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Staff
Ms Siouxzy Morrison GDip CCN MPH Siouxzy is the ANZIC-RC's Executive Officer. She has extensive experience in intensive care research including project managing a number of multi-centre trials such as the ANZICS CTG endorsed ENTERIC Study. Her background includes critical care nursing and she recently completed a Masters in Public Health specialising in epidemiology.
Dr Alistair Nichol BA (Hons) MB BCh BAO (Hons) DipMan FCARCSI PhD
Dr Michael Bailey BSc(Hons) MSc PhD Michael joined the ANZIC-RC as a statistician in early 2007. He has an extensive background in biostatistics, having worked as the consulting statistician to The Alfred Hospital for over a decade. Michael has an honours degree, a Masters degree and a PhD in statistics.
Dr Cécile Aubron MD PhD Cécile is a Senior Research Fellow assisting the ANZIC-RC with existing projects being conducted at The Alfred. She has a Medical Doctorate (MD), a Masters degree in Microbiology, and Diplomas in Medical Intensive Care, Internal Medicine, and Intensive Care in Infectious Pathologies. From 2006 to 2008 Cécile was the Junior Registrar in Medical and Infectious Diseases Intensive Care at the Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital in Paris. She completed her PhD in Escherichia coli metabolic polymorphism involvement in adaptation and virulence. Cécile's experience also includes working as a physician in Africa at Cameroun, Senegal and Mali.
Ms Emma Ridley BNutrDietet APD Emma is the Australian Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (AuSPEN) / ANZIC-RC Nutrition Research Fellow. She is responsible for the management and development of the critical care nutrition research program and will project manage the POLAR-BEAR Study (a sub-study of the POLAR-RCT), investigating the metabolic effects of hypothermia in traumatic brain injury (TBI). Emma completed the Audit of Severe Acute Pancreatitis (ASAP) with the ANZIC-RC. In 2010 she received the Best Presentation Award at the ANZICS-CTG Research Development Day for her project on supplemental parenteral nutrition in critically ill adults. Emma commenced clinical work as a dietitian at The Alfred Hospital in 2005 and continues to work in the intensive care unit (ICU). Her previous research experience was in cardiovascular risk in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive individuals. She has strong clinical experience in trauma and neurosurgery and is one of five specially trained dietitians to manage percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) long term feeding tubes for home and hospital patients. Emma is aiming to consolidate research in parenteral and enteral nutrition in the ICU setting. She will complete her Masters of Public Health in 2010.
Ms Gill Syres BA GDipAdvPracN MPH
Ms Belinda Howe RN CCN BASc(Nursing) Belinda is an ANZIC-RC Research Fellow and Project Manager. She is currently project managing the STATInS (Study of Atorvostatin in Sepsis), SPICE (Sedation Practices in Intensive Care) studies and is the unblinded monitor for the EPO-TBI (Erythropoietin in Traumatic Brain Injury) study. She is also the project manager for the INFINITE Registry, a register of Influenza A and pandemic H1N109 cases in intensive care units (ICUs) for Australia and New Zealand. Belinda has a background in critical care nursing and has worked as a research co-ordinator in ICU for over 10 years. She is currently undertaking a Masters degree in Public Health.
Ms Lisa Higgins BPhysio(Hons) MPH GDipBiostat Lisa has a background in intensive care physiotherapy, and has previously worked as an intensive care research coordinator at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. More recently she has worked at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre at the University of Sydney conducting systematic reviews and economic evaluations in addition to teaching epidemiology and biostatistics to Master in Public Health (MPH) students. Lisa has an MPH majoring in epidemiology and biostatistics and a Graduate Diploma in Biostatistics.She has recently commenced a PhD in the economic analysis of resuscitation in sepsis.
Ms Lorraine Little RN GradCert Intensive Care BHSC (Nursing) MBioethics Lorraine joined the ANZIC-RC team in February 2009 as the EPO-TBI (Erythropoietin in Traumatic Brain Injury) Study Project Manager. Prior to this appointment Lorraine worked at the George Institute for International Health as a Clinical Research Associate. Her previous roles include Research and Ethics Manager, Ethics Submission Coordinator for a cancer research group, and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Research Coordinator at the highly productive Western Health Intensive Care Unit. Lorraine's background is in clinical ICU nursing. She has a strong interest in bioethics and completed a Master in Bioethics degree in 2000.
Ms Louisa Lam RN BHSc GDip(CC)MPH Louisa is a Research Fellow currently working as the Project Manager on the ARISE-RCT Study, a large multi-centre randomised trial of early goal-directed therapy in sepsis. She has a critical care nursing background and has completed a Masters degree in Public Health. Previously, Louisa worked with the Accident Research Centre and the Pre-Hospital and Trauma Group at the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. Her research area included observational injury prevention road trauma studies and randomised controlled trials in the area of heart failure. Louisa is in the process of completing her PhD entitled "Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure in the Emergency Department."
