Grants Award Ceremony

EMF celebrated the recipients of EMF’s latest Queensland Research Program grant rounds at a function in Brisbane on Wednesday, 22nd February.

This event is an annual fixture for EMF, providing the EMF Board with an opportunity to publically congratulate the recent grant recipients from our Queensland Research Program as well as celebrate the ground-breaking research outcomes from this Program.

EMF’s Queensland Research Program is fully funded by the Queensland Government and we were privileged to have as our special guest , the Member for Nudgee, Leanne Linard MP, we attended on behalf of the Queensland Minster for Health and the Minister for Ambulance Services, Cameron Dick MP.

Ms Linard is Chair of the Health, Communities, Disability Services and Domestic Family Violence Prevention Committee.

Also speaking at the event were three emergency medicine researchers, and recipients of previous EMF grants: Dr Alexandra Markwell, Associate Professor Julia Crilly and Associate Professor Doug Morel.

At the event, EMF awarded 20 research grants totalling $1,266,626 in funding during the last two grant rounds. Today’s successful recipients were selected from 49 grant applications, requesting $4.7 million. This was the highest number of grant applications ever received by EMF.

EMF Chair, Associate Professor Sally McCarthy said the EMF Board was particularly delighted to see an increase from first-time applicants as well as the number of applications from research teams based in regional and rural emergency departments.

“Half of the funding was awarded to hospitals in the Gold Coast HHS, followed by grants to The Townsville Hospital. For the first time, we awarded grants to the Toowoomba Hospital, Mt Isa Hospital, Rockhampton Hospital and Logan Hospital,” said A/Prof McCarthy.

Scroll down for more information on grant recipients and photos from the event.

Pictured above: Prof John Fraser (accepting award on behalf of Prof Louise Cullen), Dr Don Campbell, Dr Shane George, Leane Linard MP, A/Prof Gerben Keijzers, A/Prof Sally McCarthy, Dr Shane Martin, Dr Rina Savage, Dr Gary Mitchell and Dr Erik Wood

Grant award recipients:

	Principal investigator		Project title			Site	Amount ($)
Trainee
1	Dr Gary Mitchell		Diagnosis of Acute Coronary Occlusion in patients with a Ventricular Paced Rhythm		Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital		16,866
2	Dr Richard Pellatt		Effect of Buddy Taping vs Plaster in Boxer’s Fractures (5thMC) –Buddy Study		Gold Coast University Hospital		17,425
3	Dr Amy Archer-Jones		Will a replicable ultrasound training intervention improve intravenous cannulation processes?		Gold Coast University Hospital		22,541
4	Dr Rina Savage		Prescribing patterns and communication for oxycodone on ED discharge		Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital		34,955
5	Dr Sangeeth Mohan		Carotid Doppler Ultrasound with Passive Leg Raise for fluid responsiveness		Logan Hospital		5,150
Staff Specialist
6	Dr Jacob Crosdale		Head and Neck Trauma Transfers for Scanning		Toowoomba Hospital		8,620
7	Dr Sheree Conroy		Patients transfers from rural hospitals – are we getting it right?		Toowoomba Hospital		5,940
8	Dr Mark Scott		The Value of Avoiding the Pain of IV Catheter Failure		Caboolture Hospital		30,550
9	Dr Ogilvie Thom		Link between clinical errors and emergency shift patterns?		Nambour Hospital		19,796
10	Dr Shane George		Is prednisolone an effective treatment for Bell’s Palsy in children?		Gold Coast University Hospital		68,179
11	Dr Luke Burman		Ketamine versus Propofol in sedation of psychiatric patients requiring retrieval		The Townsville Hospital		$8,400
12	Dr Geoffrey Rofe		Evaluating rates of skin colonisation with MRSA or Group A Streptococci		Mt Isa Hospital		68,224
13	Dr Denise Blake		First aid oxygen treatment of divers with decompression sickness		The Townsville Hospital		30,003
14	Dr Shane Martin		A brief psychological intervention to promote recovery after mild TBI		Ipswich Hospital		69,657
15	Dr Erik Wood		Propofol on Trial for Headaches in the Emergency Department setting		Redcliffe Hospital		7,860
Project
16	Dr Don Campbell		FEISTY – Fibrinogen Early In Severe Trauma studY		Gold Coast University Hospital		292,937
17	Prof Louise Cullen		Too much of a good thing; Does fluid resuscitation worsen septic shock?		Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital		77,233
18	Dr Shane George		Kids THRIVE study: preventing low oxygen levels during emergency intubation in children.		Gold Coast University Hospital		282,290
19	Dr Mark Edwards		A data linkage and patient outcome study of aeromedical retrieval services in Central Queensland		Rockhampton		50,000
Research Scholarship
20	Dr Jeremy Furyk		Management of Paediatric Status Epilepticus in Australia and New Zealand		The Townsville Hospital		150,000
					TOTAL		1,266,626

 

One Quarter founders, Mr Spencer Hayward, Mr Dhruv Goel and Mr Zachary Hayward with Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital’s Dr Alex Markwell, Ms Susan Cox and Ms Angela O’Malia

 

Member for Nudgee, Leanne Linard MP

Members of the EMF Research Support Network, Ms Sharleen Young, Ms Tegwen Howell, Mr Richard Henshaw, Dr Julia Hocking and Ms Kelly Foster

Grant recipient, Dr Shane Martin with members of the research team: Dr Simon Smith, Dr Shannon Edmed and Prof Justin Kenardy

 

The EMF Board: Mr Jason Currie, A/Prof Ed Oakley, Dr John Wakefield, A/Prof Sally McCarthy, Dr Peter Isdale AM, Dr David Spain and Dr Michael Sinnott

Ms Champika Pattullo, Dr Gary Mitchell, Ms Caitlin Lock and Dr Rina Savage

Ms Tracey Hawkins, Dr Jaimi Greenslade and Dr Shane Martin

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