Lianne Parkin
{{Short description|New Zealand public health professor}}
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Lianne Parkin is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in public health and the safety of medicines.
Academic career
Parkin completed a medical degree and a postgraduate diploma in obstetrics at the University of Otago, and practised as a GP in New Zealand and Australia.{{Cite web |last=University of Otago |date=2023-08-02 |title=Professor Lianne Parkin Profile |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/healthsciences/expertise/profile |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}} PhD titled Risk factors for venous thromboembolism at the University of Otago, supervised by Charlotte Paul and David Skegg.{{Cite thesis|title=Risk factors for venous thromboembolism|url=https://hdl.handle.net/10523/8329|last=Parkin|first=Lianne|publisher=OUR Archive, University of Otago|date=2008|type=PhD thesis}} Parkin then joined the faculty of the university, rising to associate professor in 2019,{{Cite web |last=Department of Tourism |first= |date=2018-12-12 |title=University of Otago announces academic promotions |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/humannutrition/news/12-december-2018-university-of-otago-announces-academic-promotions |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}} and full professor in 2023.{{Cite news |last=Lewis |first=John |date=2022-12-17 |title=University promotes 39 to professor |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/university-promotes-39-professor |access-date=2024-01-24 |work=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=University of Otago |first=Wellington |date=2022-12-16 |title=Otago announces 39 new professors |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/maori-health-research/news/otago-announces-39-new-professors |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}}
Parkin has researched the association between blood clots and flying, finding that long-distance flights did increase the risk of pulmonary embolism but that dying from the condition was still rare.{{Cite web |date=2024-01-24 |title=Risk up with flight but fatal clots rare |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/risk-up-with-flight-but-fatal-clots-rare/NKWXW54HZLOPYBJTAVQG7N3MMQ/ |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=The New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ}} She and her research group have also investigated the link between the cholesterol-lowering drugs statins and the muscle disease rhabdomyolysis,{{Cite web |date=2024-01-24 |title=Muscle damage associated with taking statins |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/muscle-damage-associated-with-taking-statins/AGMRKIQR56PJBRN5QKUG2HKSVM/ |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=The New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ}}{{Cite web |date=2024-03-22 |title=Study highlights shortcomings in statin prescribing habits |url=https://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/news/study-highlights-shortcomings-statin-prescribing-habits |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=New Zealand Doctor |language=en}} and noted an increased risk of the kidney condition interstitial nephritis from the use of proton-pump inhibitors.{{Cite news |last=Gibb |first=John |date=2014-03-26 |title=Drugs' disease risk concern |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/drugs-disease-risk-concern |access-date=2024-01-24 |work=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Lewis |first=John |date=2021-08-17 |title=Warning about bronchodilators |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/health/warning-about-bronchodilators |access-date=2024-01-24 |work=Otago Daily Times |language=en}} Parkin has received grant funding to investigate how type 2 diabetics in New Zealand use metformin.{{Cite web |last=Government |first=Pharmac {{!}} New Zealand |date=2017-03-02 |title=Grant winners announced for new joint pharmaceuticals research fund |url=https://pharmac.govt.nz/news-and-resources/news/grant-winners-announced-for-new-joint-pharmaceuticals-research-fund |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=Pharmac {{!}} New Zealand Government |language=en-NZ}}
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Parkin studied the proportion of people scanning QR codes at public venues to enable contact tracing.{{Cite web |date=2021-03-28 |title=Low numbers scanning Covid-19 QR code posters, audit reveals |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/439338/low-numbers-scanning-covid-19-qr-code-posters-audit-reveals |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=RNZ |language=en-nz}} She also looked at the proportion of students at the university reporting their Covid infections, finding that although more than 94% of surveyed student flats had cases during the study period, more than a third of infected students did not report their positive test result.{{Cite news |last=Lewis |first=John |date=2023-02-06 |title=Students urged to report Covid test results |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/students-urged-report-covid-test-results |access-date=2024-01-24 |work=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}
Honours and awards
In 2010, Parkin and collaborators Patricia Priest and Sheila Williams won an Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating that, on icy footpaths in wintertime, people slip and fall less often if they wear socks on the outside of their shoes.{{Cite news |last=Constantine |first=Ellie |date=2010-10-02 |title=Socks on ice a winner |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/socks-ice-winner |access-date=2024-01-24 |work=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Abrahams |first=Marc |date=2010-03-09 |title=Put a sock on it |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/mar/09/improbable-research-icy-socks-over-shoes |access-date=2024-01-24 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} The Ig Nobel Prizes are given to "honour achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think". The advice to wear socks over shoes on icy streets is given by Dunedin City Council, where the study was conducted, although Parkin's study noted that some people are too self-conscious to wear them even after experiencing the benefits.
Selected works
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- {{Cite Q|Q34836664}}
- {{Cite Q|Q34285084}}
- {{Cite Q|Q50662585}}
- {{Cite Q|Q50501295|author7=((Million Women Study Collaborators))}}
- {{Cite Q|Q44755829}}
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Category:New Zealand academics
Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:University of Otago alumni
Category:New Zealand general practitioners
Category:New Zealand public health doctors