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Public Profile
A/Prof Inacio is an epidemiologist with research interests in the areas of population health surveillance systems (i.e. registries) and utilisation of existing data and informatics to enhance these systems. She is the Director of the Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) at SAHMRI and a Hospital Research Foundation Mid-Career Fellow. ROSA is a SA-based Clinical Quality Registry developed to support the monitoring and evaluation of the quality of ageing and aged care services provided to older Australians. A/Prof Inacio’s work has the goal of identifying good models of care, areas in need of improvement, risk factors for poor health outcomes, and opportunities to improve health and wellbeing of older Australians accessing aged care services.
A/Prof Inacio was trained as an epidemiologist at the Dartmouth Centre for Evaluative Clinical Sciences (MS 2002) and University of California, San Diego (PhD 2013). Between 2004-2015 A/Prof Inacio worked at Kaiser Permanente, the US largest integrated healthcare provider, in the development of orthopaedic registries. She led the development of the largest US Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Registry, the Kaiser Permanente Hip Fracture Registry, and conducted research on leveraging administrative, electronic medical record data, and informatics for population surveillance.
A/Prof Inacio has collaborators at several key institutions involved in registry and registry science including Kaiser Permanente in the US, Swedish Hip Register, Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry, and University of Melbourne SMART Registry. She is also an editor for the Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research journal and a current Associate Member (mentee) of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. In her career, she has received the prestigious US Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) Clinical Research Award for a project she co-led, 3 national and 4 international conference awards and 2 prizes.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, University of California at San Diego
2009 → 2013
Masters, Dartmouth College
2001 → 2002
Bachelor's Degree, University of California at San Diego
1999 → 2001
External positions
Mid-Career Fellow, The Hospital Research Foundation (THRF)
Jan 2020 → Dec 2022Member, North West Adelaide Health Study Advisory Committee
Jun 2019 → …Associate Member (Mentee), Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS)
Mar 2019 → Mar 2021Member, Australian Dementia Network (ADNet) Registry, Steering Committee
Mar 2019 → …Member, American College of Epidemiologists, Finance Committee
Jan 2019 → …Member, Australian Health Research Alliance, Aged Care Research Translation and Impact Network
Dec 2018 → …Member, Australian Association of Gerontology, Research Trust Grants Committee
Oct 2018 → …Adjunct Associate Professor, University of South Australia
Dec 2017 → …Specialist Advisor, Australian Government Therapeutic Goods Administration
Jan 2017 → …Principal Epidemiologist Advisor, Australian Orthopaedic Association
Jan 2016 → …Consultant Epidemiologist, Kaiser Permanente
Mar 2015 → 1 Apr 2019Editor, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
Apr 2014 → …Keywords
- RD Surgery
- aged care
- registries
- ageing
- joint replacement
- surgical outcomes
- quality and safety of care
Network
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Research Output 2007 2019
Corrigendum to ‘Opioid Prescribers to Total Joint Arthroplasty Patients Before and After Surgery: The Majority Are Not Orthopedists’ [The Journal of Arthroplasty 33 (2018) 3118-3124](S0883540318305187)(10.1016/j.arth.2018.05.034)
Namba, R. S., Paxton, E. W. & Inacio, M., 13 Aug 2019, In : Journal of Arthroplasty. 34, 11, p. 2830-2831 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
Lumbar Spine Fusion Patients See Similar Improvements in Physical Activity Level to Non-Spine Fusion Patients Following Total Hip Arthroplasty
Hinman, A. D., Inacio, M., Prentice, H. A., Kuo, C. C., Khatod, M., Guppy, K. H. & Paxton, E. W., 1 Jan 2019, In : Journal of Arthroplasty.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Pain in Older Australians Seeking Aged Care Services: Findings From the Registry of Older South Australians (ROSA)
Inacio, M. C., Visvanathan, R., Lang, C. E., Amare, A., Harrison, S. L. & Wesselingh, S., 6 Mar 2019, In : Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Preoperative Risk Factors for Opioid Utilization After Total Hip Arthroplasty
Prentice, H. A., Inacio, M., Singh, A., Namba, R. S. & Paxton, E. W., 18 Sep 2019, In : The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume. 101, 18, p. 1670-1678 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Prolonged Wait Time Prior to Entry to Home Care Packages Increases the Risk of Mortality and Transition to Permanent Residential Aged Care Services: Findings from the Registry of Older South Australians (ROSA)
Visvanathan, R., Amare, A., Wesselingh, S., Hearn, R., McKechnie, S., Mussared, J. & Inacio, M. C., 1 Mar 2019, In : Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging. 23, 3, p. 271-280 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article