Helen Warren-forward
Health Sciences
Newcastle University
Australia
Biography
Associate Professor Helen Warren-Forward is a medical physicist employed in the School of Health Sciences (SHS), Faculty of Health and Medicine at The University of Newcastle with teaching responsibilities in the School of Health Sciences and School of Physics. Her contribution to the University is one of significant and sustained leadership. She has held major leadership roles within the School and Faculty and have contributed to University policy (especially research higher degrees) through membership of University committees. It is through this leadership that she is acknowledged by her peers for the innovation that she brings to clinical practice education and research. Associate Professor Warren-Forward is a positive role model to academics (especially females) within the School of Health Sciences through her leadership skills and commitment to the University. In the wider community, she is an internationally recognized leading researcher in the field of radiation dosimetry and protection and has a growing reputation as a researcher whose goal is to improve the early diagnosis of women at risk of breast cancer.
Research Interest
Clinical Sciences,
Publications
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James D, Warren-Forward H. The diagnostic accuracy of strategies used to identify early pregnancy: a systematic review. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports. 2012 Jan 1;10(56):1-0.
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Warren-Forward H. Diagnostic radiography I: interaction of ionising radiation with the human body. Radiographer: The Official Journal of the Australian Institute of Radiography, The. 2003 Apr;50(1):23.
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Warren-Forward H, Cardew P, Smith B, Clack L, McWhirter K, Johnson S, Wessel K. A comparison of dose savings of lead and lightweight aprons for shielding of 99m-Technetium radiation. Radiation protection dosimetry. 2007 Apr 1;124(2):89-96.
