MBBS, FRACGP, FAChPM
Associate Professor
Gold Coast Health Service District - Director Palliative Care Services
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Associate Professor
Gold Coast Health Service District - Director Palliative Care Services
Contact Details for Associate Professor Rohan Vora
Biography
Associate Professor Rohan Vora worked for many years as a procedural rural GP in many settings: emergency medicine, anaesthetics, indigenous health, neonatal resuscitation, aged care and mental health. He decided to specialise in Palliative Medicine several years ago and now works as Director of the GCHSD Palliative Care Services. He is keen to develop a seamless population-wide service for all patients and their families receiving Palliative Care in the last 12 months of life. He is passionate about seeing that all patients and their families receive best quality care that is whole-patient centred and Quality of Life (QoL) focussed at the End of Live (EoL). Rohan now enjoys clinical practice, being a team leader, teaching students, and doing research and further study.Research interests
- Advance Care Planning and End of Life Care (last 12 months of life)
- Supportive and Palliative Care - Early symptom management and QOL, depression at EoL, care of the dying, communication and hope in last 12 months of life
- Evidence Based Practice (EBP) and quality care - Evidence Based Decision Making (EBDM) at point of clinical decision making
- Implementation of EBP into clinical practice across a district-wide service
- Quality outcome measurement across a population in all settings
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- Breaking bad news and EoL shared goal setting
- MDT symptom management at EoL
- Evidence Based Practice