Louise Prentice
Senior Lecturer
Department of health
University of Tasmania
Australia
Biography
At this time Dr Prentice made another career change, training in Aged Care Medicine for a year at the Alfred Hospital. From 2003 to 2008, she established and ran an ambulatory care clinic in Aged Care/Complex medicine through Eastern Health, Melbourne (The Complex Care clinic), as well as working for Eastern Health ACAS services.In 2008, she made another career change, commencing training in Chemical Pathology, which she completed in 2012.Dr Prentice trained as an endocrinologist, completing FRACP in endocrinology in 1993. She worked in a private practice in Melbourne for three years until deciding to develop skills in epidemiology. She Worked with Professor Flavia Ciccuttini and Professor John McNeil in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University until 2002.From 2012, Dr Prentice has worked as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine, coordinating Functional Clinical Practice (CAM305) and the third year Medicine rotation in the Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS).
Research Interest
Diagnostic chemical pathology
Publications
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Colls J, Betterle C, Volpato M, Prentice L, Smith BR, Furmaniak J. Immunoprecipitation assay for autoantibodies to steroid 21-hydroxylase in autoimmune adrenal diseases. Clinical Chemistry. 1995 Mar 1;41(3):375-80.
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Tanaka H, Perez MS, Powell M, Sanders JF, Sawicka J, Chen S, Prentice L, Asawa T, Betterle C, Volpato M, Smith BR. Steroid 21-hydroxylase autoantibodies: measurements with a new immunoprecipitation assay. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 1997 May 1;82(5):1440-6.
