primary Health Care approach mitigate health inequity experienced by homosexually active men?’. 

Associate Professor Rogers has worked in health professional education throughout his career and immediately before coming to Griffith University spent two years in the small island countries of the Pacific coordinating international efforts to support effective responses to sexually transmissible infections and training health care teams in HIV care.  He is a Senior Medical Officer within the Division of Internal Medicine at Gold Coast Hospital, where he provides expert medical care to people living with HIV in the region.

He also leads the program in the Griffith Health Institute for the Development of Education and Scholarship, which assists schools in the Health Group to work together to ensure that all health professional graduates from Griffith University will have the necessary competencies to work effectively in interprofessional teams.

Research interests    

• Health professional education, with a focus on the use of extended simulation and trained simulated patients for learning clinical and interprofessional skills
• Methods for selecting medical students with the aim of identifying candidates who have the highest potential for effective human engagement and professionalism
• Sexual health and HIV medicine, particularly in relation to Pacific Island countries and territories

Publications

Book chapter

• Rogers G, Mijch A, Brotherton A (2008)  Signs and symptoms of chronic HIV disease, in HIV, viral hepatitis and STIs: A Guide for Primary Care  Bradford D, Dore G, Hoy J, Matthews G, Kidd M, Mijch A, Strasser S (eds), Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, Sydney.

Refereed journal articles

• Lee A, Steketee C, Rogers GD, Moran M (2012) Towards a theoretical framework for curriculum development within and between health professions. Focus on Health Professional Education. (in press)
• Hattingh HL, McGuire T, Rogers GD (2010) Introducing interprofessional learning sessions on pain management into medical and pharmacy programs: feasibility and impact.  Focus on Health Professional Education 12(2):48-61.
• Ryan CE, Kama M, Darcy A, Aleksic E, Mirza T, Chaudhary A, Oelrichs RB, Rogers GD, Crowe SM (2009) HIV Type 1 in Fiji Is Caused by Subtypes C and B. AIDS Research Human Retroviruses 25(12): 1355-1358.
• Mao L, Newman CE, Kidd MR, Saltman DC, Rogers G, Kippax SC (2009) Self-reported sexual difficulties and their association with depression and other factors among gay men attending high HIV-caseload general practices in Australia. Journal of Sexual Medicine 6(5):1378-1385.
• Carey DL, Baker D, Petoumenos K, Chuah J, Rogers GD, Watson J, Cooper DA, Emery S, Carr A (2009) Poly-L-lactic acid for HIV-1 facial lipoatrophy: 48-week follow-up. HIV Medicine 10(3):163-172.
• Mao L, Kidd MR, Rogers G, Andrews G, Newman CE, Saltman DC, Kippax SC, Booth A (2009) Social factors associated with Major Depressive Disorder in homosexually active, gay men attending general practices in urban Australia. Australia & New Zealand Journal of Public Health 33(1): 83-86.
• Newman CE, Kippax SC, Mao L, Rogers GD, Saltman DC, Kidd MR (2009) Features of the management of depression in gay men and men with HIV from the perspective of Australian general practitioners. Family Practice 26(1):27-33.
• Mao L, Kippax SC, Newman CE, Andrews GA, Rogers G, Saltman DC, Kidd MR (2008)  Rates of depression among men attending high HIV caseload general practices in Australia. Mental Health Family Medicine 5(2): 79-83.
• Mallon PWG, Sedwell R, Rogers G, Nolan D, Unemori P, Hoy J, Samaras K , Kelleher A, Emery S, Cooper DA, Carr A (2008) Effect of rosiglitazone on peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ gene expression in human adipose tissue is limited by antiretroviral drug–induced mitochondrial dysfunction. Journal of Infectious Diseases 198(12): 1794–1803.
• Rogers G, Curry M (2008) Depression and HIV risk taking (letter).  Clinical Infectious Diseases 46(8): 1321.
• Carey DL, Baker D, Rogers GD, Petoumenos K, Chuah J, Easey N, Machon K, Cooper DA, Emery S, Carr A (2007) A randomized, multicenter, open-label study of poly-L-lactic acid for HIV-1 facial lipoatrophy. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (JAIDS) 46(5): 581-589.
• Rogers GD (2007) Health priorities and perceived health determinants among South Australians attending GLBTI festival events. Health Promotion Journal of Australia 18(1): 57-62.

