Congratulations to Narelle Cox, Gemma Sharp and Karin Jandeleit-Dahm on NHMRC Investigator grants!

L-R: Dr Narelle Cox, A/Prof  Gemma Sharp and Professor Karin
Jandeleit-Dahm have won NHMRC Investigator grants

Congratulations to our National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator grant recipients in Central Clinical School (CCS) Dr Narelle Cox, Associate Professor Gemma Sharp and Professor Karin Jandeleit-Dahm.

Dr Narelle Cox's (Department of Respiratory Research@Alfred) EL2 project is "Improving access to non-pharmacological treatment in chronic respiratory disease", and has been awarded $1,526,390 

Associate Professor Gemma Sharp's (Department of Neuroscience) EL2 project is "Smartphone sensors: Predicting changes in mental health and delivering "just in time" interventions", and has been awarded $1,526,390 

Body image concerns impact more than a third of young people and are linked with eating disorders, anxiety, depression and suicidality. This program of research will harness the popularity of smartphones to predict when young people are struggling with their body image from the way they are using their phones, and provide the right level of personalised support via “just in time” online interventions. If effective, this work will translate into improved body image for at-risk young people. 

Professor Karin Jandeleit-Dahm's (Department of Diabetes) L2 project is "Reducing the burden of diabetic complications" and has been awarded $2,382,170

Early career researcher’s paper honoured in Faculty awards

Dr Narelle Cox has won one of the six 2022 MNHS ECR publication
prizes for her paper on telerehabilitation for chronic respiratory disease.

by Anne Crawford

A paper reviewing the merits of telerehabilitation for Chronic Respiratory Disease has won one of the six Monash Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Faculty Early Career Researcher Publication Prizes 2022 (see detail of prizes in Monash intranet).

The global review by Central Clinical School physiotherapist/academic Dr Narelle Cox was awarded the Jenny Keating Prize for Nursing and Allied Health.

Congratulations to Arwel Jones and Narelle Cox on Lung Foundation Australia grants

L-R: Dr Narelle Cox and Dr Arwel Jones have both won Lung
Foundation Australia grants.

Congratulations to Dr Arwel Jones and Dr Narelle Cox in the Department of Respiratory Research@Alfred, Monash University,who have both won Lung Foundation Australia (LFA) grants.

The LFA awarded a total of $876,000 to 13 research grants from the Hope Research Fund in several different research areas, including asthma, bronchiectasis, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD), and lung cancer.

Read more from Dr Jones and Dr Cox below. See also the LFA news story.

Participants sought: Can exercise replace chest physiotherapy for people with cystic fibrosis?

Participants with CF sought for virtual discussion group on
how best to test if exercise can replace airway clearance.
See more: Study flier

Can exercise replace chest physiotherapy for people with cystic fibrosis? Partnering with consumers to address a research priority

People with cystic fibrosis (CF) have indicated that finding out if exercise can replace daily physiotherapy (airway clearance) is an area of research priority for them. However, the best way to test whether exercise can replace airway clearance is not clear. 

We are running a study to understand the thoughts and experiences of people with CF

‘Thank you for asking’: patient-centred research helps drive change in lung disease treatment

Physiotherapist monitoring and providing guidance for at home patients.
Image: Dr Narelle Cox. See also Narelle describing the research: video

Monash University researchers are giving new hope to people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), with the COVID-19 pandemic prompting some of the first innovations in treatment models in 30 years.

See more:

• Faculty story
• First author, Dr Narelle Cox, describing the research (video 2:57 mins).

2021 Alfred Health Week winners!

Congratulations to our Central Clinical School researchers who won awards during Alfred Research Week (asterisked in the list below). The entire research community was recognised.

Alfred Research Alliance video showcase 2021

The Alfred Research Alliance precinct is home to more than 1500 researchers and 1100 postgraduate students, all committed to solving some of the biggest health challenges of our time.

To celebrate Alfred Health Week, we asked 20 of them, including CCS's Matt Snelson (Diabetes), Narelle Cox (Respiratory Research@Alfred), Emily Edwards (Immunology and Pathology), Tiffany Phillips (Melbourne Sexual Health Centre), Jason Palazzolo (Australian Centre for Blood Diseases), Julia Sewell (Medical Education) and more to tell us a little bit more about their research, and how it will improve health outcomes for all Australians. Check out their videos!

Video gallery: www.alfredresearchalliance.org.au/research/alfred-health-week-2021/video-showcase-2021/