Clinical Associate Professor Robyn A Wallace

Robyn’s main work is as a specialist physician in internal medicine working at Calvary Lenah Valley Hospital Tasmania. As part of her clinical work she runs a clinical service, the SHAID clinic- Specialised Healthcare for Adults with Intellectual Disability.  She also conducts research on health issues for adults with intellectual disability and the health-disability interface. Robyn also teaches medical students on health and intellectual disability, and is a clinical associate professor within the University of Tasmania. She has commenced a consultancy service called Health and Intellectual Disability Consultancy.

There is plenty of published evidence describing the disparity of health care outcomes experienced  by people with intellectual disability, the importance of disability supports in enabling access and participation in their health by people with intellectual disability, reasonable adjustments required by health professionals and systems, deficiencies in both health and disability professional and systems around optimal healthcare for adults with intellectual disability, person centredness,  but very little on the practice and structure of a health-disability interface, and what this would look like, how it would be funded, and how it would be implemented. This is an area of my expertise.