Director

Sandy Middleton

Sandy Middleton

Professor of Nursing and 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

Kate Makroglou

Kate Makroglou

Linda Patel

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]

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
Personal Assistant to Director of NRI

Tara Doyle

Tara Doyle
Personal Assistant to Director of NRI

Joylynn Israel

Joylynn Israel
Acting 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

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


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

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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