2020 Fellows

The second Fellowship round introduced our new five 2020 Fellows.

Acting Chief Executive Jackie Hanson and Executive Director Research Scott Bell welcome the 2020 Clinician Research Fellows. (L-R) Matthew Roberts, Jayesh Dhanani, Jackie Hanson, Kiran Shekar, Susan de Jersey, Scott Bell, Henry Marshall

Dr Susan de Jersey “ Improving nutrition related antenatal care to optimise future health outcomes for mothers and their offspring”

Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, RBWH

Susan will use her Fellowship to evaluate and scale effective interventions to improve health outcomes for pregnant women and their offspring. Her research will also help prevent the prevalence of excess gestational weight gain and gestational diabetes mellitus in pregnant women.

Dr Jayesh Dhanani “Inhale for comfort and analgesia – innovation in providing analgesia and sedation using nebulisation”

Intensive Care Medicine, RBWH

Jayesh will use his Fellowship to lead research into aerosolised therapy, an emerging field to improve patient comfort. Data used from his research will help Jayesh design future pharmacokinetics studies for post-operative, emergency medicine and palliative care patients.

Dr Henry Marshall “CO-RiQUIRE (Comorbidity, Risk, QUIt, REach) – addressing lung cancer screening knowledge gaps”

Thoracic Medicine, TPCH

Henry will use his Fellowship to maximise the efficiency and value add to lung cancer screening. His research will address four knowledge gaps of CT scanning: comorbidity, reach, prevention and risk.

A/Prof Kiran Shekar “The NO TUBE Project: Integrating non-invasive airway based respiratory support, nitric oxide gas inhalation and extracorporeal respiratory support to reduce the burden of invasive mechanical ventilation in intensive care units”

Intensive Care Medicine, TPCH

Kiran will use his Fellowship to gather data that will assist the development of cost-effective, viable alternatives to invasive mechanical ventilation in the ICU.

Dr Matthew Roberts “Beyond the scalpel: Surgeon-led multidisciplinary urological care with innovative precision diagnostics and therapeutics”

Department of Urology, RBWH

Matthew will use his Fellowship to pursue ground-breaking surgical urologic oncology, endourology and associated clinical research to improve urological surgery related patient survival, quality of life and financial outcomes.