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

Sawsan Saheb
Research Officer

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 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