School of Community Health
Dr Herbert Jelinek 
Position Senior Lecturer, Biomedical Science
Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Complex Systems (CRiCS)
Campus Albury-Wodonga, City
Phone (02) 6051 6946 (with voice mail)
Fax (02) 6051 6772
EMAIL HERBERT JELINEK 
Herbert Jelinek is currently teaching Neuroscience and Pharmacology. As part of his teaching aims he is incorporating voice over for Powerpoint presentations to be available, especially for distance education students, and is developing experience-based learning sessions for the allied health programmes offered at the School of Community Health.
Herbert's main research interest is the use of pattern analysis in clinical assessment of disease processes. As such diverse image analysis tools have been applied to the investigation of changes in blood vessel patterns of people with dementia and schizophrenia as well as changes associated with diabetic retinopathy progression. Single cell analysis of microglia and temporal analysis of ECG series has also been investigated for sensitivity and specificity of disease classification. His main project deals with diabetes and its complications. Within this project he is investigating biochemical markers as risk indicators of disease progression, nonlinear analysis of heart rate intervals in identification of cardiac autonomic neuropathy and developing new methods to identify peripheral vascular disease. Programmes that allow automated identification of diabetic eye disease are also being developed. The emphasis of this work is to develop tools for rural and remote primary health care providers that allow them to determine the presence of disease and the necessity for referral as well as target larger sections of the population.