Dr Emily Gordon
Clinical Senior Lecturer
Centre for Health Services Research
Researcher biography
Emily Gordon is a Consultant Geriatrician at the Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) and a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Health Services Research at the University of Queensland. Emily was awarded her MBBS in 2009 and completed nine years of clinical training in South-East Queensland hospitals. In 2014, she commenced a PhD, titled 'Sex differences in frailty', under the mentorship of Professor Ruth Hubbard. She was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians as a General Physician and Geriatrician in 2018 and her PhD was conferred in 2020.
In her current clinical role, Emily leads a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive geriatric assessment and management to frail older adults in acute and subacute inpatient and outpatient settings. Academically, she is considered to be an emerging leader in frailty research, particularly in the field of sex differences and pathophysiology of frailty, with a growing track record of publications in high-quality peer-reviewed journals. She also has a special interest in outcomes of importance for frailty patients and their caregivers. She has been award two Princess Alexandra Research Support Scheme Grants and a Queensland Health Clinical Research Fellowship in the last two years.
Emily encourages and supports Geriatric Medicine Trainees to consider higher degree by research pathways and is increasingly sought after as a supervisor and mentor, particularly by female trainees. She also supervises junior medical officers to complete research projects and is actively involved in teaching at the University of Queensland.
Book Chapter
Navarro-Pardo, Esperanza, Villacampa-Fernández, Patricia, Hubbard, Ruth E. and Gordon, Emily (2017). Frailty and comorbidities: frailty in women. Menopause: a comprehensive approach. (pp. 303-315) edited by Antonio Cano. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-59318-0_19
Journal Articles
Ward, David D., Flint, Jonny P., Littlejohns, Thomas J., Foote, Isabelle F., Canevelli, Marco, Wallace, Lindsay M. K., Gordon, Emily H., Llewellyn, David J., Ranson, Janice M., Hubbard, Ruth E., Rockwood, Kenneth and Stolz, Erwin (2024). Frailty Trajectories Preceding Dementia in the US and UK. JAMA Neurology, 82 (1), 1-11. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.3774
Reid, Natasha, Young, Adrienne, Baldassar, Loretta, Christoffersen, Anja, Comans, Tracy, Conroy, Simon, Etherton‐Beer, Christopher, Ferris, Jason, Singh, Maria Fiatarone, Fox, Sarah, Gordon, Emily H., Ghosh, Manonita, Guha, Chandana, Hilmer, Sarah, Kouladjian O’Donnell, Lisa, Logan, Benignus, Ludlow, Kristiana, Miller, Michelle, Morgan, Mark, Mudge, Alison, Muscedere, John, Reidlinger, Donna, Rockwood, Kenneth, Saunders, Rosemary, Ward, David, Yates, Paul and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2024). The Australian Frailty Network: Development of a consumer‐focussed national response to frailty. Australasian Journal on Ageing. doi: 10.1111/ajag.13365
Botero, Liliana, Banks, Merrilyn D., Gordon, Emily H., Bauer, Judy and Young, Adrienne M. (2024). Letter to the editor: In-hospital nutritional decline: A call for action and future research. Clinical Nutrition, 43 (9), 2119-2121. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2024.07.045
Kwok, Vivian Ka-Yan, Reid, Natasha, Hubbard, Ruth E., Thavarajah, Harshithaa and Gordon, Emily H. (2024). Multicomponent perioperative interventions to improve outcomes for frail patients: a systematic review. BMC Geriatrics, 24 (1) 376. doi: 10.1186/s12877-024-04985-4
Graham, Frederick A., Kelly, Lisa, Burmeister, Elizabeth A, Henderson, Amanda, Broome, Annette, Hubbard, Ruth E. and Gordon, Emily H. (2024). The impact of a hospital-based special care unit on behavioural and psychological symptoms in older people living with dementia. Age and Ageing, 53 (4) afae081, 1-12. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afae081
Gordon, Emily H., Ward, David D., Xiong, Hao, Berkovsky, Shlomo and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2024). Delirium and incident dementia in hospital patients in New South Wales, Australia: retrospective cohort study. BMJ, 384 e077634, 1-10. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2023-077634
Botero, Liliana, Banks, Merrilyn D., Gordon, Emily H., Bauer, Judy and Young, Adrienne M. (2024). Incidence and outcomes of in-hospital nutritional decline: a prospective observational cohort study in adult patients. Clinical Nutrition, 43 (5), 1057-1064. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2024.03.014
