Director and Deputy Director

Sandy Middleton

Sandy Middleton

Professor of Nursing and Director of the Nursing Research Institute.

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Professor Elizabeth McInnes

Elizabeth McInnes

Professor Elizabeth McInnes is Deputy Director of the Nursing Research Institute.

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Research team

NRI Sydney

Heilok Cheng

Heilok Cheng
Research Officer (Casual), St Vincent's Hospital Sydney

Lauren Christie

Dr Lauren Christie
Allied Health Senior Research Fellow, Implementation Science Research, St Vincent's Health Network Sydney

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Simeon Dale
Clinical Research Fellow and QASC Program Manager

Oyebola Fasugba

Dr Oyebola Fasugba
Senior Research Officer, QASC Australia Project Manager

Tess Holman

Tess Holman

 Kelly Jones

Kelly Jones
Research Officer

Kate Makroglou

Kate Makroglou

 Sawsan Saheb

Sawsan Saheb
Research Officer

Maddison Smith

Maddison Smith

Dr Nicola Straiton

Dr Nicola Straiton
Research Fellow (Implementation Science) [Maridulu Budyari Gumal Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE) Implementation Science Platform]

Susan Whittam

Ms Susan Whittam
ACCELERATE Plus Project Manager, Clinical Nurse Consultant - Implementation Research, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney

NRI Melbourne

Alysia Coventry

Alysia Coventry

Kelly Coughlan

Kelly Coughlan
Research Officer

Jake McMahon

Jake McMahon
ACCELERATE Plus Part-time Project Officer and PhD candidate

Administration

Danielle Brown

Danielle Brown

Tara Doyle

Tara Doyle
Personal Assistant to Director of NRI

Patty Zenonos

Patty Zenonos
Institute Manager (+612 8382 3791)

NRI Clinician Researchers

St Vincent's Hospital Network Sydney

Nursing

Julie Gawthorne
Clinical Nurse Consultant, Emergency Department, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
Maridulu Budyari Gumal, the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise Implementation Science Research Platform

Kirsty Page
Clinical Nurse Consultant, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
AVERT-DOSE (Determining Optimal early rehabilitation after StrokE): A multi-arm covariate-adjusted, response-adaptive randomised controlled trial
ReCAPS: Recovery-focused Community support to Avoid readmissions and improve Participation after Stroke
QASC Australasia Trial

Lisa Paquin
Clinical Nurse Consultant, Renal Ambulatory Care, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
Peritoneal dialysis patients' health and well-being and satisfaction with care

Jane Rodgers
ACU Clinical Fellow
Clinical Nurse Consultant, Wound Care, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence in Wiser Wound Care

Allied Health

Dr Paul Andrews
PhD, Social Work Educator, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
A clinical service evaluation of an integrated social work led model of care in responding to domestic and family violence

Dr Liana Cahill
PhD, Occupational Therapist & Blinded Assessor, Allied Health Research Unit, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
ReCITE: Remote Constraint Induced Therapy of the upper Extremity: An implementation study

Vivien Cheung
Dietitian & Research Assistant, Eating Disorders Service, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
Barriers and facilitators to the delivery of evidence-based care for people with eating disorders in an acute care setting

Natasha Gillman
Stroke Unit Physiotherapist, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
AVERT-DOSE (Determining Optimal early rehabilitation after StrokE): A multi-arm covariate-adjusted, response-adaptive randomised controlled trial

Mallory Hall
PhD candidate, Honorary Dietitian, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
The impact of pre-operative nutrition support in heart and lung transplant patients: A feasibility study

Dr Susan Hart
PhD, Eating Disorders Co-ordinator, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
Barriers and facilitators to the delivery of evidence-based care for people with eating disorders in an acute care setting

Andrea Huang
Occupational Therapist & Blinded Assessor, Allied Health Research Unit, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
ReCITE: Remote Constraint Induced Therapy of the upper Extremity: An implementation study

Laura Lincoln
Speech Pathologist, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
The impact of speech pathology intervention pre 3-stage oesophagectomy on post-operative health outcomes

Terri Maister
Dietitian & Research Assistant, Eating Disorders Service, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney (from September 2023)
Barriers and facilitators to the delivery of evidence-based care for people with eating disorders in an acute care setting

Kate Makroglou
Occupational Therapist & Blinded Assessor, Allied Health Research Unit, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
ReCITE: Remote Constraint Induced Therapy of the upper Extremity: An implementation study
SUppoRting PAtient-centred SurvivorShip (SURPASS) at St Vincent's Health Network: Adaptation and adoption of the 'My Personal Plan' Prostate Cancer Survivorship Care Plan for generic use

