Adj. Prof. Jackie Hanson, Chief Executive
Jim McGowan AM, Board Chair
Metro North Health is home to hundreds of dedicated and determined world-class researchers who are working hard to improve patient outcomes, combat disease and advance clinical practice. For this year’s Metro North Research Excellence Awards, it was wonderful to see over 70 nominations across the seven categories.
We are pleased to announce the finalists for the 2022 Metro North Research Excellence Awards:
Research Support Award
- Professor Merrilyn Banks
- Dr Mahesh Ramanan
- Associate Professor Silvia Manzanero
- Professor Norm Morris
Researcher of the Year
- Professor Leonie Callaway
- Professor John F Fraser
- Professor Steven Lane
Rising Star Award
- Dr Thuy Frakking
- Associate Professor Peter Lazzarini
- Dr Stephen Parker
- Dr Glenn Stewart
Clinical Research Award
- Puzzling: Probiotics and Preeclampsia
- Implementation and Evaluation of a Nurse-Allied Health Multidisciplinary Post-Bone Marrow Transplant Clinic (The PostMAN Clinic)
- Nursing Research and Practice Development Centre Team
- Associate Professor Tanya Kairn
Complex Health Challenges
- The Impact of COVID on the Cancer Care Workforce Across the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and the Sunshine Coast University Hospital
- The Prince Charles Hospital’s Critical Care Research Group
- Redcliffe Hospital Intensive Care Unit – excellence in interdisciplinary research to benefit patients and families
- COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium
Discovery and Innovation
- Safer, more accurate and more comfortable radiotherapy through 3D printing – Cancer Care Services, RBWH
- Salivary Diagnostics and Liquid Biopsy in Head and Neck Cancer – World First Discovery
- Virtual reality for pain and rehabilitation for burns survivors
- The Living Heart Project – Mending broken hearts with hypothermic ex vivo perfusion
Health Services and Implementation Award
- Eat Walk Engage: preventing delirium and improving hospital care for older Queenslanders
- Healthy Pregnancy Healthy Baby Research Group
- Implementation of the intensive Comprehensive High Dose Aphasia Treatment (CHAT) into clinical rehabilitation
- Nursing and Midwifery Research Centre – Evidence Based Practice (EBP) Program
The awards evening will be held on 2 June and this year we have a small number of additional tickets for staff interested in attending. If you have a research connection and interest in networking with fellow colleagues and industry, please complete the online expressions of interest form which closes at 5pm 18 May 2022.
We would like to thank all of you who took the time to highlight some of the fantastic research initiatives of your colleagues across our facilities.
Thank you to our 2022 sponsors HESTA, RBWH Foundation and The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation.
Good luck to all the finalists.
Kind regards,
Jim McGowan AM, Board Chair
Adj. Prof. Jackie Hanson, Chief Executive