Martin, Jissa, Reid, Natasha, Ward, David D., King, Shannon, Hubbard, Ruth E. and Gordon, Emily H. (2024). Investigating sex differences in risk and protective factors in the progression of mild cognitive impairment to dementia: a systematic review. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 97 (1), 101-119. doi: 10.3233/jad-230700
Gordon, Emily H and Hubbard, Ruth E (2024). Harming those we intend to help: hospital-acquired complications in patients with dementia. Medical Journal of Australia, 221 (8), 420-421. doi: 10.5694/mja2.52463
Logan, B., Viecelli, A. K., Johnson, D. W., Aquino, E. M., Bailey, J., Comans, T. A., Gray, L. C., Hawley, C. M., Hickey, L. E., Janda, M., Jaure, A., Jose, M. D., Kalaw, E., Kiriwandeniya, C., Matsuyama, M., Mihala, G., Nguyen, K. H., Pascoe, E., Pole, J. D., Polkinghorne, K. R., Pond, D., Raj, R., Reidlinger, D. M., Scholes-Robertson, N., Varghese, J., Wong, G., Hubbard, R. E., Buckle, Graham, Carswell, Phil ... on behalf of The GOAL Trial Investigators (2023). Study protocol for The GOAL Trial: comprehensive geriatric assessment for frail older people with chronic kidney disease to increase attainment of patient-identified goals—a cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials, 24 (1) 365. doi: 10.1186/s13063-023-07363-4
Ward, David D., Martin, J. and Gordon, E. H. (2023). Is there a sex-frailty paradox in dementia?. Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging, 27 (12), 1281-1283. doi: 10.1007/s12603-023-2040-8
Misquitta, Karen, Reid, Natasha, Hubbard, Ruth E. and Gordon, Emily H. (2023). Factors associated with entry to residential care in frail older inpatients. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 42 (4), 720-727. doi: 10.1111/ajag.13231
King, Shannon J., Reid, Natasha, Brown, Sarah J., Brodie, Lucinda J., Sia, Aaron D. H., Chatfield, Mark D., Francis, Ross S., Peel, Nancye M., Gordon, Emily H. and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2023). A prospective, observational study of frailty, quality of life and dialysis in older people with advanced chronic kidney disease. BMC Geriatrics, 23 (1) 664, 664. doi: 10.1186/s12877-023-04365-4
Weerasekera, Shavini, Reid, Natasha, Young, Adrienne, Homes, Ryan, Sia, Aaron, Giddens, Fiona, Francis, Ross S., Hubbard, Ruth E. and Gordon, Emily H. (2023). Putting guidelines into practice: Is frailty measurement at the time of kidney transplant eligibility assessment valid, feasible, and acceptable to patients?. Transplantation Direct, 9 (11) e1548, 1-8. doi: 10.1097/txd.0000000000001548
Gordon, Emily H., Peel, Nancye M., Hubbard, Ruth E. and Reid, Natasha (2023). Frailty in younger adults in hospital. QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 116 (10), 845-849. doi: 10.1093/qjmed/hcad173
Shafiee Hanjani, Leila, Fox, Sarah, Hubbard, Ruth E., Gordon, Emily, Reid, Natasha, Hilmer, Sarah N., Saunders, Rosemary, Gnjidic, Danijela and Young, Adrienne (2023). Frailty knowledge, training and barriers to frailty management: a national cross‐sectional survey of health professionals in Australia. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 43 (2), 271-280. doi: 10.1111/ajag.13232
Homes, Ryan A. P., Giddens, Fiona, Francis, Ross S., Hubbard, Ruth E., Gordon, Emily H. and Midwinter, Mark J. (2023). The sublingual microcirculation and frailty index in chronic kidney disease patients. Microcirculation, 30 (5-6) e12819, e12819. doi: 10.1111/micc.12819
Fletcher, James A., Logan, Benignus, Reid, Natasha, Gordon, Emily H., Ladwa, Rahul and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2023). How frail is frail in oncology studies? A scoping review. BMC Cancer, 23 (1) 498, 498. doi: 10.1186/s12885-023-10933-z
Reid, Natasha, Young, Adrienne, Hanjani, Leila Shafiee, Hubbard, Ruth E. and Gordon, Emily H. (2023). Authors' reply to De Martinis and colleagues. Maturitas, 169, 54-54. doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2022.12.002
Arnautovska, Urska, Siskind, Dan, Pearson, Ella, Baker, Andrea, Reid, Natasha, Kwan, Winona Wing Ling, Wang, Nancy, Gordon, Emily, Hubbard, Ruth and Warren, Nicola (2023). Comprehensive geriatric assessment for younger outpatients with severe mental illness: protocol for a feasibility study. BMJ open, 13 (2) e069518, e069518. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069518
Kao, Jonathan, Reid, Natasha, Hubbard, Ruth E., Homes, Ryan, Hanjani, Leila Shafiee, Pearson, Ella, Logan, Benignus, King, Shannon, Fox, Sarah and Gordon, Emily H (2022). Frailty and solid-organ transplant candidates: a scoping review. BMC Geriatrics, 22 (1) 864, 864. doi: 10.1186/s12877-022-03485-7
