Our aims and priorities are to:

• Leverage Alfred Health’s ICU initiated extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) service into a research network using the international ECMO registry (ELSO)
• Develop international perioperative medicine guidelines for endpoint definitions in large clinical trials; e.g. organ injury/failure and disability-free survival
• Continue progress on four multicentre clinical trials investigating treatments to improve quality of recovery and reduce complications after major surgery
• Facilitate improved enhanced recovery programs for hip and knee replacement surgery
• Trauma systems development, we are leading national and international efforts to:
  • Reduce injury burden through the MAIN (Monash Alfred Injury Network)
  • Improve prehospital and emergency care of critical illness through the Centre for Research Excellence on Prehospital Care and associated centres
  • Improve blood transfusion science and practice through the Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Blood Management in Critical Illness and Trauma.

The Theme is led by Professor Peter Cameron.

Professor Peter Cameron

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Professor Peter Cameron is the Academic Director of The Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre. He is also Professor of Emergency Medicine and Divisional Head of Health Services Research at Monash University’s School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

The Critical, Perioperative and Emergency Care Steering Committee brings together researchers, specialists and clinicians from across Monash Partners. They include:

• Professor Peter Cameron (Lead)
• Associate Professor Jonathan Barrett
• Professor John Botha
• Associate Professor David Brewster
• Professor DJ (Jamie) Cooper
• Dr Simon Craig
• Associate Professor Carol Hodgson
• Professor Robert Medcalf
• Professor Paul Myles
• Professor Jennie Ponsford
• Associate Professor Owen Roodenburg
• Professor Jonathan Serpell
• Professor Yahya Shehabi
• Professor Diana Egerton-Warburton.

Monash Partners is proud to support the following projects within this Theme:

Investigation of the utility and the user experiences of widespread access to accurate emergency department wait times
Dr Katie Walker

Data linkage to provide near real-time monitoring of cardiac surgical performance: A local pilot for a national process
Mr David Pilcher

Implementation of an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) program for hip and knee replacement surgery
Professor Paul Myles

In 2021 a Monash Partners Emergency Care subtheme was established under the leadership of Professor Diana Egerton-Warburton. The theme provides a unique opportunity for collaborative research and translation to improve healthcare for the community. The subtheme focuses on the problem of optimal, equitable access to emergency care and has led a large scale, collaborative funding proposal to address this complex space.

Steering Committee

The Emergency Care Steering Committee brings together a multidisciplinary group of emergency care clinicians and researchers from 13 emergency departments across the Monash Partners network. They include:

• Professor Diana Egerton-Warburton
• Ms Lisa Brichko (maternity leave)
• Dr Paul Buntine
• Professor Peter Cameron
• Professor Simon Craig
• Dr Rosamond Dwyer (maternity leave)
• Dr Simon Hendel
• Dr James Ho
• Associate Professor Lisa Kuhn
• Professor Robert Medcalf
• Dr Jennifer Mines
• Associate Professor Gerard O'Reilly
• Ms Emma Saddington
• Dr Siba Sulaeman.