Clare Burns

Dr. Clare Burns is an advanced speech pathologist and clinician research fellow at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Queensland, and an honorary senior lecturer at The University of Queensland, Australia (UQ). She has more than 20 years of clinical experience and, over the last 12 years, has conducted research in speech pathology and technology-enabled healthcare. She has developed, evaluated, and implemented a range of telehealth services, incorporating speech pathology (specifically swallowing and head and neck cancer services), multidisciplinary care, and broader allied health services. Dr. Burns coauthored Speech Pathology Australia’s position statement on telepractice and the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia’s clinical practice guidelines for teleoncology, and she has more than 50 publications. She is a guest lecturer for undergraduate and postgraduate students at UQ and an invited presenter at national and international conferences. She is an affiliate of both the Centre for Research in Telerehabilitation and the Centre of Research Excellence in Telehealth at UQ.