Fox, Sarah, Reid, Natasha, Gordon, Emily H., Janda, Monika and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2022). What do geriatricians think about Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment? A survey of Australian and New Zealand geriatricians. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 42 (1), 127-139. doi: 10.1111/ajag.13145
Reid, Natasha, Young, Adrienne, Hanjani, Leila Shafiee, Hubbard, Ruth E. and Gordon, Emily H. (2022). Sex-specific interventions to prevent and manage frailty. Maturitas, 164, 23-30. doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2022.05.012
Gordon, Emily H. and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2022). Frailty: understanding the difference between age and ageing. Age and Ageing, 51 (8) afac185, 1-6. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afac185
Warren, Nicola, Gordon, Emily, Pearson, Ella, Siskind, Dan, Hilmer, Sarah N., Etherton‐Beer, Christopher, Shafiee Hanjani, Leila, Young, Adrienne M., Reid, Natasha and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2022). A systematic review of frailty education programs for health care professionals. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 41 (4), e310-e319. doi: 10.1111/ajag.13096
Pearson, Ella, Siskind, Dan, Hubbard, Ruth, Gordon, Emily, Coulson, Elizabeth, Arnautovska, Urska and Warren, Nicola (2022). Frailty and Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Community Mental Health Journal, 59 (1), 1-5. doi: 10.1007/s10597-022-00998-8
Pearson, Ella, Siskind, Dan, Hubbard, Ruth E., Gordon, Emily H., Coulson, Elizabeth and Warren, Nicola (2022). Frailty and severe mental illness: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 147, 166-175. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.01.014
Gordon, E. H., Reid, N., Khetani, I. S. and Hubbard, R. E. (2021). How frail is frail? A systematic scoping review and synthesis of high impact studies. BMC Geriatrics, 21 (1) 719, 719. doi: 10.1186/s12877-021-02671-3
Fox, Sarah T., Reid, Natasha, Tornvall, Ida, Weerasekera, Shavini, Gordon, Emily and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2021). Anticipating the ageing trajectories of superheroes in the Marvel cinematic universe. The BMJ, 375 068001, e068001. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-068001
Reid, Natasha, Weerasekera, Shavini, Hubbard, Ruth E. and Gordon, Emily H. (2021). Frailty in ethnic minority women. Maturitas, 152, 26-31. doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2021.07.005
Gordon, E. H., Peel, N. M., Chatfield, M. D., Lang, I. A. and Hubbard, R. E. (2020). Frailty: a cost incurred by reproduction?. Scientific Reports, 10 (1) 10139, 10139. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-67009-2
Gordon, Emily H. and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2020). Frailty in older adults: moving from measurement to management. Medical Journal of Australia, 213 (7), 314-315. doi: 10.5694/mja2.50778
Gordon, Emily H. and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2019). Differences in frailty in older men and women. Medical Journal of Australia, 212 (4) mja2.50466, 183-188. doi: 10.5694/mja2.50466
Gordon, E. H. and Hubbard, R. E. (2019). Do sex differences in chronic disease underpin the sex-frailty paradox?. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, 179, 44-50. doi: 10.1016/j.mad.2019.02.004
Gordon, E. H. and Hubbard, R. E. (2018). Physiological basis for sex differences in frailty. Current Opinion in Physiology, 6, 10-15. doi: 10.1016/j.cophys.2018.02.013
Gordon, Emily H, Peel, Nancye M and Hubbard, Ruth E (2018). The male-female health-survival paradox in hospitalised older adults. Maturitas, 107, 13-18. doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2017.09.011
Gordon, Emily H. and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2017). The Pathophysiology of Frailty: Why Sex Is So Important. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 19 (1), 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2017.10.009
Gordon, E. H., Peel, N. M., Samanta, M., Theou, O., Howlett, S. E. and Hubbard, R. E. (2017). Sex differences in frailty: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Experimental Gerontology, 89, 30-40. doi: 10.1016/j.exger.2016.12.021
Conference Papers
Kwan, Winona, Arnautovska, Urska, Siskind, Dan, Pearson, Ella, Baker, Andrea, Reid, Natasha, Wang, Nancy, Gordon, Emily, Warren, Nicola and Hubbard, Ruth Eleanor (2023). Pilot study on the feasibility of using Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for younger frail patients with severe mental illness. Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2023, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 10–12 May 2023. Richmond, VIC Australia: John Wiley & Sons.
