Thanks to all who joined us for a day of celebration and discovery, as we showcased the people working to improve the health of our community through research.
Session One Highlights
Keynote presentation: ‘Why clinician researchers activate the health system’ by Professor Russell Gruen, former Dean of Health and Medicine, ANU; specialist trauma surgeon; researcher; Director of Research Australia
Announcement of the inaugural recipients of the Barwon Deakin Business of Health Seed Grants by Erica Grundell, Co-Director, Research, Barwon Health
Presentations by Finalists in the Best Paper of the Year Award
Launch of the 2023 – 2024 Barwon Health Research Report by Professor Peter Vuillermin, Clinical Director, Research, Barwon Health
Session Two Highlights
An around the grounds short sharp look at some of the excellent work undertaken throughout 2024 by our emerging and established clinician researchers
Session 3 Highlights
Lessons for success from Barwon Health research leaders to inform and inspire current and potential clinician researchers
Presentation of 2024 Research Prizes by Frances Diver, Chief Executive, Barwon Health
Presentation of the inaugural Barwon Health Research Career Achievement Award to Professor Mark Kotowicz
Throughout the day
In addition to the high quality presentations and discussions, there was still the invaluable opportunity to catch up with colleagues and friends, develop new collaborations, and view the outstanding research posters submitted for a 2024 prize.
The 2023 Barwon Health Research Symposium was a great success! A crowd of over 90 – in person and online – were treated to an impressive line-up of presentations and posters that highlighted the important work being conducted throughout Barwon Health and across the healthcare spectrum. The Symposium celebrated our year in research and reinforced the strong sense that we’re all part of something important. It also demonstrated how our shared endeavours can contribute to better health and wellbeing outcomes – here in the Barwon South West region, nationally and internationally.
Research Prizes
Frances Diver, Chief Executive, Barwon Health, presented the 2023 Research Prizes to the following winners:
Best Paper of the Year Award (Clinician researcher):
- Dr Bridgette McNamara, Barwon South West Public Health Unit: Comprehensive case-control study of protective and risk factors for Buruli Ulcer, southeastern Australia
Best Paper of the Year Award (Scientist):
- Dr Luba Sominsky, IMPACT and CHeRUB: Pre-pregnancy obesity is associated with greater systemic inflammation and increased risk of antenatal depression
Research Poster Awards:
- Basic Science: Trang Truong, IMPACT, Deakin University: Network-based drug repurposing for schizophrenia (accepted by Dr Bruna Pannizutti Parry)
- Clinical Registry/ Data Analysis: Dr Tia Smith, Aged Care, Barwon Health: Evaluation of the utilisation and clinical outcomes of an afterhours emergency telehealth service to residential aged care facilities
- Clinical Trials: Allison Bone, ICU Research, Barwon Health: A pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial of bone anti-resorptive agents on bone turnover markers in critically ill women (accepted by A/Prof Neil Orford)
- Cohort/ Population Studies: Jacob Harland, IMPACT, Deakin University: Bone mineral density and trabecular bone score values in novel subgroups of adult-onset Diabetes
- Qualitative Research: Erin Parker, Social Work, Barwon Health & Maryam Esghaei: Healthcare gaps and barriers to service utilisation within Geelong refugee communities: a co-designed research and service improvement project.
- Translational Research: Dr Samantha Dawson, Food and Mood Centre, Deakin University: The Pregnancy Research and Translation Ecosystem: Improving the proportion of women meeting the dietary guidelines in pregnancy
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