Director

Professor Sandy Middleton

Professor of Nursing and Director of the Nursing Research Institute

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Nursing

Research Team Sydney

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Simeon Dale
Clinical Research Fellow
Quality in Acute Stroke Care Australasia Trial Manager
Acute Stroke Nurses Education Network Co-Chair

Oyebola Fasugba

Dr Oyebola Fasugba
Senior Research Officer
Quality in Acute Stroke Care Australasia Project Manager

Dr Nicola Straiton

Dr Nicola Straiton
Senior Research Fellow

Kelly Coughlan

Kelly Coughlan
Research Officer
PhD Candidate

Joylynn Israel

Joylynn Israel
Research Officer

Tess Holman

Tessa Holman
Research Officer

 Linda Patel

Linda Patel
Research Officer

Heilok Cheng

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

Research Team Melbourne

Alysia Coventry

Alysia Coventry
Senior Research Officer
PhD Candidate

Jake McMahon

Jake McMahon
ACU Clinical Fellow, PhD Candidate and St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne Research Coordinator, ACCELERATE Plus Trial and ACCELERATE Up Study

Kim Choate

Kim Choate
Pain Management Nurse Practitioner, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
The PEACE Study - The effect of a nurse-led PErioperative pain clinic intervention on Analgesic reduction and length of hospital stay in Chronic pain patients having Elective surgery.

Allied Health Sydney

Lauren Christie

 

Dr Lauren Christie
ACU Clinical Fellow, Allied Health Senior Implementation Science Research Fellow, St Vincent’s Health Network Sydney / Head of Department, St Vincent’s Allied Health Research Unit

Kate Makroglou

 

Kate Makroglou
Research Occupational Therapist - Allied Health Research Unit

Maddison Smith

 

Maddison Smith
Research Officer - Allied Health Research Unit

Administration Team

Patty Zenonos

Patty Zenonos
Executive Officer

Tara Doyle

Tara Doyle
Personal Assistant to Director of NRI (Part-time)

Danielle Brown

Danielle Brown
Personal Assistant to Director of NRI (Part-time)

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

Jake McMahon
ACU Clinical Fellow, PhD Candidate and St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne Research Coordinator, ACCELERATE Plus Trial and ACCELERATE Up Study

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