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Monash Partners has supported the following projects to date:

Below you will find a range of innovative projects prioritised by Monash Partners community and funded through the the Australian Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) as part of the Rapid Applied Research Translation program.
Projects commenced in July 2019
Using smart technology to more effectively and efficiently monitor the quality of cancer care
Professor John Zalcberg OAM
Preventing heart disease in women with non-traditional cardiovascular risk factors
Dr Sarah Zaman
Investigation of the utility and the user experience of widespread access to accurate emergency department wait times
Associate Professor Katie Walker
Tackling superbugs: an integrated antimicrobial resistance infection prevention genomics service
Professor Anton Peleg
Precision medicine for hypertension: early detection of primary aldosteronism
Dr Jun Yang
Active participatory health monitoring in people with multiple sclerosis to improve treatment outcomes (Active MS)
Professor Helmut Butzkueven
Breaking the cycle of substance misuse in families
Dr Bernadette Ward
Building capacity to optimise pressure injury prevention and surveillance across Monash Partners healthcare services
Professor Carolina Weller
Strengthening mental health capacity and service integration in primary postnatal care in Victoria
Dr Heather Rowe
Be your best: an innovative, co-designed approach to frailty and care transitions from hospital to home, in people aged 65 years or more
Professor Alison Hutchinson/Dr Judy Lowthian
Practice-based Research Network: a platform for improving quality of care across the healthcare continuum
Professor Grant Russell
Paediatric Robotic Platform
Dr Ram Nataraja
Automated seizure detection for patients with epilepsy
Dr Patrick Kwan
Point-of-care assays for cardiovascular health
Dr Dion Stub
Clinical trial of a non-radioactive bone healing assessment technique
Mr Mathias Russ
Visual representation models for data (data dashboards) for clinicians, managers and consumers, to better access and utilise clinical and/or registry data
Research Fellow
Develop a strategic approach to Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Research Fellow
A new anti-inflammatory therapy for cystic fibrosis in children
Professor Paul King
PEPtrac - enhancing motivation during airway clearance in CF
Professor Anne Holland
Projects commenced in January 2019 and completed
Bridging the communication gap between primary care providers and aged care residents to minimise preventable ED admissions
Professor Terry Haines
Bringing the clinic to the people: “Pop-up” primary healthcare in southeast Melbourne
Professor Grant Russell
Innovative use of AI for antifungal stewardship in patients with blood cancer
Professor Michelle Ananda-Rajah
Data linkage to provide near real-time monitoring of cardiac surgical performance: A local pilot for a national process
Professor David Pilcher
Development of health data research incubator hubs to stimulate partnerships across academic, clinician, community, primary care and industry stakeholders
Dr Joanne Enticott
Development of a data harmonisation road map to inform linkage of data to improve maternal health outcomes
Dr Negar Naderpoor
Development of a data harmonisation road map to inform linkage of prehospital and emergency department data
Dr Kathryn Eastwood
Eliminating hepatitis C among people who inject drugs: enhancing testing and linkage to care from hospital to community settings
Dr Joseph Doyle
Integrating care via a volunteer-based patient-centred program for hospitalised patients with dementia and/or delirium: The MIcare Ageing Project
Professor Helen Skouteris
Bridging the communication gap between primary care providers and aged care residents to minimise preventable ED admissions
Professor Terry Haines
Expanding home based care for jaundiced infants
Associate Professor James Doery and Professor Shen Wei
Real-time surveillance of fungal infections to improve clinical care
Professor Michelle Ananda-Rajah
Stakeholder engagement and priority setting using Delphi and nominal group research processes to progress Theme flagships that directly benefit our community
Multiple researchers
Development of a road map for a clinical research facilitation hub across AHRA/MP
Mr Kurian Thomas
Projects funded and completed in 2018
Expanded analysis of the Victorian Cardiac Outcome Registry 2015-2017 to address barriers and improve patient outcomes in the era of field-triage
Professors James Cameron and David Kaye
Using data linkage between general practice and acute care settings to reduce avoidable hospitalisation
Professor Danielle Mazza
Ensuring HIV positive people are retained in care for best health outcomes to minimise HIV transmission in Australia
Professor Anton Peleg
Implementation of an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Program for hip and knee replacement surgery
Professor Paul Myles
Scaling up a health broker intervention to improve access to primary care for vulnerable patients
Professor Grant Russell
Improving access to new treatments for patients with Myeloma through a new clinical trials platform
Professor Andrew Spencer
Towards integrated care: improving patient and frontline staff engagement and experience of ambulatory care referral and communication processes
Dr Tracy Robinson
Reducing the evidence practice gap in preventing rehospitalisation and recurrences following stroke
Professor Amanda Thrift
Identifying the determinants of narcotic and radiological imaging overuse for low back pain in community-based women
Dr Donna Urquhart
A large scale approach to improving lung cancer care and health outcomes: assessment of best practice using a clinical quality registry
Professor John Zalcberg
A new model of health-care for co-morbid diabetes and chronic kidney disease
Professor Sophia Zoungas
Victorian Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury (OASIS) Quality of Care Improvement Project: Improving incidence, management and outcome reporting in Perinatal Data Collections (PDC)
Associate Professor Sue Evans
Below is a range of projects funded from the charitable trusts managed by Equity Trustees.
