Romy Lauche

Biography

Associate Professor Romy Lauche is Deputy Director (Research) at the National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM). She has a background and qualifications in Psychology, and a PhD in Medical Sciences.

Research

Romy has acquired profound methodological knowledge and skills in clinical research and trial design, quantitative and qualitative research, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, and public health. She is also experienced in analysing large public health datasets, and leading and contributing to complex research projects. She regularly presents her research at premier research conferences in the field, with nearly 50 presentations to date. To date she has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and several book chapters. Romy has also been successful in attracting a substantial number of research grants for clinical and public health research. For her outstanding achievements she was awarded the 2017 'Deans Academic Excellence Award - Research High Achiever' by the Faculty of Health at the University of Technology Sydney, and the 2022 'Award for Research Excellence – Mid-Career Researcher' from Southern Cross University.

Service and Community engagement

Romy currently holds an appointment as member of the Southern Cross University Human Research Ethics Committee.

Romy has editorial commitments with peer-reviewed journals in traditional, complementary and integrative medicine. Romy is actively involved with the Cochrane collaboration through Cochrane Translate, and Cochrane Crowd.

Supervision

Romy is a vastly experienced supervisor for PhD, Masters and Honours students. She is interested in supervising students in the following research areas (list not conclusive): yoga, Tai Chi, hydrotherapy, complementary therapies, traditional medicine, cultural medicine (Ramadan, etc.) and self-care, often in the context of chronic illness. In addition to clinical research projects, she is interested in supervising experimental studies, or methodological studies.

Teaching

Romy has been teaching into a variety of subjects, and she has held lectures and seminars in research methodology, biostatistics, public health, and traditional and complementary medicine.