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How can busy hospital staff ensure patients receive their medications on time? This is the focus of pharmacist Linda Graudin's research at The Alfred - find out how she's going in the #AlfredHealthWeek Video Showcase alfredresearchalliance.org.au/research/alfre…
Congratulations to Prof Dianna Magliano OAM from Baker Institute, this year's winner of the Alfred Research Alliance Clinical Research Prize! Dianna and her team conducted a multi-country analysis of diabetes trends, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology #AlfredHealthWeek
Jade Jaffar is a senior scientist in respiratory medicine at The Alfred, trialing new therapeutics for patients with lung fibrosis. Find out more in the #AlfredHealthWeek Video Showcase alfredresearchalliance.org.au/research/alfre…
Next in the #AlfredHealthWeek Video Showcase is research fellow Arwel W Jones from @MonashCCS, who is researching severe flare-ups of lung conditions such as asthma and bronchiectasis and what measures are useful to help patients manage their symptoms. alfredresearchalliance.org.au/research/alfre…
Congrats to Dr Tin Kyaw from Baker Institute, this year's winner of the Alfred Research Alliance Basic Research Prize! Tin's award-winning paper was published in the European Heart Journal & looked at the role of B cells in adaptive immune responses to myocardial infarction.
Palliative care doctor Naomi Katz and her team at The Alfred wanted to find out how medical and nursing staff were affected by distress during the #COVID19 pandemic. She tells us more in the #AlfredHealthWeek Video Showcase alfredresearchalliance.org.au/research/alfre…
Pharmacist Nathan Kwong from The Alfred is one of many researchers looking at the impacts of the #COVID19 pandemic - find out more about his research into how isolation measures affected patient care in the ED in the #AlfredHealthWeek Video Showcase alfredresearchalliance.org.au/research/alfre…
Concussion has been a big topic in the media, but Dr. Jennifer Makovec Knight from The Alfred wanted to focus on our littlest athletes & find out whether headgear can prevent concussion in junior Aussie Rules. Watch her video in the #AlfredHealthWeek Video Showcase alfredresearchalliance.org.au/research/alfre…
Did Victoria's #COVID19 hotel quarantine program help to keep patients out of the The Alfred ED? This was one of the questions in Dr Rob Melvin's research - find out the answer in the #AlfredHealthWeek Video Showcase alfredresearchalliance.org.au/research/alfre…
The 2022 #AlfredHealthWeek Abstract Prizes have been announced! Congratulations to all our prize winners on this well-deserved recognition of your hard work & dedication to solving some of the world's biggest health challenges 👏 See the full list here: alfredresearchalliance.org.au/latest-news/20…
ED physician Biswadev Mitra from The Alfred ran a randomised controlled trial to see if there was a way to reduce the use of opioids and find safer alternatives for pain relief. He told us more about it in the #AlfredHealthWeek Video Showcase alfredresearchalliance.org.au/research/alfre…
If you call an ambulance for chest pain at 8am on a Monday, do you receive different treatment to someone who calls at midnight on Sunday? Rohan Navani from The Alfred has crunched the numbers and reveals more in the #AlfredHealthWeek Video Showcase alfredresearchalliance.org.au/research/alfre…
Kicking off the final day of #AlfredHealthWeek is sexual health registrar Ranjit Samra from MSHC Research, who is investigating PrEP access in Australia. Find out more about what his research involves in the Video Showcase alfredresearchalliance.org.au/research/alfre…
PhD student Sanuki Tissera is looking at how many lung cancer patients are receiving guideline treatment, and what the differences are between those who receive it & those who don't. What has she discovered? Find out in the #AlfredHealthWeek Video Showcase alfredresearchalliance.org.au/research/alfre…
Our final video in the #AlfredHealthWeek Video Showcase comes from Dr Christiaan Yu, a sleep physician at The Alfred. During #COVID19 we discovered that lying patients on their stomach helps them breathe, but what does it mean for quality of sleep? alfredresearchalliance.org.au/research/alfre…
Congratulations once again to all our #AlfredHealthWeek prize winners. Head to the Alfred Research Alliance blog to see the winners from each category, and to view the recording of this year's Keynote Address alfredresearchalliance.org.au/news-and-event…