- 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
Research fellow to boost Oral Health evidence-based care
The introduction of a new research fellowship position in Oral Health is creating unique partnerships that are improving the way we deliver complete care across hospitals and community health care services. Pictured: Dr Nicole Stormon.
Metro North has established a dedicated research position focused on enhancing oral health practice and supporting more oral health research.
Community and Oral Health Innovation and Research Centre Director Dr Nicole Gavin said the establishment of a Principal Research Fellow in Metro North Oral Health Services was a significant step toward enhancing dental practice and care.
“The Principal Research Fellow will support our adult, children and specialist oral health teams fill gaps in evidence-based and clinical practice, as well as provide an important connection between oral health services and ongoing medical care,” Dr Gavin said.
“The new role will facilitate research through supportive education and mentoring and will help oral health staff deliver more collaborative grass-roots dental research where it matters.”
The new Oral Health research position follows the establishment of the Community and Oral Health Innovation and Research Centre in 2021.
“Importantly, we now have a footprint in oral health and a dedicated research fellow who has a strong background in oral health care and quality improvement,” Dr Gavin said.
Metro North Oral Health Service Principal Research Fellow Dr Nicole Stormon said while there were some great research activities planned in the coming months and years, her focus was on bringing health professionals together.
“Community and Oral Health and our hospitals deal with very complex patient conditions,” Dr Stormon said.
“I aim to bring everyone together so that we can collaborate more effectively to implement innovative evidence-based models of care that support our patients.”
Some recent research activity she highlighted included the research collaboration to improve intensive care patient outcomes through a better oral health hygiene model of care. In addition, a feasibility study has been completed which looks at how the use of teledentistry in the residential aged care sector is expected to bring important advances in oral hygiene assessment and care for the elderly.