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Dr Heather Rickard

Position: Lecturer
Division/Portfolio: Division of Health Sciences
School/Unit: School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences
Campus: City East Campus
Office: P5-36
Telephone: +61 8 830 22946
Fax: +61 8 830 22389
Email: Heather_dot_Rickard_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Heather.Rickard


Teaching interests

  • Clinical and diagnostic bacteriology
  • Antibiotic structure, function and resistance mechanisms
  • Molecular pathogenesis of bacteria

I teach the following courses

MEDI 3003Microbiology 300
MEDI 3008Molecular Pathogenesis 300
MEDI 4006Microbiology 401


Professional associations

Australian Society for Microbiology


Qualifications

PhD

Graduate Diploma in Medical Laboratory Science


Research interests

  • antibiotics and resistance mechanisms
  • clinical microbiology including infection control
  • diagnostics
  • scholarship of teaching

Research publications

SCHABRUN, SIOBHAN; CHIPCHASE, LUCY; RICKARD, HEATHER Are therapeutic ultrasound units a potential vector for nosocomial infection?. Physiotherapy Research International. 11(2):61-71, June 2006.




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