Rate My Professor Peter Disler

Professor Peter Disler serves as Adjunct Clinical Professor in Rural Health Bendigo at Monash University. He is currently the Director of Medicine and Clinical Dean at Bendigo Health. His distinguished career in medicine and rehabilitation spans over four decades across international institutions. He holds qualifications including PhD, MBBCh, FRACP, and FAFRM. From 1980 to 1987, he worked as a consultant physician and senior lecturer in General Medicine and Rehabilitation at Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. From 1987 to 1993, he was Director and Associate Professor of Rehabilitation at Palmerston North Hospital and Massey University, New Zealand. From 1993 to 2005, he directed and served as Professor of the Rehabilitation Programme at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of Melbourne. Since 2005, he has held the position of Honorary Professor of Medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and University of Melbourne. Since 2004, he has been Honorary Professor in the Department of Palliative Care and Policy at King's College, University of London.

Professor Disler's research specializations include geriatrics, rehabilitation, and dementia, particularly in rural health settings. His work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being. Key publications encompass "Rural general practitioner confidence in diagnosing and managing dementia: A two-stage, mixed methods study of dementia-specific training" (2024, Australian Journal of Rural Health), "A new model for general practice-led, regional, community-based memory clinics" (2022, BMC Primary Care), "Acute Predictors of Social Integration Following Mild Stroke" (2018, Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases), "An evaluation of the additional benefit of population screening for dementia beyond a passive case-finding approach" (2017, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry), and "Impact of multiple low-level anticholinergic medications on anticholinergic load of community-dwelling elderly with and without dementia" (2015, Drugs & Aging). He has led research projects including the Dementia Training Study Centres for Health Professionals (2007-2009) and studies on social aspects of amputation among aging populations (2006). His 18 research outputs, comprising 15 articles and 3 review articles, have accumulated over 3,000 citations, impacting rural healthcare, dementia management, and rehabilitation practices.