RTRU Senior Lecturer, Dr Fiona Graham,  work on Occupational Performance Coaching (OPC; a parent-coaching intervention) has lead to a new collaborative research partnership with clinical researchers in Hong Kong.  Recently this group was awarded a grant by the Research Fund Secretariat from Food and Health Bureau, under the Health Care Promotion Scheme in Hong Kong […]

The management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has transformed in recent decades so the inflammatory arthritis is often well controlled with medications used in a treat-to-target strategy.  This “T2T” strategy requires measurement of RA disease activity using validated measures and increasing treatment until disease remission or at least a low disease activity state is achieved.  Currently […]

Just this month, my colleagues and I were award a significant research grant from the Health Research Council of New Zealand to undertake a feasibility study to test a brief self-management intervention for people who have been admitted to hospital for problems with chronic obstructive lung disease.  I am undertaking this study with colleagues from […]