Dr Benignus Logan
Medical Monitor & ATH - Senior Lecturer
Centre for Health Services Research
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.
Journal Articles
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. 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
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
Generic Document
Logan, Benignus (2023). A practical guide to administering Goal Attainment Scaling. University of Queensland: Centre for Health Services Research – Australian Frailty Network.