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Prof Danielle Mazza

MD, MBBS, FRACGP, DRANZCOG, Grad Dip Women’s Health

Telephone: +61 3 9902 4496
   
Facsimile: +61 3 8575 2233
   
Email:

danielle.mazza@monash.edu

Profile

Professor Danielle Mazza is an academic general practitioner and author of the textbook “Women’s health in general practice”. Her major interest is in translational research, particularly. Current research involves closing evidence practice gaps in preventive care, women’s sexual and reproductive health and cancer screening and guideline development and implementation, especially using patient based strategies.

Danielle has previously held the positions of Medical Director of Family Planning Victoria, National Director of Quality Assurance and Continuing Education for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is currently a member of the RACGP’s National Standing Committee on Quality Care and has been on the committee revising the RACGP’s Preventive Care Guidelines (the Redbook, two Medical Service Advisory Committees (advising the Australian Minister for Health and Ageing on evidence related to new medical technologies and procedures) related to cervical screening and until 2008 was a Board member of the Bayside General Practice Network (Division).

In 2009 she completed a prestigious National Institute of Clinical Studies (NICS) – HCF Foundation Fellowship addressing the implementation of preconception care guidelines in the general practice setting.  She remains in active clinical general practice at the Brighton Medical Clinic and in the Choices Clinic at the Royal Women’s Hospital.

Danielle’s focus is on postgraduate training. She is course coordinator of “women’s sexual and reproductive health in general practice” (a unit in the Graduate Diploma of Family medicine) and a Senior Medical Educator for the RACGP’s GPLearrning (online CPD program). She is an examiner for the FRACGP and the AMC. Her higher degree students are undertaking research in women’s sexual and reproductive health and preventive care and she has supervised both Australian and international students.

Professional Activities

Current Appointments

Professor, Department of General Practice, School of Primary Health Care, Monash University

Honours and Awards

2007                NICS- HCF (National Institute of Clinical Studies – Health Contribution Fund Health and Medical Research Foundation) Fellowship

1999                Jean Hailes Memorial Prize , Awarded by the Australian Menopause Society

1996                Roger Wurm Award, Awarded by the Australian Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology

1995                Myriam De Senarclens Award, Awarded by the International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology

1994                Frances Hardey Faulding Memorial Fellowship, Awarded by the RACGP

1994                Alan Chancellor Memorial Award, Awarded by the RACGP

 

Publications since 2004

Refereed primary publications

  1. Hampton K, Mazza D. Should spontaneous or timed intercourse guide couples trying to conceive? Human Reproduction. 2009 In press
  2. Lee W, Mazza D. Reasons for termination of pregnancy in women aged 35 and over. MJA 2009; 191 (3): 188-189
  3. Bilardi JE, Sanci LA, Fairley CK, Hocking JS, Mazza D, Henning DJ, Sawyer SM, Wills MJ, Wilson DA, Chen MY. The experience of providing young people attending general practice with an online risk assessment tool to assess their own sexual health risk. BMC Infect Dis. 2009 Mar 12;9:29.
  4. Harris C, Turner T, Mazza D, Wilkinson F. Guideline development process for the Health for Kids in the South East project. Aust Fam Phys. 2008 : 37, 6, S2-5
  5. Turner T, Wilkinson F, Harris C, Mazza D. Evidence based guideline for the management of bronchiolitis. Aust Fam Phys. 2008 : 37, 6, S6-13
  6. Mazza D, Wilkinson F, Turner T, Harris C. Evidence based guideline for the management of croup. Aust Fam Phys. 2008 : 37, 6, S14-21
  7. Harris C, Wilkinson F, Mazza D, Turner T. Evidence based guideline for the management of diarrhea with or without vomiting in children. Aust Fam Phys. 2008 : 37, 6, S22-29
  8. Abu Hassan Z, Schattner P, Mazza D. Doing a pilot study: why is it essential? Malaysian Family Physician. 2006:1(2 and 3):70-73
  9. Mazza D, Cannold L, Nagle C. Research is needed before GPs can engage in "positive" family planning. Med J Aust. 2006 Jul 17;185(2):121.[IF 2.537  , Cit 1]
  10. Mazza D, Kermond S, Harris C. “I’m just ringing for some advice…..” Consequences of GP Advice Lines. Australian Family Physician, 2006 Jan-Feb;35(1-2):61-2.

Books

  1. Harris M, Bennet J, Del Mar C, Fasher M, Forman L, Johnson C, Furler J, Joyner B, Litt J, Mazza D, Smith J, Tomlins R, Bailey L, London J, Snowdon T . Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Guidelines for preventive activities in general practice 7th Edition. 2009: 1-92
  2. Mazza D. Women’s health in general practice. Butterworth -Heinemann, London. August 2004

Book chapters

  1. Mazza D. Amenorrhoea in Jones R. et al (eds.) Oxford Textbook of Primary Medical Care, Oxford University press, Oxford 2004
  2. Mazza D. Dyspareunia in Jones R. et al (eds.) Oxford Textbook of Primary Medical Care, Oxford University press, Oxford 2004