Associate Professor Femke Buisman-Pijlman is making a global impact through training, innovation and research.Associate Professor Femke Buisman-Pijlman has been making a global impact through training, innovation and research for decades. She is a leader in online education and curriculum development, specialising in continued education and has been awarded the South Australian Early Career STEM Educator of the Year - Tertiary Education and several teaching scholarships.
As the Academic program Director (health) at MSPACE, she supports a multimillion dollar teaching portfolio for the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, the largest faculty at The University of Melbourne. During her academic career at The University of Adelaide she developed and coordinated full online postgraduate degrees in Addiction Studies and was the program leader for the International Programme in Addiction Studies at The University of Adelaide, run with King's College London (UK) and Virginia Commonwealth University (USA). She also developed a very successful free online Mooc on Managing Addiction, a Major for the Bachelor of Health and Medical Sciences and helped implement addiction studies in a range of health courses. Femke also established a new cross-discipline research line investigating the role of oxytocin the impact of early adversity on mental health and addiction through the life span and has over 2000 citations.She works to provide flexible, engaging, inclusive and high-quality teaching solutions that are market driven for local and global markets. She enjoys working in the area of health and health sciences to support the health professionals and leaders of the future. Femke also loves to engage with the public, e.g. as scientist in schools and neuroscientist in resident supporting STEM and Women in Science initiatives.
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Variability of the cortisol awakening response and morning salivary oxytocin in late adolescence
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Can neuroimmune mechanisms explain the link between ultraviolet light (UV) exposure and ad..
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Risk factors and assessment tools for mother-infant bonding: A scoping review to assist fu..
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Oxytocin as an Indicator of Psychological and Social Well-Being in Domesticated Animals: A..
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Are the protective benefits of vitamin D in neurodegenerative disease dependent on route o..
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Chronic stress induces hypersensitivity of murine gastric vagal afferents
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRESS AND SUBSTANCE USE: A REVIEW AND INTEGRATIVE MODEL
Conference Proceedings
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Projects
2019 CI NHMRC National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs (NCCRED) Seed Funding Grants.2018 CIA Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation: Early life adversity: trajectories to mental health and drug use. $60,0002017 Erasmus+ Staff exchange to University of Trento EU Erasmus program $2,5002017 UofA Prefered partner grant Visiting academic Freiburg University- Prof. Markus Heinrichs UofA 50002016 Scholarship Australian Higher Education Sector Leadership Colloquium National Excellence in Educational Leadership Initiative 2,5002016 E-learning grant Faculty of Health Sciences2015 MOOC team leader: Managing Addiction: a framework for successful treatment UofA PVCA 2014 Buisman-Pijlman equipment grant Alcohol self-administration equipment, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences $8,5002014 Collins-Praino, Buisman-Pijlman South Australian Community Grant: National Science week
,5002012 South Australian Early Career STEM Educator of the Year -Tertiary Education Government of South Australia (0,000)2012 Travel award from the US National Institute on Drugs Abuse to present at NIDA International Forum and CPDD US National Institute on Drugs Abuse 10002012 Faculty of Health Sciences International Conference Award (FICA) UofA/Fac2012 Mobile centrifuge unit for research on biomarkers in mental health research in perinatal and adolescent populations. UofA/School 4,0002012 Self-administration apparatus to study food preference, learning and addiction in rat and mice. NHMRC equipment grant. 9,00001997 - 2001 PhD Scholarship Utrecht University and Solvay PharmaceuticalsScholarly Works
Displaying the 46 most recent scholarly works by Femke Buisman-Pijlman.
Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Erasmus+ Staff exchange to University of Trento, Italy
UofA Preferred partner grant Visiting academic Freiburg University- Prof. Markus Heinrichs
Scholarship Australian Higher Education Sector Leadership Colloquium
South Australian Early Career STEM Educator of the Year - Tertiary Education
Executive Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
PhD scholarship and stipend
Credentials
Positions
Positions
Academic Program Director
Melbourne School Of Professional And Continuing Education
Education
Education
Higher Education (Online Learning)
Adelaide University
Infant Mental Health
The Women's and Children's Hospital
PhD in Medicine (Psychopharmacology)
Utrecht University
MSc in Biology (Health Sciences and Ethology)
Utrecht University
BSc in Biology
Utrecht University