Sheree Smith

Professor Sheree Smith

Professor of Nursing

Adelaide Nursing School

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Professor Sheree Smith is an internationally recognised researcher in respiratory care and leads a program of acute care and primary health services research. Professor Smith holds the following degrees and certificates: PhD [Public Health, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)]; Master of Social Planning and Development (Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland); Postgraduate Certificate in Health Economics (University of Aberdeen); Bachelor of Nursing (QUT); and a Postgraduate Cardiothoracic Nursing Certificate. Sheree has received national and international research awards including the inaugural Co-operative Research Centre for Asthma and Asthma Australia PhD top-up scholarship and the first international Post-doctoral Capability Bursary to the University of Oxford’s Department of Primary Health Care and Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. Sheree was awarded the Millennium Bursary from the Worshipful Company of Curriers for COPD intermediate care research whilst working at St Mary’s Hospital, Department of Respiratory Infection and Medicine’s Imperial Clinical Respiratory Research Unit. In 2010, Professor Smith completed a bespoke project for the UK’s National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) and she developed organisational models for NHS health care trusts to improve the completion of NIHR portfolio studies and enhance the capacity and capability of research support staff. These models have been implemented across various hospital and health care services in England. Professor Smith is a member of four global respiratory, sleep and critical care organisations; Thoracic Society of Australia & New Zealand (TSANZ), Asia Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR), European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the American Thoracic Society (ATS). She is a member of the ERS College of Experts and the ATS nursing assembly who identified research priorities for Lung Health, Sleep and Critical Care. Sheree was awarded Fellow of the American Thoracic Society in 2021 and was the first Australian nurse to receive this award. Professor Smith continues as a member for NHMRC and MRFF panels. Sheree reviews grant and fellowship applications for numerous funding bodies across the globe such as NIHR (UK), Asthma (UK), Medical Research Foundation (UK), European Science Foundation and the Portuguese Agency for Science and Technology Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (FCT). Sheree has held an Imperial College London Visiting Professorship. Professor Smith was an external advisory board member of NIHR North-West London’s Collaborative Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC), a Healthcare Prioritisation panel member for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council UK and the non-medical chair of the NSW Ministry of Health’s Agency for Clinical Innovation Respiratory Network (ACI).

The overarching domains of my research are health behaviour and non-pharmacological interventions associated with lung, sleep and heart health and my current research are in the areas of:

  • Infectious disease including long Covid and mask fit studies
  • Health technology
  • Hospital acquired complications
  • Respiratory health care/service delivery and redesign that incorporates co-morbid conditions that contribute to breathlessness
  • Respiratory Health and multi-morbidity including psychological distress and pain
  • Patient reported outcome and experience methods and measurement

The high standard of this work has resulted in the establishment and maintenance of local, national and international collaborations, published manuscripts, invited plenary lectures and presentations at international scientific meetings, and as an invited reviewer for a large number of national and international granting bodies and membership of NHMRC panels.

Research collaborations and highlights

  • Current International Research Partnerships: Professor Janet Larson (University of Michigan); Professor William Man (Imperial College London); Dr Nicola Roberts (Napier Edinburgh University) Dr Anne-Marie Russell (University of Birmingham).
  • NIH-NINR intramural programme. As a post-doctoral researcher I was invited and subsequently completed an intramural programme at National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) Bethesda, Maryland USA.
  • International –Core investigator for the American Thoracic Society’s (ATS) Cancer Related Fatigue in Patients with Lung Cancer Research Statement; ATS International Nursing Research Priorities statement led project for European Respiratory Society nurses group studying barriers to conducting research, building research capability and capacity of European Respiratory Nurses 
  • National Research Partnerships: Professor Christine McDonald (University of Melbourne/ Austin Health); Professor Grant Waterer, (University of Western Australia/ Royal Perth Hospital Hospital); Professor Allen Cheng (Monash University), Professor Ian Yang (University of Queensland); Professor Guy Marks (University of New South Wales); Professor Brian Oliver (University of Technology Sydney); Associate Professor Belinda Cochrane, SWSLHD
  • Overseas research training positions as post-doctoral fellow and senior research fellow, Department of Primary Health Care University of Oxford and Imperial College Clinical Respiratory Research Unit 
  • Formative research training with Dr Gillian Lupton UQ (Masters) and Professor Charles Mitchell UQ (PhD) 
  • Initial research activities were as Respiratory and Intensive Care research project manager at Mater Adult Public Hospital 