Refereed conference papers

• Jones de Rooy NN, Rogers GD.  Reflections on undergraduate scenario-based interprofessional education.  Oral presentation at the 12th International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare, San Diego, USA, January, 2012.  
• Rogers G, Jones de Rooy N, McConnell H, Lombard M for the CLEIMS Teaching Team. CLEIMS: Outcomes of a randomised educational trial of extended immersion in medical simulation.  Oral presentation at SimHealth2011 conference, Sydney, September, 2011.
• Rogers G, Jones de Rooy N.  Pus under pressure: a new part task trainer to simulate the procedure for drainage of a small abscess under local anaesthesia.  Poster presentation at SimHealth2011 conference, Sydney, September, 2011.
• Jones de Rooy NN, Rogers GD, Della Bosca D. Designing Wearable Catheterisation Trainers for Australian Medical Students. Oral presentation at the joint Engineering and Physical Sciences in Medicine and Australian Biomedical Engineering Conference, Darwin, August, 2011.
• Hattingh HL, Ellem F, Rogers GD.  Medication safety interprofessional learning sessions involving medical and pharmacy students.  Oral presentation at 9th International Conference Life Long Learning in Pharmacy (abstract OC030), Rotorua, New Zealand, June-July 2011.
• Rogers GD, McConnell HW, Jones de Rooy NN, Lombard M for the CLEIMS teaching team.  Outcomes of a randomised educational trial of extended immersion in medical simulation.  Oral presentation at the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Education conference (abstract 4269), Alice Springs, June, 2011.
• Rogers GD, Jones de Rooy NN, Lombard M, Della Bosca D, Saul C.  Improving the human elements of urinary catheterisation training – a randomised study of a new wearable catheterisation trainer. Oral presentation at the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Education conference (abstract 4268), Alice Springs, June, 2011.
• Lombard M, Rogers GD, Alldrige L, Poropat A.  What makes a good doctor?  How would patients like us to select medical students?  Oral ‘PeArLS’ presentation at the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Education conference (abstract 4219), Alice Springs, June, 2011.
• Jones de Rooy NN, Rogers GD, Della-Bosca D, Saul C.  Catheterisation trainer comes alive - a randomised study of a new wearable catheterisation trainer.  Poster at Asia Pacific Meeting on Simulation in Health Care (poster 19), Hong Kong, May, 2011.
• Rogers GD, McConnell H, Jones de Rooy N, Milligan E, Lombard M.  CLEIMS:  First report on a randomised trial of extended case simulation to contextualise medical student learning and develop clinical reasoning. Oral presentation at SimTect Health conference, Melbourne (page 22), September 2010  
• Rogers G, McConnell H, Lombard M, Jones de Rooy, N.  Overcoming barriers to critical clinical skill acquisition: Structured Clinical Insights Modules (SCIMs).  Oral presentation at the Association for Health Professional Education (ANZAME) conference, Townsville (page 161), July 2010.
• Rogers G, McConnell H, Lombard M, Jones de Rooy, N.  Overcoming barriers to measuring learning in the affective domain:  Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of learners’ reflective journals. Oral presentation at the Association for Health Professional Education (ANZAME) conference, Townsville (page 178), July 2010.
• Rogers G, McConnell H, Lombard M, Jones de Rooy, N.  Overcoming barriers to high quality evidence in health care education: Re(e)-forming the randomised educational trial.  Oral ‘PeArLS’ presentation at the Association for Health Professional Education (ANZAME) conference, Townsville (page 155), July 2010.
• Rogers G, Milligan E, McConnell H, Lombard M, Jones de Rooy, N.  Structured Clinical Insights Modules (SCIMs): High fidelity simulated scenarios for learning clinical skills and clinical reasoning. Educate & Innovate Conference, Brisbane, March 2010.
• Hattingh L, Rogers G. Interprofessional learning sessions focusing on medication safety. Educate & Innovate Conference, Brisbane, March 2010.
• Rogers G, Milligan E.  Selecting the right medical students: Is there a future role for psychometric personality testing?  Australian and NZ Institute of Health Law and Ethics Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, July 2009.
• Hattingh L, McGuire T, Rogers G.  Introducing interprofessional pain management learning sessions as part of medical and pharmacy programs.  Australian and New Zealand Association of Medical Educators Conference, Launceston (p36) 2009.
• Wilson S, Rogers G, Broadley S.  Utility and validity of Mini-CEX in a graduate entry medical program. Australian and New Zealand Association of Medical Educators Conference, Launceston, (p216) 2009.
• Rogers G.  STI update: Epidemiology, prevention and treatment in the Pacific.  A Community Response to HIV/AIDS in the Pacific Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.  Invited keynote address, June 2009.
• Newman C, Kippax S, Mao L, Rogers G, Saltman D, Kidd M. General practitioner descriptions of challenges in the management of depression in gay men and men with HIV.  Australasian Society for HIV Medicine Conference (p152) 2008.
• Carey D, Baker D, Petoumenos K, Chuah J, Rogers G, Watson J, Cooper D, Emery S, Carr A.  Poly-L-lactic acid for HIV-1 facial lipoatrophy: 48-week follow up.  Australasian Society for HIV Medicine Conference (p175) 2008.
• Rogers G.  Capacity building for HIV care teams in Pacific small island countries.  Clinical Educators Symposium affiliated with International AIDS Society Conference, Sydney, 2007.
• Carey D, Baker D, Petoumenos K, Chuah J, Easey N, Machon K, Rogers G, Cooper D, Emery S, Carr A. Poly-L-lactic acid (PLA) for facial lipoatrophy: A randomised, multi-centre trial.  Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Los Angeles, USA (abstract 40) 2007.
• Rogers GD, Iniakwala D.  Establishing antiretroviral treatment services in Pacific Island countries and territories. Australasian Society for HIV Medicine Conference (p157) 2006.
• Rogers GD, Lawless AC, Moulding NT.  Just how does male circumcision prevent transmission of HIV to women? – A critical analysis of discourses in the recent medical literature.  Australasian Society for HIV Medicine Conference (p81) 2006.
• Newman C, Mao L, Kippax S, Kidd M, Saltman D, Digiusto E, Körner H, Rawstorne P, Donohue W, McMurchie M, Ellis D, Rogers G, Booth A, Andrews G, Pell C, Watson J, Westacott R. Primary health care project on HIV and depression.  Australasian Society for HIV Medicine Conference (p237) 2006.

Other published articles

Letter to the Editor

• Rogers GD, Jones de Rooy NN, Bowe P (2011) Simulated death can be an appropriate training tool for medical students. Medical Education 45(10):1061.

Current teaching areas

• Professional Communication and History program in Year 1
• Clinical skills training workshops across all years
• Clinical Learning through Extended Immersion in Medical Simulation (CLEIMS) in years 3 and 4
• HIV medicine large group sessions (Year 2) and clinic-based teaching (Year 3)
• Medical education selective attachments in Year 4