Professor Stuart Wark

Stuart Wark is currently the Deputy Head of School at the School of Rural Medicine. He has a longstanding focus on developing better models of healthcare support in rural areas, working across both industry and academia. His contribution to the field was recognised with Churchill (2012) and Endeavour Fellowships (2018), supporting him to gain a greater understanding of overseas models of healthcare provision. For more than 30 years, he has worked with individuals, families and healthcare providers and has established relationships between end-users and researchers through collaborative projects that resulted in mutually-beneficial outcomes. This background provides him with a comprehensive grounding in the existing and emerging issues facing rural people. He has successfully led recent small and large community-embedded projects, and has extensive experience at effectively translating healthcare research into practice.