Adj Prof Jackie Hanson, Chief Executive
Last night we celebrated the Metro North Research Excellence Awards. Congratulations to the winners and highly commended researchers:
Research Support Award
Winner: Dr Mahesh Ramanan
Highly Commended: Professor Nicole Marsh
Rising Star
Winner: Associate Professor Teresa Brown
Highly Commended: Associate Professor Andrea Henden
Discovery and Innovation Research Award
Winner: Treatment of multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa by removal of ‘harmful’ antibodies
Highly Commended: Redcliffe Hospital Urology Team – Leading discovery and innovation to benefit patients with urologic cancers and conditions
Clinical Research Award
Winner: CAR-T cells: a new frontier in cancer care
Highly Commended: The Living Heart Project
Complex Health Challenges Research Award
Winner: Integrated Children’s Care Collaborative (ICCC)
Research Implementation Award
Winner: Lung cancer screening – Australia’s 4th national screening program
Highly Commended: Implementation Support Groups
Consumers in Research Award
Winner: Optimising consumer choice in telehealth: Metro North Telehealth Co-Design Project
Professor Joan Webster Nursing & Midwifery Research Award
Winner: Professor Nicole Marsh
Researcher of the Year
Winner: Professor John F Fraser
Chief Executive’s Award
Winner: Professor Owen Ung
The Metro North Research Excellence Awards were sponsored by The Common Good, RBWH Foundation, and HESTA.
The event was MC’d by Elwyn Henaway, who is Metro North’s Health Equity Research Officer. I look forward to next year and seeing an expected increase in research in the health equity space.
Redcliffe RAP launch
Yesterday I spent the day at Redcliffe Hospital and attended the Reconciliation Action Plan launch. Well done to the Redcliffe RAP committee for developing the plan and organising yesterday’s launch event with Elders, community and staff.
We also held a staff forum with the Metro North Senior Executive Team where we updated staff on what’s happening across the organisation and answered questions. Thank you to everyone who came along in person or via Teams.
Message in a bottle
Based on feedback from the BEMs and Food Services teams at The Prince Charles Hospital, I visited both services this week to speak to and listen to staff. Thank you to all for giving up your time and sharing your concerns. There will be some action in the BEMs space to close out some safety issues.
Thanks to Rosa for her frankness and wow to Sandra Benson who advised she walks 20,000 steps per day at work!
Congratulations also to TPCH cooks Peter and Rahul who won the national Institute of Hospitality in Health Care Conference culinary competition. The pair cooked a delicious
gourmet meal to take out the coveted award.
Celebrating our Operational Services staff
Throughout October we recognised the valuable contribution of Operational Services staff across our facilities.
Patient Support Officer Norm Stevens
Caboolture Hospital has wrapped up its 30th anniversary month with a profile of Patient Support Officer Norm Stevens. In 1973 Norm took up boxing when he was 15 and two years later won a state championship and silver medal in the national championships.
In 1979 Norm received both the Neville Bonner Trophy for Best Indigenous Boxer and the Arthur Tunstall Trophy for the Best Boxer at the Australian Championships. Norm represented Australia at the 1980 Olympic Games.
Since 2009, Norm has worked at Caboolture Hospital, mostly in Mental Health, and tries every day to make people happy and feel supported.
I’ve also received some photos of some of the celebrations throughout October.
STARS BBQ
TPCH Food Services
Kilcoy staff lunch
RBWH Food services
RBWH Waste Management
TPCH Security
Accreditation
A huge shout out to the Redcliffe team for the amazing feedback received from the ACHS surveyors last week. This afternoon we will hear from the team who have been at Community and Oral Health this week.
Kind regards,
Jackie.