Metro North Research is committed to creating a supportive environment for research impact through the creation of, and rapid translation of knowledge.
The Metro North Health SWIFT (Supporting Wonderful Ideas to Foster Translation) Grants Program is tailored to create opportunities to:
1. generate new knowledge through research; or
2. rapidly implement and translate research discoveries into benefits for Metro North Health patients and the community.
We are very pleased to announce twenty successful projects from the inaugural round of the Metro North Health SWIFT Grants. These Grants will support early phase, rapidly deployed, innovative projects that benefit Metro North Health patients and the community.
Congratulations to all of the successful investigative teams.
Title: The EXPeDiTe Sleep project – EXtending Psychology scope for pharmacotherapies Emphasising Deprescribing during behavioural Treatment of Sleep: Developing and evaluating acceptance of an Australian-first model of enhanced behavioural sleep care
Investigative Team:
CIA: Dr Daniel Sullivan, Senior Psychologist, TPCH
CIB-E: Dr Sara Winter, Dr Marea Patounas, Dr Deanne Curtin, Dr Tricia Rolls
Title: Implementing performance-based assessments of functional cognition for occupational therapists at STARS
Investigative Team:
CIA: Ms Katherine Goodchild, Occupational Therapist, STARS
CIB-C: Mrs Kaitlyn Spalding, Ms Emmah Doig
Title: Improving Access to quaternary and tertiary health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients by addressing their social, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing
Investigative Team:
CIA: Ms Yashni Kander, Nurse Navigator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Multicultural Health, RBWH
CIB-D: Mr Geoffrey Binge, Ms Patricia Kennedy, Prof Jed Duff
Title: Where is my dental home? Connecting the community with the right dental care, at the right time, by the right people
Investigative Team:
CIA: Dr Nicola Stormon, Oral Health Therapist, COH
CIB-E: Dr Paul Drahm, Ms Kirrily Phillips, Dr David Carr, Dr Sean Hitchenson
Title: Stopping Syphilis on the Streets
Investigative Team:
CIA: Dr Diane Rowling, Public Health Physician (Sexual Health), Metro North Public Health Unit
CIB-F: Dr Joseph Debattista, Ms Elena McLeish, Mrs Kim Rayner, Ms Leanne Papas, Mrs Karyn Walsh
Title: Measuring what matters to patients: Identifying and implementing patient-centred outcome measures for patients referred for bariatric surgery
Investigative Team:
CIA: Dr Angela Byrnes, Clinician and Research Dietitian, RBWH
CIB-F: Dr George Hopkins, Dr Matthew Seymour, Dr Mala McHale, Ms Rebecca Healy, Ms Elizabeth Woods
Title: Implementing a lumbar puncture nursing assessment tool to support clinical practice and improve patient care
Investigative Team:
CIA: Ms Veronica Percival, Registered Nurse, Cancer Care Services, RBWH
CIB-D: Dr Nicole Gavin, Dr Kirsty McLeod, Ms Therese Hayes
Title: SecurInG eNdotrAcheal TUbes safely and accuRately in tiny patiEnts (SIGNATURE)
Investigative Team:
CIA: Dr Melissa Lai, Staff Specialist, Neonatology, RBWH
CIB-F: Dr Mia McLanders, Dr Chiara Santomauro, Ms Jackie Clement, Ms Kellie McGrory, Ms Karen Hose
Title: Medication Administration Evaluation and Feedback Tool (MAEFT) Implementation Internal Medicine Services (IMS) RBWH
Investigative Team:
CIA: Dr Karen Davies, Nurse Research Fellow, HeIDI, RBWH
CIB-E: Dr Peter Donovan, Prof Samantha Keogh, Mrs Joanne Mewis, Mrs Emma O’Brien
Title: Unlocking the death code of IgA nephropathy progression
Investigative Team:
CIA: A/Prof Helen Healy, Nephrologist, Metro North Health
CIB-C: A/Prof Chang Seong Kim, Dr Andrew Kassianos
Title: Digitalisation to improve outbreak management in residential aged care facilities
Investigative Team:
CIA: Mrs Deena Malloy, Senior Epidemiologist, Metro North Public Health Unit
CIB-C: Ms Kim Langfeldt, Ms Cindy Rugsten
Title: New Pathways to Treat Intractable Infections
Investigative Team:
CIA: Dr Amy Pham, Clinical Research, TPCH
CIB: Dr Timothy Wells
Title: Pilot trial of an acute tele-audiology service model to enhance best practice care for people with sudden sensorineural hearing loss living in Metro North Health
Investigative Team:
CIA: Ms Carla Rose, Audiologist Advanced, RBWH
CIB-D: Ms Kelly Costa, Ms Isabella Prowse, Dr Clare Burns
Title: Trametinib Triumph: Breaking Fibrosis Barriers
Investigative Team:
CIA: A/Prof Brendan O’Sullivan, Chief Scientist Lung Transplant, TPCH
Title: Clinical evaluation of COVID-19 related glomerular diseases: A mixed method study in Australia
Investigative Team:
CIA: A/Prof Dwarakanathan Ranganathan,
CIB-F: A/Prof Zaw Thet, Dr Yishen Wang, Dr Sharad Ratanjee, Prof Alfred Lam, Dr Tien Khoo
Title: Considering parents and parenting in recovery from serious mental illness
Investigative Team:
CIA: A/Prof Kylie Burke, Director Research Strategy and Evaluation, Metro North Mental Health
CIB-D: Dr Elizabeth Eggins, A/Prof Alina Morawska, Ms Erika Giebels
Title: Identification of treatable pathogens in patients with severe Inflammatory Bowel Disease, using novel metagenomics technology
Investigative Team:
CIA: A/Prof Graham Radford-Smith, Senior Staff Specialist, Gastroenterology, RBWH
CIB: Dr Gareth Walker
Title: Investigating the use of podcast education for coronial findings
Investigative Team:
CIA: Ms Benita Suckling, Clinical Pharmacist, Caboolture, Kilcoy and Woodford Directorate
CIB-E: Dr Ainslie Kirkegaard, Dr Louise Purtell, Mr Timothy Dunn, Ms Champika Pattullo
Title: Proteomic Profile in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage: relationship to vasospasm, delayed cerebral ischaemia and outcomes
Investigative Team:
CIA: Dr Craig Winter,
CIB-D: Dr Jolyn Khoo, Dr Judith Bellapart, A/Prof Fatima Nasrallah
Title: Your Call Families: A pilot of telephone counselling for family members of people with AOD concerns
Investigative Team:
CIA: Ms Barbara Baumgartner, Clinical Lead, Biala Alcohol and Drug Service
CIB: Dr Hollie Wilson
Professor Steven Lane
Acting Executive Director Research