Our people

Research team

NRI Sydney

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

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

Simeon Dale
Clinical Research Fellow and QASC Program Manager

Dr Oyebola Fasugba
Senior Research Officer, QASC Australia Project Manager

Tess Holman

Kate Makroglou

Linda Patel

Maddison Smith

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

NRI Melbourne

Alysia Coventry

Kelly Coughlan
Research Officer

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

Administration

Danielle Brown
Personal Assistant to Director of NRI

Tara Doyle
Personal Assistant to Director of NRI

Joylynn Israel
Acting Personal Assistant to Director of NRI

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

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 Liana Cahill
  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
  RAISE – Robotic Arm Intervention for Stroke rEcovery: A pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial
• Jarrad Fisher
  Occupational Therapist & Blinded Assessor,
  Allied Health Research Unit, St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney
  RAISE – Robotic Arm Intervention for Stroke rEcovery: A pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial
• Natasha Gillman
  Stroke Unit Physiotherapist, St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney
  AVERT-DOSE (Determining Optimal early rehabilitation after StrokE): A multiarm covariate-adjusted, response-adaptive randomised controlled trial
• Alexis McMahon
  Speech Pathology Manager, St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney
  Barriers and facilitators to delivery of oral care in acute aged care
• Noah Mitchell
  Physiotherapy Manager, St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney
  AVERT-DOSE (Determining Optimal early rehabilitation after StrokE): A multiarm covariate-adjusted, response-adaptive randomised controlled trial
• Ailbhe Murray
  Senior Podiatrist, Podiatry Department, St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney
  Taking footcare to the streets
• Erin Musgrove
  Speech Pathologist, Speech Pathology
  Department, St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney
  Barriers and facilitators to delivery of oral care in acute aged care
• 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
  RAISE – Robotic Arm Intervention for Stroke rEcovery: A pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial
• Meredith Rogers
  Senior Occupational Therapist & Accredited Hand Therapist, St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney
  AVERT-DOSE (Determining Optimal early rehabilitation after StrokE): A multiarm 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
  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
• 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 multiarm covariate-adjusted, response-adaptive randomised controlled trial
  RAISE – Robotic Arm Intervention for Stroke rEcovery: A pilot feasibility 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
  RAISE – Robotic Arm Intervention for Stroke rEcovery: A pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial

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