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Dr Rachael Cvejic
Senior Lecturer

Dr Rachael Cvejic

  • Bachelor of Psychology (Honours), Southern Cross University
  • Master of Brain and Mind Sciences, The University of Sydney
  • PhD (Psychiatry), UNSW Sydney
Medicine & Health
School of Clinical Medicine

I am a registered psychologist and early career researcher with broad research interests including neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry. My clinical and research experience includes working with people with mild and major neurocognitive disorders, intellectual and developmental disability, mental health conditions, and inherited neurodegenerative disorders including fragile X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome and Huntington disease. I am currently involved in a number of educational and research activities in the Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) which aim to improve health outcomes for people with intellectual and developmental disability, neurological conditions, and mental health conditions. My current projects utilise a broad range of research methods including surveys, interviews, Delphi method, and data linkage.
Phone
(02) 9065 1625
E-mail
r.cvejic@unsw.edu.au
Location
Room 241, Biolink Building (E25), UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052

Selection of current research projects

  1. Improving palliative care services for people with an intellectual disability. 
  2. Health profiles, health services use and transition to dementia in individuals with self-harm. 

Past projects

  1. Understanding the health and support needs of younger people with disabilities discharged from hospital to residential aged care. 
  2. Using big data to understand the health status, service use, and service pathways of people with less common types of dementia. 
  3. Addressing preventable disease burden to improve health outcomes for people with schizophrenia and related psychoses. 
  4. Equipping future psychiatrists to meet the mental health needs of people with intellectual and developmental disability. 
  5. Scoping work for a State-wide tertiary intellectual disability mental health service. 
  6. Thinking and motor skills in premutation carriers of Fragile X. 
  7. Using big data to understand the health status and service use of people with motor neurone disease. 
  8. Using big data to understand the predictors of repeated self-harm in people with mental health and drug and alcohol comorbidity. 

Membership

 

In the media

My Research Supervision

Peiwen Liao

My Teaching

I currently teach into Phase 3 Medicine (Psychiatry, MFAC3503).