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Congratulations to the following staff on receiving a grant. 

Eastern Health Foundation Research and Innovation Grant recipients 2023

  • Dr Robert Wright from Palliative and Supportive Care received the Eastern Health Foundation Research and Innovation Grant for the project "Service Evaluation: Integration of the Palliative Ambulatory Care Consult Team (PACCT) into the Hospital Admission Risk Program (HARP)".
  • Mrs Renita Manning from Early Supported Discharge Program, Ambulatory Care received the Robert C Bulley OAM Research and Innovation Grant for the project "Functional change in stroke survivors who participate in the Early Supported Stroke Discharge program".
  • A/Prof Alan Young from Respiratory and Sleep Medicine received the Pam and Alfred Lavey Research and Innovation Grant for the project "Effects of chronic non-cancer pain, medications and substance use on sleep".
  • Mr Jeremy Szmerling from Pharmacy received the Irene Mary Sammons Research and Innovation Grant for the project "Analgesic Stewardship Early Intervention to Prevent Harm and Death from Opioids: Automation in the Electronic Environment".
  • Dr Katherine Harding from Allied Health Clinical Research Office received the Irene Mary Sammons Research and Innovation Grant for the project "Accelerating Research Translation: The ART of Evidence Based Care".
  • Prof Nicholas Taylor from Allied Heath Clinical Research Office received the BankVic Research and Innovation Grant for the project "Implementing an evidence based clinical supervision training program to reduce staff burnout and improve patient safety".
  • Dr Olumuyiwa Omonaiye from Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research-Eastern Health Partnership received the Robert C Bulley OAM Research and Innovation Grant for the project "Evaluating and understanding diabetes medication-taking among adults from culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Australia".
  • Mrs Janet Bennett from Neuroscience received the BankVic Research and Innovation Grant for the project "Recognizing and managing challenges for people with Young Onset Dementia (YOD) post diagnosis in a cognitive diagnostic clinic".
  • Dr wee-Kheng soo from Cancer Services received the Eeastern Health Foundation Research & Innovation Grant (BH) for the project "Health economic evaluation of Integrated Geriatric Assessment and Treatment Effectiveness (INTEGERATE) randomised controlled trial in older people with cancer starting systemic anticancer treatment in Australia".
  • Dr Fiona Donald from Spectrum received the BankVic Research and Innovation Grant for the project "Consumer Experiences of Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT): A Qualitative Study".
  • Dr Jaya Chandrasekhar from Cardiology received the Hayward Cardiology Research Grant for the project "Platelet reactivity testing for antiplatelet drug-responsiveness in patients receiving coronary stents".
  • Dr Ming Li Yee from Endocrinology received the Eastern Health Foundation Research and Innovation Grant for the project "Exploring the role of RNA, skeletal muscle satellite cells and its relationship to androgens in sarcopenic older women".
  • A/Prof Jacqueline Boyle from Eastern Health Clinical School received the Eastern Health Foundation Research and Innovation Grant for the project "Consumer-led co-design of an effective online consumer and community involvement audit tool".
  • Dr Hui Yi Ng from Endocrinology received the Irene Mary Sammons Research and Innovation Grant for the project "The role of circulating tumour DNA in the management and detection of recurrence in differentiated thyroid cancer".
  • Dr Paul Buntine from Emergency Department received the Eastern Health Foundation Research and Innovation Grant (MH) for the project "Nudging clinicians to reduce unnecessary medical test ordering".
  • Dr Nisha Nadarajan from Palliative and supportive Care received the Robert C Bulley OAM Research and Innovation Grant for the project "Evaluating palliative rehabilitation in an inpatient palliative care unit".
  • Mrs Rebecca Sedgman from Emergency Department received the Eastern Health Foundation Research and Innovation Grant (MH) for the project "Pre-triage consumer experiences in the Emergency Department - the hidden wait time".
  •  Dr Antara Karmakar from Urology received the Eastern Health Foundation Research and Innovation Grant (BH) for the project "Are you there?: Longitudinal detection of tumour-derived DNA in blood and urine during management of bladder cancer".
  • Prof Shomik Sengupta from Urology received the Irene Mary Sammons Research and Innovation Grant for the project "Bladder cancer treatment and surveillanc etracker".

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