Research Snapshot 2022
- Foreword
- Message from Board Chair & Chief Executive
- 2023 Clinical Research Fellowships
- A message from the RBWH Foundation
- A message from The Common Good
- Metro North Research Excellence Awards
- Research stories
- ICU of the Future
- New approach ruling out pulmonary embolism
- Improving access to healthcare in the prison environment
- Safety and efficacy of peripheral versus centrally administered vasopressor infusion
- COVID-19 learnings set to inform future policy
- Telomere study could provide key to treating debilitating lung disease
- Productive Ward – Releasing time to care
- Brain organoids to revolutionise epilepsy treatment
- Reducing weight stigma in maternity care
- Parkinson’s Disease Check-In program giving people a voice
- Trial brings new treatment for common heart condition
- Teledentistry study shows promise in residential aged care
- Research fellow to boost Oral Health evidence-based care
- Study explores best approach to surgery for painful shoulder osteoarthritis
- The development and pilot testing of a stroke telerehabilitation decision toolkit
- Metro North Health delivers world-first breast scaffold surgery
- Regenerative jawbone hard at work care of collaborative Metro North Health approach
- Jamieson Trauma Institute leads e-scooter and e-bike injury research to drive community safety
- Forgotten fathers in pregnancy and obstetrics
- Putting the Spotlight on nursing and midwifery research
- Improving the health self-efficacy of stroke survivors
Foreword from the Executive Director, Research
Last year was an exciting year for research at Metro North Health. The 2022 Research Snapshot Report highlights some of the many hundreds of research projects undertaken across Metro North’s facilities throughout the year. The innovative and effective research you will read about in this report is not only improving patient outcomes and experiences, but also cementing our place on the world map as healthcare research leaders.
Professor Dan Chambers
Executive Director, Research
Metro North Health
Message from the Board Chair and Chief Executive
The 2022 Metro North Health Research Snapshot Report represents our health service’s continued investment in research and recognises the vital roles that researchers, and those who support and enable research, play in advancing healthcare and improving health outcomes for our patients and community.
It highlights Metro North’s position to maintain and build our research excellence, increase innovation and translation of our research outcomes, and address emerging research challenges.
A HUB FOR WORLD CLASS RESEARCH
Clinician Research Fellows awarded
$4.3 million in grants
Journal Articles
Published
in 2022
in NHMRC Grants as
lead investigator in 2022
new SSA
approvals in
in 2022
new HREC approvals
in 2022
*SSA refers to the site-specific-assessment (SSA) application submitted to a Research Governance Officer for review
*HREC refers to a Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC)
Making research possible
Metro North Health’s high standard of research would not be possible without the support of the Metro North Research Coordinator Grants, Collaborative Research Grants, the RBWH Foundation and The Common Good.
Showcasing the future of research
The 2022 annual Metro North Research Excellence Awards attracted 71 phenomenal submissions that showcased the diverse and far-reaching research projects conducted by individual researchers and teams from across Metro North Health.
Research is vital in driving change in clinical practice to improve patient outcomes, and Metro North Health researchers are conducting ground-breaking research every day.
Acknowledgements
The Metro North Health Research Office would like to acknowledge and thank the Metro North Health Communications team for their efforts in developing the annual Research Snapshot Report.
Without the curious minds and excellent writing skills of our communications experts, the stories of our researchers and their research excellence would not be told. Without the keen eye for detail and technical expertise of our online and design team members, the 2022 Research Snapshot would be possible, or look anywhere near as beautiful. Thank you.
Communications
- Christine Atkinson
- Rebecca Burn
- Jane Bebbington
- Kate Carey
- John Walters
- Stephen Hapgood
- Kirsten Braun
- Travis Bell
- Louise Fichera
Online and Design
- Ian Drake
- Sean Rezak
- Ian Neale
- Douglas Lewry
- Mary Phillips
- Rochelle Barnes
- Amanda Burke