Assistant Professor Elly Scheermeyer coordinates the Primary Health Care Research Evaluation & Development program at Bond University and supervises a number of Research Fellows on the program. She coordinates the student Cochrane Review Group and participates in a number of Cochrane Reviews. Her research interest is in Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and she is setting up a national database for children with PWS on growth hormone. She is also developing a web-based algorithm tool to diagnose rare obesity syndromes for referral. Assist Prof Scheermeyer obtained her PhD from Griffith University. Prior to this she studied and tutored at James Cook University and the University of Amsterdam in behaviour and ecology. Her career moved towards medical research due to the birth of a child with a severely disabling undiagnosed condition. For many years she has been involved in volunteer work and advocacy for the plight of people with PWS. She instigated the setting up of a multi-disciplinary clinic with several specialists at the Mater Hospital and in establishing and coordinating a parent support association for this syndrome in Queensland. Presently she is the President of the National PWSA of Australia.
Articles
Surgical repair of spontaneous perineal tears that occur during childbirth versus no intervention (with S Elharmeel, Y Chaudhary, S Tan, A Hanafy, and ML van Driel), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2011)
Women with intellectual disabilities: a study of sexuality, sexual abuse and protection skills (with Gillian Eastgate, Mieke van Driel, and Nicholas Lennox), Australian Family Physician (2011)
Design and evaluation of a new device for fungal spore aerosolization for laboratory applications (with Igor E. Agranovski), Journal of aerosol science (2009)
Fungi have significant health effects varying from serious allergic reactions from inhalation to toxic effects...
Host plants, temperature and seasonal effects on immature development and adult size of Euploea core corinna (Lepidoptera:Danainae) (with Rhondda E. Kitching and Roger L. Jones), Australian Journal of Zoology (1990)
Seasonal and spational variation in juvenile survival of the cabbage butterfly Pieris rapae : evidence for patchy density-dependence (with Rhondda Jones, Vincent G. Nealis, and P M. Ives), Journal of Animal Ecology (1987)
Books
Biology of Australian Butterflies. Monographs of Australian Lepidoptera (with Roger L. Kitching, Rhonddda E. Jones, and Naomi E. Pierce) (1999)
Book Chapters
The crows, Euploea species, with notes on the blue tiger, Tirumala hamata (Nymphalidae: Danainae), Biology of Australian Butterflies. Monographs of Australian Lepidoptera (1999)