Ms Lynne Murray BAppSci FAIMS Lynne is an ANZIC-RC Adjunct Research Fellow and Project Manager. She is the Project Manager and an Associate Investigator for the POLAR-RCT (Prophylactic hypOthermia trial to Lessen trAumatic bRain injury Randomised Control Trial) Study, the Project Manager for the DECRA (DECompressive CRAniectiomy) trial, and an Associate Investigator for the Blood program. Lynne has extensive research experience in both basic science and clinical research. Her previous roles include the Clinical Research Manager (Intensive Care) at The Alfred Hospital, Lecturer in Biochemistry at Swinburne University of Technology and Research and Development Officer (Haematology/Blood Bank) at The Alfred.
PhD Scholars
Ms Lisa Higgins BPhysio(Hons) MPH GDipBiostat Lisa has recently commenced a PhD in the economic analysis of resuscitation in sepsis. She has a background in intensive care physiotherapy, and has previously worked as an intensive care research coordinator at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. More recently she has worked at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre at the University of Sydney conducting systematic reviews and economic evaluations in addition to teaching epidemiology and biostatistics to Master in Public Health (MPH) students. Lisa has an MPH majoring in epidemiology and biostatistics and a Graduate Diploma in Biostatistics. She is also a Research Fellow with the ANZIC-RC.
Dr Daryl Jones BSc(Hons) MBBS FRACP JCICM MD Daryl’s PhD will assess aspects of Medical Emergency Teams (METs) in a number of multi-centre studies. The first major area of investigation will involve assessment of the uptake of MET services in intensive care unit (ICU) equipped hospitals in Australia and New Zealand, particular in relation to the MERIT study. In conjunction with the Australian Commission for Quality and Safety in Health Care (ACQSHC) and Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Centre For Outcomes and Resources Evaluation (ANZICS-CORE), a 40 hospital study will be conducted to assess: 1) the changes in MET calls rates with time; 2) the effect of changing call rates on outcomes of hospitalized patients; and 3) predictors of changes in MET call rates. The second major area of the PhD will involve assessment of the epidemiology of the MET patient. A seven hospital study has recently been completed that will perform a detailed analysis of the role of METs in end-of-life care planning in hospitalised patients. It will also assess the circadian activation of MET calls to confirm or refute the findings seen at the Austin Hospital. Finally, a study will be conducted to assess for predictors of MET calls in surgical patients at the Austin. This thesis will provide new insights into the causes and outcomes of deterioration in hospitalized Australian patients, leading to strategies to improve the outcomes and safety of hospital admissions.
Ms Elizabeth Moore MPH Liz is currently investigating the influence of erythropoietin and early and sustained hypothermia on renal function and biomarkers in patients with traumatic brain injury. For her PhD thesis she is carrying out the Renal Sub-studies of the EPO-TBI and POLAR trials. Liz has a critical care nursing background and has completed a Master of Public Health involving a published investigation of the effect of preoperative estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and postoperative actue kidney injury on the outcomes after coronary bypass surgery. She has an ongoing interest in improving the outcomes of critically ill patients with or at risk of kidney injury.
Dr Ruwan Wijemunige MBBS Ruwan joined the ANZIC-RC in 2007 as its inaugural PhD Scholar. He is undertaking a PhD on "Improving the monitoring and protection of traumatically injured brain tissue" under the supervision of Professors Jamie Cooper and Jeffrey Rosenfeld. The research is being conducted at The Alfred Hospital in collaboration with the ANZIC-RC and Monash University. Ruwan graduated with his medical degree from The University of Melbourne in 2002 and will complete neurosurgical training after completing his PhD.
Honorary staff
Dr Daryl Jones BSc(Hons) MBBS FRACP JCICM MD Daryl was the inaugural Senior Research Fellow for the ANZIC-RC. He is an Intensive Care Specialist at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne. He is interested in a number of aspects of critical care research including the Medical Emergency Team, assessment of the circulation using PiCCO and systolic pressure variation, survey research, and adrenal dysfunction in the critically ill.
Dr Ville Pettilä Ville is an Adjunct Associate Professor with the ANZIC-RC. He was the ANZIC-RC's Senior Research Fellow in 2009 and is currently involved with a number of the ANZIC-RC's studies including as a Chief Investigator for the INFINITE Study, a Key Investigator in the Blood Study, and the Principal Investigator in Finland of the ARISE-RCT Study. In Finland Ville is the Head of Intensive Care Units (7), Vice Head of the Division of Anaesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Pain and Intensive Care Medicine in the Department of Surgery, and also sits on the Board of that Department, at the Helsinki University Central Hospital. He has published over 90 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals including original manuscripts in The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, British Journal of Haematology, Intensive Care Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and the Journal of Internal Medicine. He has been a key member of several European multi-centre randomised trials in critical care including the role of Principal Investigator for Nordic countries in the Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor in Severe Sepsis trial. Ville has also contributed to the Finnish Clinical Guidelines (Evidence Based Medicine) in severe sepsis in adults and is currently the Head of the Board in acute kidney injury. He has supervised numerous dissertations at Helsinki University with topics including "Acute renal failure in critically ill patients", "Hemodynamics and outcome in septic shock", and "Prevalence and outcome of acute respiratory failure".
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