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Associate Professor Moira Sim

Head of School Medical Sciences

Current Teaching

• Postgraduate Medicine

Background

Associate Professor Moira Sim is a general practitioner and a specialist addiction medicine physician with over 20 years in clinical practice in the community and has been at ECU since 2004. Moira leads the Systems Intervention Research Centre for Health and is Coordinator for Postgraduate Medicine at Edith Cowan University. She has worked to increase access to quality care through professional education, advocacy and the establishment of system change through many roles in the healthcare system.

Moira is a Clinical Associate Professor at the School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Western Australia, liaison GP and Chair of the Medical Executive Committee at Osborne Park Hospital, a member of the Impairment Review Committee at the Nurses and Midwives Board of Western Australia and a panellist on the Impairment Review Committee and Professional Standards Committee for the Medical Board of Western Australia. She is a member of the Medical Defence Association President’s Medical Liaison Council, the Western Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care, the Musculoskeletal Network Executive Advisory Group and the Psychotherapeutic Drugs Committee of the Western Australian Therapeutics Advisory Group.

Moira has previously been Chair of the Osborne Division of General Practitioners, Deputy Chair of General Practice Divisions of Western Australia, Deputy Chairperson of the Western Australian Faculty of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and Board Director of Australian Divisions of General Practice. She is a peer reviewer for the journals Australian Family Physician and Drug and Alcohol Review.

Professional Memberships

• Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
• Chapter of Addiction Medicine, Royal Australian College of Physicians
• Perth Primary Care Network
• Medical Defence Association

Research Areas and Interests

• Translation of evidence to clinical practice, alcohol and other drugs, prevention in health, managing behaviour in clinical practice.