MacHSR Future Leaders Fellowship program projects

These front-line clinicians are using Health Services Research (HSR) to solve practical care-delivery problems impacting their health services.

Throughout the program each Fellow upskills in HSR and is released from clinical duties for one day per week to apply this knowledge to their research project. Current and past MacHSR Fellows include clinicians from a range of disciplines across MACH-affiliated health services.

MacHSR program details

Explore the current and completed MacHSR projects in the table below

Organisation	Name	Role	Project title	Fellowship status	Download final report (completed fellowships only)
Austin Health	Patrick Hilley	Clinical Pharmacist	Investigating the use of novel virtual biologic clinics to help achieve values-based healthcare in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)	Complete	PDF
Austin Health	Elena Gerstman	Allied Health Interdisciplinary Practitioner	Using data to identify complex patients	Current	N/A
Mercy Health	Dr Anne Harrison	Physiotherapy Manager, Werribee Mercy Hospital	Increasing engagement with the patient/carer-activated escalation pathway	Complete	PDF
Mercy Health	Umesh Baskaran	Senior Occupational Therapist and Advanced Hand Therapy Practitioner	Improving patient flow through fracture clinics	Current	N/A
Northern Health	Eleanor Johnson	Research Midwife and Lactation Consultant	Partnering with consumers to co-design comprehensive abortion care in Melbourne’s North	Complete	PDF
Northern Health	Dr Sanjeevan Muruganandan	Respiratory Physician	Transforming malignant pleural effusion management: Innovative, digitally enabled models moving care from hospital to home	Current	N/A
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre	A/Prof Belinda Campbell	Deputy Director of Radiation Oncology	Improving equity of care across Australia for patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphomas (CTCL)	Complete	N/A
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre	A/Prof Anita Skandarajah	Breast and Endocrine Surgeon	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	Current	N/A
Royal Children's Hospital	Jen Corda	Senior Respiratory Physiotherapist	Cystic Fibrosis (CF) virtual care – remote monitoring and automated treatment plans	Complete	PDF
Royal Children's Hospital	Kathe Holmes	Clinical Nurse Consultant	Exploring stakeholder perspectives in implementing patient-reported outcome measures in paediatric liver and heart transplant services	Current	N/A
Royal Melbourne Hospital	Dr Timothy Chittleborough	Colorectal, General and Trauma Surgeon	Tackling the post-COVID waitlist headache at RMH	Complete	PDF
Royal Melbourne Hospital	Dr Megan Allen	Staff Specialist Anaesthetist	Patient experience of discharge after surgery with opioids from Royal Melbourne Hospital	Current	N/A
Royal Women's Hospital	Clare McDonald	Social Worker	Understanding access to advanced gestation abortion services	Complete	PDF
Royal Women's Hospital	Rochelle Lester	Senior Neonatal Physiotherapist	Coordinated follow up of infants exposed antenatally to alcohol and other drugs	Current	N/A
St Vincent's Hospital	Jake McMahon	Cancer Nurse and Trial Coordinator	Exploring the uptake of evidence-based strategies to manage and prevent pressure injuries in the cancer setting	Complete	PDF
St Vincent's Hospital	Dr Christina Trambas	Chemical Pathologist	Defining the burden of artefactual troponin elevation on hospital resource management in the ED	Current	N/A
University of Melbourne Department of General Practice and Primary Care	Dr Matthew Suen	Academic General Practitioner	Building research capacity in general practice: Identifying strategies to integrate research into routine practice	Current	N/A
Western Health	Catherine Grant	Operations Manager, Chronic and Complex Care Division	Co-design of a pathway to integrate primary and hospital care for chronic and complex disease patients	Complete	PDF
Western Health	Julia Gheller	Physiotherapist	De-implementation of gRip sOcks in-hosPital – The DROP study	Current	N/A