Dr Benignus Logan

Medical Monitor

Centre for Health Services Research

benignus.logan@uq.edu.au

Researcher biography

Benignus is a geriatrician who is passionate about working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams to deliver exceptional patient-centred care. He currently holds staff specialist appointments at Mater Hospital Brisbane and The Prince Charles Hospital.

He has a strong interest in research and has embarked on a PhD examining frailty and goals of care in patients living with chronic kidney disease. He holds an appointment working as a clinical academic in Professor Hubbard's team at the University of Queensland's Centre for Health Services Research with a particular remit to support interdisciplinary education and training about frailty.

Prior to his medical training Benignus worked for KPMG, a professional services firm.

Publications

Journal Articles (6)

Conference Papers (3)

Journal Articles

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. doi: 10.1186/s12885-023-10933-z

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

Logan, Benignus, Jegatheesan, Dev, Viecelli, Andrea, Pascoe, Elaine and Hubbard, Ruth (2022). Goal attainment scaling as an outcome measure for randomised controlled trials: a scoping review. BMJ Open, 12 (7) e063061, 1-9. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063061

Logan, Benignus, Fleury, Aisling, Wong, Lillian, Fraser, Sally, Bernard, Anne and White, Ben (2019). Characteristics of patients referred for assessment of decision-making capacity in the acute medical setting of an outer-metropolitan hospital-a retrospective case series. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 39 (1) ajag.12693, e49-e54. doi: 10.1111/ajag.12693

Menon, Shruti, Stansfield, Scott H., Logan, Benignus, Hocking, Jane S., Timms, Peter, Rombauts, Luk, Allan, John A. and Huston, Wilhelmina M. (2016). Development and evaluation of a multi-antigen peptide ELISA for the diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis-related infertility in women. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 65 (9), 915-922. doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.000311

Conference Papers

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.

Logan, B., Fleur, A., Wong, L., Fraser, S., Bernard, A. and White, B. (2018). Characteristics of patients referred for capacity assessments in the acute medical setting of an outer-metropolitan hospital - a retrospective case series. The Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2018, Cutting Edge: Optimising the Journey for Older Surgical Patients, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 27 ‐ 29 June 2018. Richmond, VIC, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/ajag.12551

Logan, B., Chandler, S., Tan, K-S, Fleury, A., Chan, K. W. and Vardesh, D. (2018). Acute kidney injury in surgical patients in an outer-metropolitan hospital. In: 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology (ANZSN), Sydney, NSW Australia, (68-68). 8–12 September 2018.