 Research skills extension training

  • 2025 Leading Others Through Change, University of Adelaide
  • 2024 GCP update University of Adelaide
  • 2023 Health Economics Update Workshop SPHERE, UTS Sydney
  • 2022 Implementation Science MOOC – Global Health, University of Melbourne
  • 2021 Big Data MOOC, University of California – San Diego
  • 2020 Statistics and Data Analysis in Public Health Refresher, Imperial College London
  • 2020 Emerging Respiratory Viruses including Covid19: methods for detection, prevention, response  and control, WHO course
  • 2020 ePROTECT Respiratory Course, World Health Organization (WHO)
  • 2018 GCP Update, South Western Sydney Clinical Trials Unit
  • 2015 Records Management, Imperial College London e-course
  • 2015 Freedom of Information and Data Protection Act, Imperial College London e-course
  • 2015 Introduction to Statistical Process Control, Online Course, Australia
  • 2014 Global Research Ethics and Integrity Online Course, University of Western Sydney
  • 2014 Good Clinical Practice Epigeum Online Course, University of Western Sydney
  • 2013 Post Graduate Certificate in Health Economics, University of Aberdeen
  • 2012 Cochrane Systematic Review Workshop, December 5 -7th Westmead Hospital 2011
  • Intramural programme NIH - National Institute of Nursing Research as a NIH special volunteer Bethesda Maryland USA
  • 2011 Clinical Audit Course, North West London Hospital, Northwick Park, London
  • 2010 Introduction to Health Economics, HERC University of Oxford
  • 2010 Good Clinical Practice Update, North West London Hospitals, London
  • 2008 Good Clinical Practice Guideline for Research Certificate endorsed by Royal Holloway,
  • University of London, International Conference on Harmonisation Cert No1616-1-3466
  • 2008 Fundamentals of Epidemiology Course, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • 2008 Intermediate Level, Statistics Summer School, Imperial College London
  • 2008 Ethics Workshop, Nuffield Hospital, University of Oxford
2024 The Effects of Thirdhand Smoke from Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Vapes on Cells: A Systematic Review Stracci J, Ganesan AP, Pitogo PG, Smith SM School of Biomedicine,
University of Adelaide		 $500
2024 Young people’s views on vaping, disposable vapes and climate change - A systematic review Pitogo PG Ganesan AP,
Stracci J, Smith SM		 School of Biomedicine,
University of Adelaide		 $500
2024
Do STEM and HASS students differ in beliefs on thirdhand smoke?
 		 Ganesan AP,Stracci J, Pitogo PG,
Smith SM		 School of Biomedicine,
University of Adelaide		 $500
2022

Evaluating the impact of “Living Better with COVID-19@Home”: a co-designed, self-directed

COVID-19 home management program for people from Arabic speaking communities.

Tang, C., 

Smith, SMS.,

Blackstock F.,

Lim, D

 WSU – School of Health Sciences $9,934
2022 Co-designing a COVID self management toolkit for Arab speaking adults

Tang, C.,

Smith, SMS.,

Blackstock F., 

Kattan R.,

Sidhu, B., Brady, B.,

Saliba, M.

 Innovative Grant for Multicultural NSW $230,000
2021/2

Respiratory, Sleep,

Environmental and Occupational

Health Step-up Fellowship

 Smith SMS

SPHERE RSEOH

Clinical Academic Group

(CAG)

 $20,000
2020 Breathless Clinic – working together to defeat breathlessness in COPD

Cochrane B

Kemp T

Smith T

Foo S

Smith SM

  GSK Pharmaceuticals $324,000
2020 Pandemic intervention and Monitoring System (PiMS)

Matthews, J

O'Reilly G, Luckoff C

McMahon J

Rogers B Smith SM et

al

 Alfred Foundation $70,000
2019 Short videos for patients to increase uptake of referral to pulmonary rehabilitation: a multicentre randomised controlled trial.

Dennis, S

Tionville, C

Smith SM

Harrington, Z,

McKeough, Z

McNamara, R

 NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation $30,000
2019 Developing a decision aid for managing patients with acute respiratory infections

Marks, GB

Smith, SM

Garden, F

SPHERE RSEOH

CAG Development

Grant

 $20,000
2018 COPD PACE in Primary Care

Smith SMS

Marks G

Jalalubin B

Garden F

Liaw T

SPHERE Respiratory

CAG

 $19,910

 

2018

 Developing beginning level research skills in respiratory nurses

 

Smith SM

 

Glaxo Smith Kline

(GSK) Grant

 

$3,900

I’m an experienced academic and I’ve enthusiastically invested time and energy into my teaching. I incorporate evidence-based approaches to my teaching and learning strategies. The curriculums I develop are underpinned with a learner centred approach as an integral part of adult participatory education. I’ve held university academic leadership positions and have been responsible for post graduate programs and units. These skills are employed in supporting my higher degree students (Master's degrees and PhD) to achieve their ultimate goal of obtaining their degree and to become confident independent researchers.

  • Position: Professor of Nursing
  • Phone: 83133904
  • Email: sheree.smith@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: West End Health Precinct
  • Building: AHMS - Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences, floor Fourth Floor
  • Org Unit: Adelaide Nursing School
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