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Round 22 Small Research Grant Recipients Announced
This year, 13 applications for funding were received for Round 22 of the Small Research Grants Program. With support from the Northern Health Foundation, six projects were chosen by our Research Grant and Scholarship Committee, receiving a total funding of $28,387. Research grants are selected for funding based on a selection of key criteria including
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A week of Conversations on Mental Wellness
As an organisation, we started the Conversations on Mental Wellness last year, and will be continuing those conversations this year too. I would like to invite staff to participate in Northern Health’s Conversations on Mental Wellness being held across all sites, commencing Monday, 9 September through to Friday, 13 September 2019. Northern Health’s ongoing commitment
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Georgia Pitts: Music Therapist
“When you are happy, you enjoy the music, when you are sad, you understand the lyrics.” Georgia Pitts is a final year music therapy student currently on placement in our Children’s Ward two days a week. She runs nursery rhyme groups twice a week, and solo sessions with patients and families the rest of the
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Reaching Nou Heights: Dr Suzi Nou
Dr Suzi Nou describes herself as ‘an ordinary person who happens to be an anaesthetist’. She also happens to be the first Cambodian-Australian Chair of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) and only the fifth woman to hold this post – besides being the first representative from Northern Health. Established in 1934, the Australian Society
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Translational research growing at Northern Health
In many ways our research capacity and capabilities are growing significantly at Northern Health and it’s important to acknowledge some key recent developments. NHMRC Grant for Interactive Digital Technologies Melbourne University, in Collaboration with Northern Health, has received a $2.5 million NHMRC Grant to create research capability in digital population health research and methods that
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NHMRC Grant for Interactive Digital Technologies
In partnership with University of Melbourne, Northern Health has received a $2.5 million NHMRC grant for research focused on patient-developed digital technology for treating chronic disease. Brian Oldenburg is Professor of Non-Communicable Disease Control in the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne and has been working together with Professor Peter Brooks on the application
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Alison Bannan: Wound clinic war on waste
At our Quarterly Staff Recognition Awards held in May, Alison Bannan won the Innovation Award for the ‘Wound Clinic War on Waste’ campaign she started in 2018. She was nominated by Eryn Mcnamara, who explained that once the audit of clinical waste started, it was determined that a lot of rubbish being put in these
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Successful Cath Lab in-situ simulation
Recently, the HRO Transformation Team organised and delivered another successful in-situ simulation, this time held in the Cath Lab and supported by our multi-disciplinary staff. Brooke Williams, Project Support Officer, said Northern Health is holding simulations for quality and safety purposes, and not for education purposes, which is what is usually done in hospitals. “We