Noah Mitchell
Physiotherapy Manager, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
AVERT-DOSE (Determining Optimal early rehabilitation after StrokE): A multi-arm covariate-adjusted, response-adaptive randomised controlled trial

Jaslyn Nash
Occupational Therapist & Blinded Assessor, Allied Health Research Unit, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
ReCITE: Remote Constraint Induced Therapy of the upper Extremity: An implementation study

Meredith Rogers
Senior Occupational Therapist & Accredited Hand Therapist, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
AVERT-DOSE (Determining Optimal early rehabilitation after StrokE): A multi-arm covariate-adjusted, response-adaptive randomised controlled trial
Evaluation of patient satisfaction and outcomes associated with a hand therapy service in a metropolitan hospital

Adele Sheridan-Magro
Manager, Domestic and Family Violence Service, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
A clinical service evaluation of an integrated social work led model of care in responding to domestic and family violence

Dr Christine Shiner
PhD, Senior Research Officer, Department of Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
ReCITE: Remote Constraint Induced Therapy of the upper Extremity: An implementation study

Amelia Starkey
Speech Pathologist, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
The impact of speech pathology intervention pre 3-stage oesophagectomy on post-operative health outcomes

Trang Truong
Physiotherapist & Blinded Assessor, Allied Health Research Unit, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
ReCITE: Remote Constraint Induced Therapy of the upper Extremity: An implementation study
AVERT-DOSE (Determining Optimal early rehabilitation after StrokE): A multi-arm covariate-adjusted, response-adaptive randomised controlled trial

Katie Weston
Occupational Therapist & Blinded Assessor, Allied Health Research Unit, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
ReCITE: Remote Constraint Induced Therapy of the upper Extremity: An implementation study

St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne

Nursing

John Forster
ACU Clinical Fellow
Mental Health Nurse Consultant, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
Optimising the response to mental health deterioration: Nurses' experiences of using a Mental Health Observation Response Chart

Katherine McBrearty
Practice Development Nurse - Projects
Understanding the short and longer-term impacts of a Registered Undergraduate Student of Nursing (RUSON) workforce

Jake McMahon
ACU Clinical Fellow
PhD Candidate & St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne Research Coordinator
ACCELERATE Trial

Tom Wilson
Senior Psychiatric Nurse, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
Implementing the Broset Violence Checklist and Intervention Protocol in St Vincent's Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit to predict and mitigate the risk of violence

St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) Research Interest Group Members

An informal platform for research collaboration, support and networking for nurse clinicians to build SVHM nurse-led research capacity

Katherine McBrearty (Chair)

Practice Development Nurse

Kelly Coughlan (Co-Chair)

Research Officer, NRI

Megan Carmichael

Acting Nursing Manager, Emergency Department

Leslie Coo

Clinical Nurse Specialist, Geriatric Evaluation and Management

Kathryn Connor

Nurse Unit Manager, Neurosurgery

Amanda Connors

Manager Specialist Practice, Education and Learning

Anne Craigie

Hepatology Nurse Practitioner, Gastroenterology

Danila Durante

Librarian

John Forster

Mental Health Nurse Consultant

Stephanie Fry

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nurse Practitioner

Shaoyun Guan

Registered Nurse, Caritas Christi Hospice

Corrine Howell

Acute Program Manager, HITH, District Nursing, Pall Care @Home, Residential InReach

Anna Lovang

Research Librarian

Julie-Ann Martin

Nurse Practitioner Candidate, Clinical Nurse Specialist, ICU

Professor Elizabeth McInnes

Deputy Director, NRI

Jake McMahon

PhD candidate, ACCELERATE Nursing Research Coordinator, ACU & NRI

Kelly Mullins

Epicentre Research Nurse, Emergency Department

Marcella Regester

Clinical Nurse Educator, Early Careers Coordinator

Emma Reardon

Registered Nurse, Emergency Department

Tamie Samyue

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nurse Practitioner

Belinda Smith

Manager, Workforce Capability in Education and Learning, Education and Learning

Virginia Walker

Manager, Early Career Programs

Tom Whelan

Nurse Practitioner, Palliative Care Consultative Services

Bradley Whitton

Integrated Hepatology Nurse Consultant, Gastroenterology Nurse Practitioner Candidate

Tom Wilson

Senior Psychiatric Nurse

Rachel Zordan

Senior Research Fellow, Education and Learning

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