Elizabeth is a Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor at Monash University and an NHMRC Leadership Fellow. She is a registered nurse and a registered pharmacist, as well as a Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist and a Certified Practitioner of Human-Centered Design. Elizabeth is a Credentialled Pharmacist for the conduct of medication management reviews. In addition, she is a current member of the Transitions of Care and Primary Care Leadership Committee of Advanced Pharmacy Australia. Elizabeth enjoys collaborating with students, early career professionals and consumers in effort to enhance medicines safety.

Her research areas of interest and expertise include health care communication, equity in service delivery outcomes, medicines safety, digital health, and patient and family engagement in care. She has led multidisciplinary teams using diverse research designs, including observational cohort studies, clinical audits, mixed methods designs, testing and implementation of interventions, and co-design approaches. She also has an interest in using implementation science and communication theory to enhance quality, safety, and health system performance.

Elizabeth conducts interdisciplinary research, partnering with health professionals and consumers, professional organisations, policy agencies, and government bodies aimed at improving medicines safety in hospitals, residential aged care homes and in the community. Her work focuses on individuals with complex needs and priority populations, to enhance quality, safety, and health system performance. These priority populations include people of cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds, older people with multiple co-morbidities, and people living in rural and remote areas.