Professor Anthony Maeder

Academic Level E

College Services, Nursing and Health Sciences

anthony.maeder@flinders.edu.au

Bedford Park (2.06)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Anthony Maeder joined Flinders University in April 2016 as Chair in Digital Health Systems and retired in 2020. His prior position was at Western Sydney University, where he founded the Telehealth Research and Innovation Laboratory (THRIL) in 2010. He was previously appointed as Research Director of the CSIRO Australian eHealth Research Centre in Brisbane, from 2004 to 2008. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society. He was a member of the Standards Australia IT-14 Health Informatics Committee from 2006. Professor Maeder was president of the Australasian Telehealth Society in the period 2010-2012, and on the Governing Board of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth 2013-2018. In 2015 he was appointed as the Fulbright Distinguished Professor in Life Sciences and Agriculture at Kansas State University.

Qualifications

Grad Cert (Higher Ed), Queensland University of Technology 1999

PhD (Computing), Monash University 1992

MSc (Computer Science), University of Natal 1982

BScHons (Computer Science), University of the Witwatersrand 1980

BSc, University of Natal 1979

Honours, awards and grants

Fulbright Distinguished Professor in Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kansas State University 2015

Honorary Professor, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal 2014

Distinguished Visiting Professor in Information Systems, Rhodes University 2013

Key responsibilities

Digital Health Systems

Supervisory interests

Ageing

Artificial intelligence and image processing

Computer and electronic engineering

Computer human interfaces

Computer science

Digital health

Health and wellbeing resilience

Health behaviour change

Health data management

Human Machine Interface and Human Factors

Intelligent agents

Intelligent systems

Machine learning

Mobile technologies

Software engineering

TeleHealth

Web 2.0 tools

eHealth

Higher degree by research supervision

Current

Principal supervisor: Characterising activity-based health behaviours through personal monitoring (1)

Associate supervisor: Cyber Security and Medical Devices (1), Patient Safety and Medical Devices (1), Evaluation and benefits analysis methods in telehealth (1), Improving the Dietary Habits of the Elderly Using ICT (1), Medication reminder system based on conversational agent (1), RFID location tracking technology for Health Smart Home (1), The use of Memory Encoding Strategies to Improve everyday Memory Performance and Promote Functional Perormance in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (1)

Completion

Principal supervisor: A framework for understanding and predicting the take up and use of social networking toos in a collaborative environment (1), Analysis of physiological signals using a fuzzy logic system (1), Classification of Common Basic Activities of Daily Living based using a rule based system (1)

Associate supervisor: Advances in clustering based on inter-cluster mapping (1)

Higher degree by research student achievements

Nathan Poultney

Global Telehealth 2016 Honourable Mention Student Paper Award - NOV 2016

Expert for media contact

Computers

Engineering - Biomedical

Engineering - Computer Systems

Engineering - Electrical and Electronic

Health management, policy and ethics

Information management

Information systems