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Dr Simone Harrison is the Principal Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Skin Cancer Research Group in the School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, within the North Queensland Centre for Cancer Research (NQCCR) at James Cook University in Townsville. She received her B.Sc. (1989) from the School of Biological Sciences at James Cook University and both her Masters of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (1997) and PhD (2000) from the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University where she has been involved in epidemiological research investigating skin cancer, its precursor lesions, risk markers and sun exposure since 1990. Her main research interests include the epidemiology and prevention of melanoma, melanocytic naevi (moles), and non-melanocytic skin cancer; measurement of personal exposure to solar UV radiation; rural, remote and tropical health; the incidence of coastal drowning and envenomation by cubozoan jellyfish.
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Review Article 15 November 2006
Obstacles and solutions to maintenance of advanced procedural skills for rural and remote medical practitioners in Australia
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