Associate Professor Simon Egerton is based at La Trobe’s Bendigo Campus. He's the director of the Technology Innovation Lab and leads the Regional Rural Remote Digital Health Research Group. He specialises in applying technology, Internet of Things and Robotics to improve health and wellbeing outcomes in regional, rural and remote communities through the co-design of digital health research. A focus for Simon's research is the application of digital health technology for the mitigation and management of chronic disease across regional, rural and remote Australia. A notable recent contribution to this work was “Driving digital transformation of regional aged care through the innovation corridor: An Internet of Medical Things Aged Care Service Model”, a project funded by Regional Development Victoria which extended medical services into the homes of those at risk of hospitalization with chronic disease. The project developed IoT Technology to deliver services in rural areas without traditional mobile phone and WiFi coverage, the application and results represented an Australian first.

Simon is co-founder and director of the Creative Science Foundation (CSf), a non-profit foundation based in the United Kingdom dedicated to exploring the use of science fiction as a means to motivate and direct research into new technologies. Simon leads the Creative Robotix project for CSf, a spin off research project which is being adopted into schools across the region and further afield.

Simon is currently supervising PhD projects in the areas listed below. If you would like Simon to consider you as a potential PhD student, please mention one of the areas listed below in an email to him, include why you would like to undertake a project in the area of digital health and relate your explanation to your current interests and background (you are unlikely to receive a reply from Simon otherwise).


Areas of Research Interest:

• Digital Health for chronic disease prevention and management in regional, rural and remote areas
• Internet of Medical Things for hospital in the home services
• Healthcare service delivery in the home
• Telehealth robotics for remote healthcare service delivery
• Artificial Intelligence for improved healthcare service delivery in the home
• Artificial Intelligence for risk stratification and chronic disease management