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

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