Dr Lua Perimal-Lewis

Senior Lecturer in Digital Health

College of Science and Engineering

place Tonsley Building
GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Lua is a Research Fellow at Flinders Digital Health Research Centre. Her research flagship area is in 'Digital Health Supporting Our Ageing Society'. Lua is the principal investigator on the Flinders Assistant for Memory Enhancement (FAME) study and is the project coordinator for the Dementia and Aged Care Services project. Lua brings experience in Health Informatics, Biostatistics, Data Science, Hospital Patient Flow Process Mining, Modelling and Simulation.

Qualifications

PhD from Flinders University, South Australia
Masters of Information Technology (Computing) from Flinders University, South Australia
IMIS Graduate Diploma from Institute for the Management of Information Systems, UK
B.SC (Hons.) Computing from University of Greenwich, UK

Honours, awards and grants

Ian Potter Faoundation (2023)
Parkinson’s SA (2021)
Positure UpRite Pilot (2021)
Parkinson’s SA (2020)
COVID-19 Collaborative Research Grant Scheme - Caring Futures Institute (2020)
2020 ECR Kickstart Grant (2020)
Erasmus+ Staff Mobility Scheme (2020)
IN2D Staff Mobility Scheme (2019)
Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Early Career Researchers (2018)
Flinders University Impact Seed Funding for Early Career Researcher (2018)
ATSE Global Connection Fund Priming Grant (2018)
Schoold of Health Sciences Strategic Research Project Grant (2017)
Dementia and Aged Care Services Fund (DACS) - Seed funding (2017)
Faculty of Science & Engineering International Travel Grant (2013)
Faculty of Science and Engineering Research Scholarship (2011)

Topic coordinator
COMP2812 Systems Software
COMP9812 Systems Software
Topic lecturer
COMP2812 Systems Software
COMP9812 Systems Software
Supervisory interests
Ageing
Biostatistics and epidemiology
Data science
Dementia care in hospital
Dementia, carers
Digital health
Digital storytelling
Health informatics
Health services research
Hospital and emergency dept process improvements
Hospital patient flow
Hospital patient journeys modelling
Information systems in health
Process mining
Public health
Stochastic modelling in health
TeleHealth
e-health
Higher degree by research supervision
Current
Associate supervisor: PROTECTIVE EFFECT OF ZERUMBONE COMPOUND IN MICE SCOPOLAMINE-INDUCED DEMENTIA MODEL (Univ. Putra Malaysia) (1)