2023 MacHSR Future Leaders Cohort
These front-line clinicians are using Health Services Research (HSR) to solve practical care-delivery problems impacting their health services.
Throughout the 12-month program each Fellow is released from clinical duties for one day per week to upskill in HSR through mentorship and formal training, while also working on their own research project. The cohort includes clinicians from a range of disciplines across nine MACH-affiliated health services, plus primary care.
Meet our 2023 MacHSR Fellows
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Dr Megan Allen
Staff Specialist Anaesthetist, Royal Melbourne Hospital
Project title: Patient experience of discharge after surgery with opioids from Royal Melbourne Hospital
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Umesh Baskaran
Senior Occupational Therapist and Advanced Hand Therapy Practitioner, Mercy Health
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Elena Gerstman
Allied Health Interdisciplinary Practitioner, Austin Health
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Julia Gheller
Physiotherapist, Western Health
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Kathe Holmes
Clinical Nurse Consultant, Royal Children’s Hospital
Project title: Explore stakeholder perspectives in implementing patient-reported outcome measures in paediatric liver and heart transplant services
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Rochelle Lester
Senior Neonatal Physiotherapist, The Royal Women’s Hospital
Project title: Coordinated follow up of infants exposed antenatally to alcohol and other drugs
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Dr Sanjeevan Muruganandan
Respiratory Physician, Northern Health
Project title: Transforming malignant pleural effusion management: Innovative, digitally enabled models moving care from hospital to home
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A/Prof Anita Skandarajah
Breast and Endocrine Surgeon, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Project title: Routine Patient Reported Outcome Measures for women undergoing breast cancer surgery: setting up a PROMS platform to encompass patient-centred care, health service quality improvement and research
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Dr Matthew Suen
Academic General Practitioner, University of Melbourne Department of General Practice
Project title: Building research capacity in general practice: Identifying strategies to integrate research into routine practice
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Dr Christina Trambas
Chemical Pathologist, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Project Title: Defining the burden of artefactual troponin elevation on hospital resource management in the ED
