Dr Benignus Logan
Medical Monitor & ATH - Senior Lecturer
Centre for Health Services Research
Researcher biography
Dr Logan is a geriatrician working at The Prince Charles Hospital and Mater Hospital Brisbane. He has expertise in dementia, behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), frailty, and goal-directed care in chronic disease. He holds a PhD from the University of Queensland, has a strong publication record, and has contributed to national research programs. Dr Logan is experienced in leading multidisciplinary teams, driving quality improvement initiatives, and is recognised as a skilled communicator and collaborator.
Journal Articles
Logan, Benignus, Young, Adrienne, Ludlow, Kristiana, Ward, David, Hanjani, Leila Shafiee, Reid, Natasha and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2025). Frailty nexus: community of practice for frailty researchers and healthcare professionals. The Journal of Frailty and Aging, 14 (5) 100074, 100074. doi: 10.1016/j.tjfa.2025.100074
Ludlow, Kristiana, Logan, Benignus, Arora, Jhalak, Martin, Sarah, Miller, Elizabeth, Hubbard, Ruth E., Warren, Nicola, Gallagher, Olivia and Saunders, Rosemary (2025). Consumers' Perspectives on the Design of a New Digital Frailty Education Course, ‘Focus on Frailty’: A Qualitative Co‐Design Study. Health Expectations, 28 (3) e70287, e70287-3. doi: 10.1111/hex.70287
Ludlow, Kristiana, Martin, Sarah, Logan, Benignus, Hubbard, Ruth, Warren, Nicola, Gallagher, Olivia, Kwok, Bonnie and Saunders, Rosemary (2025). ‘Focus on Frailty’: Co-Designing Digital Frailty Education with Healthcare Students. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, Volume 18, 2305-2317. doi: 10.2147/jmdh.s511359
Mihala, Gabor, Hubbard, Ruth Eleanor, Logan, Benignus, Johnson, David Wayne, Viecelli, Andrea Katharina and Forbes, Andrew Benjamin (2025). Comprehensive geriatric assessment for frail older people with chronic kidney disease to increase attainment of patient-identified goals: Statistical analysis plan for a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 152 107881, 1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2025.107881
Logan, Benignus, Ludlow, Kristiana, Pascoe, Elaine M., Viecelli, Andrea K., Johnson, David W., Hawley, Carmel M., Hickey, Laura E., Kiriwandeniya, Charani, Matsuyama, Misa, Jaure, Allison and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2025). Goals of frail older people living with chronic kidney disease: a mixed methods study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 73 (6), 1742-1752. doi: 10.1111/jgs.19421
Logan, Benignus, Pascoe, Elaine M., Viecelli, Andrea K., Johnson, David W., Comans, Tracy, Hawley, Carmel M., Hickey, Laura E., Janda, Monika, Jaure, Allison, Kalaw, Emarene, Kiriwandeniya, Charani, Matsuyama, Misa, Mihala, Gabor, Nguyen, Kim-Huong, Pole, Jason D., Polkinghorne, Kevan R., Pond, Constance, Raj, Rajesh, Reidlinger, Donna M., Scholes-Robertson, Nicole, Valks, Andrea, Wong, Germaine, Hubbard, Ruth E. and on behalf of The GOAL Trial Investigators (2025). Baseline Characteristics of Frailty and Disease Stage in Older People Living With CKD. Kidney International Reports, 10 (1), 120-133. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2024.10.009
Flavell, Joshua, Ahern, Emily G. M., Logan, Benignus, Shaw, Thomas B., Adam, Robert J., McElligott, Caitlin A. T. and Nestor, Peter J. (2025). Factors associated with true-positive and false-positive diagnoses of behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia in 100 consecutive referrals from specialist physicians. European Journal of Neurology, 32 (1) e70036, e70036-1. doi: 10.1111/ene.70036
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, 43 (4), 852-860. doi: 10.1111/ajag.13365
Logan, Benignus, Viecelli, Andrea K., Pascoe, Elaine M., Pimm, Bonnie, Hickey, Laura E., Johnson, David W. and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2024). Training healthcare professionals to administer Goal Attainment Scaling as an outcome measure. Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 8 (1) 22, 1-11. doi: 10.1186/s41687-024-00704-0
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
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
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, Benignus, Ludlow, Kristiana, Pascoe, Elaine M., Viecelli, Andrea, Johnson, David W., Hawley, Carmel, Hickey, Laura E., Kiriwandeniya, Charani, Matsuyama, Misa, Jaure, Allison and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2025). Goals of frail older people living with chronic kidney disease. 62nd ERA Congress, Vienna, Austria, 4-7 June 2025. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfaf116.1540
Ludlow, Kristiana, Logan, Benignus, Saunders, Rosemary, Warren, Nicola, Gallagher, Olivia, Miller, Elizabeth, Arora, Jhalak and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2024). Focus on Frailty: Co-designing a digital education course to improve healthcare professionals’ understanding and knowledge of frailty in hospitals. Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2024, Christchurch, New Zealand, 22-24 May 2024.
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., 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.
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
Thesis
Logan, Benignus (2025). Frailty and goals of care in older people living with moderate to severe chronic kidney disease. PhD Thesis, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/25197ef
Generic Document
Logan, Benignus (2023). A practical guide to administering Goal Attainment Scaling. University of Queensland: Centre for Health Services Research – Australian Frailty Network.