(Formerly known as Central Clinical School)
The AHTRAC will advise leadership on ways to strengthen allied health translational research opportunities within and beyond our School, advise on pathways for allied health clinicians to undertake research and research higher degrees at CCS, and provide allied health researchers with opportunities to expand their networks, share knowledge and access support.
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| L-R: Prof Anne Holland, Prof Natasha Lannin & Adj A/Prof Charles Pilgrim |
Congratulations to Professors Anne Holland and Natasha Lannin, and to Adjunct Associate Professor Charles Pilgrim on their successful applications for MRFF Clinician-Researcher funding. A/Prof Pilgrim was successful earlier this year for this project under the MRFF RCRDUN scheme.
See the Monash story, "Monash awarded $5.9m for rehabilitation research projects" for detail of Professors Lannin's and Holland's projects, and summaries below.
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| L-R: Professor Natasha Lannin has been nominated a global leader in Rehabilitation Therapy, Professor Paul Myles a top researcher in the field of Anesthesiology and Emeritus Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld in Neurosurgery in The Australian's RESEARCH 2021 List. |
The Australian’s Research magazine takes a deep dive into Australian research, revealing its excellence in The List (published November 10, 2021). Congratulations to our researchers - see detail below.
The authors, Tim Dodd and Paul McCarthy, write, "Not for many decades has the value of research been so clear. Less than two years after the appearance of a new and dangerous virus, and thanks to countless researchers in infectious disease, immunology, epidemiology and other fields, we now have many effective vaccines in mass production, and numerous tests and treatments for Covid-19.
"In The Australian’s annual Research magazine, we acknowledge the talent and dedication of our researchers. And again, as we have for the previous four years, we present The List – a roll call of the best researchers and the best research institutions in Australia in 250 individual fields of research."
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| A citizen jury generates helpful ideas for improving care and rehabilitation for people with acquired brain injury. |
The idea of a jury – 12 impartial men and women hearing evidence, just like in a courtroom – isn’t absolutely new to medical research, but it is unusual.
The principle is to get ordinary people with no previous involvement or biases in an area of healthcare to get a crash-course in it, and report back.
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| Rehabilitation for brain injury patients can be lifelong. A Citizen Jury was asked for their recommendations on best care. Study |
Brain injury rehabilitation is long‐term - in fact, it can be lifelong - and not cheap. So far, little published information or debate has informed policy for service delivery in Australia.
As health budgets are finite, there are major challenges to providing the best care to people with brain injuries.
Members of the public were invited to take part in a Citizen Jury at the Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Centre in Melbourne. The ABI Centre features single-bed rooms at Caulfield Hospital and provides rehabilitation to meet the needs of people with severe brain injuries, resulting from trauma, stroke and other medical causes of acquired brain injury. The Citizen Jurists were asked, ‘What considerations are important to include in a model of care of brain injury rehabilitation?’
Professor Natasha Lannin and Dr Laura Jolliffe of the Brain Recovery and Rehabilitation Group in Monash University's Department of Neuroscience explain how their research and practice support the rehabilitation of people with neurological damage from stroke or brain injuries to regain function and independence.
Prof Lannin is a Chief Investigator on three new trials which have received funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Partnerships Projects program this year (project list link).
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| Professor Natasha Lannin |
