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:
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| 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 |
| 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 | |||||
| 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 |