Kwok, Vivian Ka-Yan, Gordon, Emily, Hubbard, Ruth Eleanor, Thavarajah, Harshithaa and Reid, Natasha (2023). Multicomponent perioperative interventions to improve outcomes for frail patients: A systematic review. Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2023, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 10–12 May 2023. Richmond, VIC Australia: John Wiley & Sons.
King, Shannon J., Reid, Natasha, Brown, Sarah J., Brodie, Lucinda J., Sia, Aaron D. H., Chatfield, Mark D., Francis, Ross S., Peel, Nancye M., Gordon, Emily H. and Hubbard, Ruth Eleanor (2023). A longitudinal study of frailty, quality of life and dialysis in older patients with advanced chronic kidney disease. Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2023, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 10–12 May 2023. Richmond, VIC Australia: John Wiley & Sons.
Baral, S., Reid, N., Siskind, D., Warren, N., Gordon, E. and Hubbard, R. (2022). Mental health diagnoses, frailty, and outcomes in a large cohort of Australian inpatients. The Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2022, Perth, WA Australia, 8 - 10 June 2022. Richmond, VIC Australia: John Wiley & Sons.
Gordon, Emily, Peel, Nancye, Chatfield, Mark, Lang, Iain and Hubbard, Ruth (2021). Frailty: A cost incurred by reproduction?. The Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2021, 20/20 Hindsight: Vision for the Future, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 19-21 May 2021. Richmond, VIC, Australia: John Wiley & Sons.
Logan, B., Viecelli, A. K., Johnson, D. W., Tong, A., Comans, T., Janda, M., Pond, C., Pascoe, E., Peel, N. M., Gray, L., Pole, J., Polkinghorne, K., Jose, M., Gordon, E. H., Scholes-Robertson, N., Bailey, J., Robison, L., Hawley, C., Varghese, J., Kiriwandeniya, C., Reidlinger, D. and Hubbard, R. E. (2020). THE GOAL TRIAL PROTOCOL: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for Frail Older People With Chronic Kidney Disease to increase attainment of patient-identified goals - A cluster randomised controlled trial. 55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology (ANZSN), Online, 28 November‐2 December 2020. Richmond, VIC Australia: Wiley-Blackwell.
Sin, J. C. K., Bell, K., Kelly, L., Gordon, E. and Hubbard, R. (2019). Therapeutic prevention of fractures after neck of femur fracture - a rehabilitation perspective. The Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2019 “Geriatric Medicine ‐ Best care to the end”, Adelaide, Australia, 13-15 May 2019. Richmond, VIC, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia. doi: 10.1111/ajag.12661
Gordon, E., Peel, N. and Hubbard, R. (2018). The male-female health-survival paradox in hospitalised older adults. British Geriatrics Society Communications to the Autumn Meeting, London, United Kingdom, 22-24 November 2017. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afy030.01
Gordon, E., Gilbert, S., Austin, W., Luke, L. and Harvey, K. (2017). The memory clinic experience survey. The Australian & New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting “Older People's Care through Community, Collaboration & Communication”, Rotorua, New Zealand, 10-12 May 2017. Hoboken, NJ United States: Wiley-Blackwell.
Gordon, E., Peel, N. and Hubbard, R. (2017). The male-female health-survival paradox in hospitalised older adults. The Australian & New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting “Older People's Care through Community, Collaboration & Communication”, Rotorua, New Zealand, 10-12 May 2017. Hoboken, NJ United States: Wiley-Blackwell.
Gordon, E., Peel, N. M., Samanta, M. and Hubbard, R. E. (2016). Sex differences in frailty: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2016, “The AGEnder Paradox”, Cairns, QLD Australia, 1–3 June 2016. Richmond, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia. doi: 10.1111/ajag.12337
Thesis
Gordon, Emily (2020). Sex differences in frailty: the Frailty Index and the male-female health-survival paradox. PhD Thesis, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.620