Associate Professor Louise Stone
Areas of expertise
- Primary Health Care 420319
- General Practice 420304
- Mental Health Services 420313
- Psychiatry (Incl. Psychotherapy) 320221
- Professional Education And Training 390305
Biography
Louise is a general practitioner with clinical, research, education and policy expertise in mental health. She is an Associate Professor in the Social Foundations of Medicine group at the ANU Medical School, and lectures in the Masters of Culture, Health and Medicine program where she teaches a curriculum integrating social science and medicine. Louise has worked in urban, regional, rural and remote Australia, and is currently a GP at The Junction, where she works with young people who are homeless or otherwise experience disadvantage. Her research expertise is in implementation science and qualitative methodologies.
Louise is Deputy Chair of the ACT Health Human Research Ethics Committee and is a member of the ACT Medical Board, the GP Mental Health Standard Collaboration, the ANU Medical Board, the ACT clinical leadership forum and the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association. As the Senior Medical Advisor for Australian General Practice training, she was responsible for overseeing the training of 1500 GP registrars a year, driving policy, quality improvement, evaluation and research capacity building. During this time, she developed an educational research grants program and academic registrar program, which allocated up to $2 million in program grants annually.
Louise has presented and published on GP mental health across a number of media, including television (SBS), print media (Sydney Morning Herald, and other broadsheets), radio (ABC Life Matters), medical press (Australian doctor, MJA Insight), academic press, podcasts (with the College of Physicians) and online (The Conversation). She has presented over 200 papers and workshops nationally and internationally on general practice, medical education and mental health. She is known for her innovative pedagogy and her collaborative approach to teaching and research.
Her current research projects include a longitudinal, collaborative youth mental health project, exploring the journeys of young people around the ACT mental health system, and a translational international collaboration exploring the experience and policy responses to sexual harms between doctors.
Publications
- Stone, L, Phillips, C & Douglas, K 2020, 'With the best will in the world: How benevolent sexism shapes medical careers', Medical Education, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 94-97.
- Stone, L 2020, 'Trying to carve nature at its joints: respecting the complexity of psychiatric diagnosis', British Journal of General Practice, vol. 70(699):504.
- Su, W, Stone, L & Blashki, G 2020, 'Improving mental health and reducing suicide risk: How GPs can help during the COVID-19 pandemic', Psychological Medicine, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 59-65.
- Stone, L 2020, 'Life & times: Trying to carve nature at its joints: Respecting the complexity of psychiatric diagnosis', British Journal of General Practice, vol. 70, no. 699, p. 504.
- Stone, L, Waldron, E & Nowak, H 2020, 'Making a good mental health diagnosis: Science, art and ethics', Australian Journal of General Practice, vol. 49, no. 12, pp. 797-802.
- Stone, L, Tapley, A, Presser, J et al. 2019, 'Early career GPs, mental health training and clinical complexity: a cross-sectional analysis', Education for Primary Care, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 62-69.
- Braid, H, Money, T, Dalpadado, R et al 2019, 'Sexual Harassment of Junior Doctors: Helping Whistle Blowers Who Reveal a Significant Mental Health Issue', Journal of Ethics in Mental Health, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1-13.
- Stone, L, Phillips, C & Douglas, K 2019, 'Sexual assault and harassment of doctors, by doctors: a qualitative study', Medical Education, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 833-843.
- Stone, L 2018, 'Disease prestige and the hierarchy of suffering', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 208, no. 2, pp. 60-62.
- Stone, L 2018, 'Schr�dinger's Disease and the Ethics of (Non)Diagnosis: The Problem of Medically Unexplained Symptoms in Contemporary Medical Practice', American Journal of Bioethics, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 18-19.
- Shorthouse, M & Stone, L, eds, 2018, Inequity amplified: climate change, the Australian farmer, and mental health.
- Stone, L & Hooker, C 2017, 'Medically unexplained symptoms and the ethics of diagnosis: what does it mean when the doctor says there's nothing wrong?', in Carol-Ann Farkas (ed.), Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture: Something. Nothing. Everything, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, United Kingdom, pp. 40-55.
- Stone, L, Douglas, K, Mitchell, I et al 2015, 'SEXUAL ABUSE OF DOCTORS BY DOCTORS PROFESSIONALISM COMPLEXITY AND THE POTENTIAL FOR HEALING', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 203, no. 4, pp. 170-171.
- Stone, L 2015, 'Mixed emotional and physical symptoms in general practice: what diagnoses do GPs use to describe them?', Primary Health Care Research and Development, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 207 - 213.
- Stone, L & Gordon, J 2015, 'Learning to provide patient-centered care with patients with medically unexplained symptoms: a grounded theory study in Australian general practice', The International Journal of Person Centered Medicine, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 173-179.
- Stone, L 2015, 'Managing medically unexplained illness in general practice', Australian Family Physician, vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 624-629.
- Stone, L 2014, 'Managing the consultation with patients with medically unexplained symptoms: A grounded theory study of supervisors and registrars in general practice', BMC Family Practice Journal, vol. 15, no. 192, pp. 192-192.
- Stone, L 2014, 'Blame, shame and hopelessness: medically unexplained symptoms and the 'heartsink' experience', Australian Family Physician, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 191 - 195.
- Stone, L 2013, 'MAKING SENSE OF MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED SYMPTOMS IN GENERAL PRACTICE A GROUNDED THEORY STUDY', Mental Health in Family Medicine, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 101-11.
- Stone, L 2013, 'Reframing chaos A qualitative study of GPs managing patients with medically unexplained symptoms', Australian Family Physician, vol. 42, no. 7, pp. 501-502.
- Stone, L 2013, 'Being a botanist and a gardener: using diagnostic frameworks in general practice patients with medically unexplained symptoms', Australian Journal of Primary Health, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 90 - 97.
- Stone, L 2012, 'On botany and gardening Diagnosis and uncertainty in the GP consultation', Australian Family Physician, vol. 41, no. 10, pp. 795-798.
- Stone, L 2011, 'Explaining the unexplainable Crafting explanatory frameworks for medically unexplained symptoms', Australian Family Physician, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 440 - 444.