2021-2024
Monitoring transcriptional evolution in acute myeloid leukaemia using circulating tumour DNA - the SNIPER assay
Dr Paul Yeh
Paediatric Data driven healthcare improvement
Professor Katrina Williams
The syncope-stopper study: Comparison of upfront pasing with standard care for high-risk patients with unexplained syncope
Associate Professor Aleksandr Voskoboinik
Discovering novel epigenetic targets for future combinational immunotherapy trials in brain cancer
Dr Elizabeth Ahern
A biomarker platform for personalised management of cancer immunotherapy toxicity
Dr Miles Andrews
Improving mental healthcare services - Perceived need for mental health care, learning from what Australians say in two decades of national surveys
Dr Joanne Enticott
Monash Partners Community and Consumer Involvement evaluation
Ms Joanne Ong

2017-2020
Establishing a Monash Partners national reference centre for molecular monitoring of residual disease in acute myeloid leukaemia
Associate Professor Andrew Wei
Exploratory analysis of circulating-free RNA as a non-invasive biomarker in multiple myeloma (MM) utilising the Myeloma and Related Diseases Registry (MRDR) and the Australasian Myeloma Research consortium (AMARC)
Professor Andrew Spencer
Prediction of mortality following admission to intensive care after cardiac arrest
Professor David Kaye
The PRECISE assay: Personalised medicine for cancer patients using next-generation sequencing
Dr Sarah To
SNOTWATCH Asthma: Mapping childhood viruses in real time to improve asthma health outcomes
Professor Jim Buttery
Towards evidence-based surgical planning for paediatric tonsillectomy
Professor Gillian Nixon
PROTECT: a new treatment to prevent cerebral palsy
Dr Kirsten Palmer
New approaches for peri menopausal depression
Professor Jayashri Kulkarni
Below is a range of projects funded through an annual community event, 65km for Cystic Fibrosis (www.65kmforcf.com.au). Funds are made available for Cystic Fibrosis research or research that improves the quality of Cystic Fibrosis care in hospitals.
2022
Motherhood and lung transplantation
Dr Miranda Paraskeva
Can exercise replace chest physiotherapy for people with cystic fibrosis?
Professor Anne Holland
Validating a potential new target for the treatment of cystic fibrosis
Professor Ray Norton
2019
A new diagnostic approach to guide treatment of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in cystic fibrosis
Dr Paul King
Adolescent and young adult perspectives on life after lung transplantation: A qualitative study
Dr Miranda Paraskeva
Does Intensive Glucose Management, non-invasively assessed by a flash Continuous Glucose Monitoring system, improve clinical outcomes during acute pulmonary exacerbations?
Dr Georgia Soldatos
2018
Defining the presence of macrophage and neutrophil extracellular traps as a therapeutic target in early-stage cystic fibrosis – extension of funding from 2017
Dr Paul King
Combatting pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in paediatric patients with cystic fibrosis
Dr Cornelia Landersdorfer
The airway microbiota in advanced cystic fibrosis in lung disease: its relationship to early life factors
Dr Katherine Frayman
2017
Defining the presence of macrophage and neutrophil extracellular traps as a therapeutic target in early-stage cystic fibrosis
Dr Paul King
Cystic fibrosis related diabetes (CFRD) model of care: Optimising patient centred healthcare delivery in the inpatient and outpatient setting
Dr Georgia Soldatos
2016
Is implementation of the 2006 Australasian Clinical Practice Guidelines for Nutrition in Cystic Fibrosis associated with improvements in nutritional status? National data from the Australian Cystic Fibrosis Data Registry
Associate Professor David Armstrong
CF questionnaire assessing disease knowledge in adolescents with CF
Dr Moya Vandeleur