Palaszczuk Government delivers $4 million boost for clinical research

Published Wednesday, 16 December, 2020 at 10:22 AM

Minister for Health and Ambulance Services
The Honourable Yvette D'Ath

Clinician researchers around the state will receive a total funding boost of close to $4 million from the Queensland Government to investigate vital health issues.

Minister for Health and Ambulance Services Yvette D’Ath said 14 clinician researchers had been awarded funding under round two of the Queensland Advancing Clinical Research Fellowship program.

“We launched these fellowships in 2019 because we know that research outcomes are critical to finding new and better ways of delivering healthcare and improving the health of Queenslanders,” she said.

“Front line clinician researchers, including doctors, nurses and allied health practitioners, are uniquely placed to pursue clinical research that leads to better patient care outcomes and frontline healthcare delivery

“These grants will support emerging and established clinicians to undertake research in a wide range of research fields, including skin cancer, chest infections, occupational violence in emergency departments, kidney disease, and Indigenous health.

“Queensland Health is brimming with talented clinician researchers who are eager to develop solutions to issues or find better ways of providing care in their field of expertise.

“I congratulate the 14 recipients and look forward to seeing the results of their research.”

Fellowship recipients will partner with organisations including Queensland hospitals, universities and health advocacy bodies.

Full list of recipients:

NAME

PROJECT TITLE

AMOUNT

ADMINISTERING ORGANISATION

PARTNER ORGANISATION

Ms Cara Joyce Cabilan

 

Exploring the development, implementation, and the effectiveness of an occupational violence risk assessment tool (ALERT checklist) in emergency departments

 

$149,976

 

Metro South HHS

 

The University of Queensland

 

Dr Rohan Grimley

 

The effects of financial incentives to improve stroke unit access in Queensland on outcomes and hospital processes of care

 

$150,000

 

Sunshine Coast HHS

 

1. Clinical Excellence Division, Queensland Health

2. Monash University

3. University of the Sunshine Coast

 

Dr Michelle Nataatmadja

 

Predicting and facilitating success on home dialysis, through understanding of burden, quality of life and patient outcome

$150,000

Sunshine Coast HHS

1. The University of Queensland 

 

2. Centre for Kidney Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead

 

3. Ann Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, USA

Mr Arvind Ponnapalli

P1: Indigenous Parent Wellbeing: Implications for Early Intervention Parenting Programs in Indigenous Communities

 

P2: Cherbourg Collaborative Positive Parenting Project

$146,313

 

Darling Downs HHS

The University of Queensland

Dr Rochelle Ryan

Peri-Operative Pharmacokinetics of Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis

$150,000

Sunshine Coast HHS

The University of Queensland

Dr Peter Snelling

Bedside Ultrasound Conducted in Kids with distal upper Limb fractures in the Emergency Department (BUCKLED)

$144,174

Gold Coast HHS

Griffith University

Dr Donna Franklin

 

Improved Early Respiratory Support of Infants and Children

$300,000

The University of Queensland

 

Gold Coast HHS

Dr Angela Ratsch

Indigenous women’s maternal tobacco and nicotine exposure: Patterns and validation of exposure, genotype and physiologic impacts, and barriers/facilitators to cessation

$300,000

 

Wide Bay HHS

1. Galangoor Duwalami Primary Healthcare Service

 

2. The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, University of Sydney

 

3. NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth

 

4. The University of Queensland

 

Dr Andrea Viecelli

Improving patient-important outcomes in haemodialysis through validation and implementation in registries and pragmatic clinical trials

$300,000

 

 Metro South HHS

 

1. The University of Queensland

 

2. Centre for Kidney Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead

Dr Colm Keane

Novel immune based approaches to improve survival for patients with Primary Central Nervous Lymphoma

$393,000

The University of Queensland

 

1.Mater Research Institute

 

2. Metro South HHS

 

Prof Dan Siskind

Helping people with schizophrenia living longer, healthier lives

$400,000

The University of Queensland

Metro South HHS

A/Prof Rachel Thomson

Acquisition, prevention and management of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infections

$391,697

Metro North HHS

Gallipoli Medical Research Institute

Prof Kiarash Khosrotehrani

 

 

 

Reducing the burden of skin cancers through advanced chemoimmuno- prophylaxis

$500,000

 

The University of Queensland

 

 

1. Metro South HHS

 

2. Metro North HHS

 

Prof Jason Roberts

Optimising antibiotic dosing for critically ill patients

$499,950

The University of Queensland

 

Metro North HHS

 

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