Research Projects
Project Overview:
In the ever-evolving landscape of medical research, the pursuit of innovative solutions to combat cancer and autoimmune diseases...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
The deep learning revolution has generated much interest in its use in medicine. Deep learning belongs to a family of machine learning tools and...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Bone responds to loads, where increased loads leads to denser bones. Hence certain exercises are very important and have a positive effect on bones....
Supervisor: Dr Ayse Zengin
Ethnic differences exist in the pathogenesis, prevalence and complications of hypertension. There is a body of work on the high prevalence of low-...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jun Yang
Haemoglobin disorders, such as sickle cell disease and β-thalassaemia are the result of mutations in the adult β-globin gene. Patients suffering with...
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
Stroke is a leading cause of disability worldwide and results in significant economic and societal cost[1]. Returning to drive is an important aspect...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Epigenetics provides an interface between the environment and DNA function through the ability of epigenetic modifications to regulate gene...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Western
This project will develop and implement quality improvement interventions which are embedded in an implementation science trial. The trial aims to...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
This project will evaluate the quality improvement interventions that are embedded in an implementation science trial. The aim of the trial is to...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
This purpose of this project is to conduct a health economic analysis of an implementation science trial. The trial aims to reduce unnecessary...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
This project will develop a roadmap for national scale up and toolkits for implementing best practice for peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) use...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
In early 2020 Monash Health introduced a high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) assay for assessment of suspected myocardial infarction (MI...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
The impact of frailty on outcome in ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes is poorly understood. Frailty can be measured clinically or using imaging...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
People with multiple sclerosis (MS) are known to do less exercise and take more medications for disease and symptom management that are known to be...
Supervisor: Dr Ayse Zengin
Gallbladder disease is a major and growing burden in Australia, generating >70,000 hospital admissions each year. Acute calculous cholecystitis (...
Supervisor: Dr Geraldine Ooi
Our vision, partnering with Jimple (https://jimple.io/), is to develop individually tailored intervention for post-stroke aphasia to improve each...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is a serious, but common pregnancy complication, describing the infant that is born very small due to failure to...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Suzanne Miller
Every year, 13.4 million babies are born, and 900,000 will die, making it the leading cause of death in children <5 years of age globally. Half of...
Supervisor: Professor Graeme Polglase
This pre- and post-intervention CQI study will involve development of a multi-modal intervention to improve the management of ED patients with...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton