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ResearchFest 2025 winners

Austin Health has a strong research culture and ResearchFest is a celebration of our collaborative efforts and achievements.

This year, we recognised the work of our research community through the annual ResearchFest Awards.

Congratulations to all of our award winners as well as the shortlisted finalists.

Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer Maria Perera witih Quality Improvement Award Winners Liam Wilson and Ellen Bradbury, and Senior Improvement Advisor Tavia Rudd

Award	Recipient
Distinguished Scientist Award This award celebrates individuals who have made exceptional contributions to clinical practice, research, and leadership within the health and scientific community.	Stay tuned!
AMRF Young Investigator Award This award gives early career researchers a platform for sharing their work, increasing their professional networks and practising their presentation skills. The prize encourages an early career researcher to further their research career by enabling attendance at a national or international research meeting or relevant professional development course.	Dr Chee Loong (Dominic) Chow Conduction System Pacing - novel approach to pacemaker
Allied Health Research Award The Allied Health Research award recognises excellence and rewards clinicians undertaking research. The prize is to support the researcher to attend scientific meetings to present their work or participate in training to further their research.	Nicola Burgess It's about providing the best service, tailored to what they need: A qualitative study exploring stakeholder perceptions of prehabilition for total hip and knee arthroscopy
Nurse-led Research Award To assist attendance at a national research meeting or conference or training course.	Kate Schimmelbusch Enhanced recovery after surgery in total joint arthroplasty: Nurses experiences of a pilot model of care
Quality Improvement Award The Quality Improvement (QI) award recognises and celebrates outstanding contributions to quality improvement by individuals or teams at Austin Health.	Liam Wilson & Ellen Bradbury Improving ambulance offload times in the emergency department
Consumer Partnership Award The Consumer Partnership awards aim to celebrate consumer partnership across the organisation and support the development of projects that aim to improve the patient experience.	Kate Reimers, Sally Mitchell, Ummy Amin, Emily Joules, Vanessa Griffiths, and Cheree Porter  together with consumer partners Patricia Bruce, Fay Bellis, Ray Kelly, Assunta Fogliaro, Paul Gallichio, Lily Ng and Paul Orfanos Patient Portal – Best thing since Penicillin
People's Choice Poster Award This award celebrates peer recognition and will be decided by the number of stickers on each poster in the ResearchFest Poster Exhibition at the Melbourne Brain Centre.	Stay tuned!

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Recipient

Distinguished Scientist Award

This award celebrates individuals who have made exceptional contributions to clinical practice, research, and leadership within the health and scientific community.

Stay tuned!

AMRF Young Investigator Award

This award gives early career researchers a platform for sharing their work, increasing their professional networks and practising their presentation skills. The prize encourages an early career researcher to further their research career by enabling attendance at a national or international research meeting or relevant professional development course. 

Dr Chee Loong (Dominic) Chow

Conduction System Pacing - novel approach to pacemaker

Allied Health Research Award

The Allied Health Research award recognises excellence and rewards clinicians undertaking research.

The prize is to support the researcher to attend scientific meetings to present their work or participate in training to further their research.

Nicola Burgess

It's about providing the best service, tailored to what they need: A qualitative study exploring stakeholder perceptions of prehabilition for total hip and knee arthroscopy

Nurse-led Research Award

To assist attendance at a national research meeting or conference or training course.

Kate Schimmelbusch

Enhanced recovery after surgery in total joint arthroplasty: Nurses experiences of a pilot model of care

Quality Improvement Award

The Quality Improvement (QI) award recognises and celebrates outstanding contributions to quality improvement by individuals or teams at Austin Health.

Liam Wilson & Ellen Bradbury

Improving ambulance offload times in the emergency department

Consumer Partnership Award

The Consumer Partnership awards aim to celebrate consumer partnership across the organisation and support the development of projects that aim to improve the patient experience.

Kate Reimers, Sally Mitchell, Ummy Amin, Emily Joules, Vanessa Griffiths, and Cheree Porter  together with consumer partners Patricia Bruce, Fay Bellis, Ray Kelly, Assunta Fogliaro, Paul Gallichio, Lily Ng and Paul Orfanos

Patient Portal – Best thing since Penicillin

People's Choice Poster Award

This award celebrates peer recognition and will be decided by the number of stickers on each poster in the ResearchFest Poster Exhibition at the Melbourne Brain Centre.

Stay tuned!

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