Research Projects
We are recruiting families to a MRFF funded study. Following clinical assessment families will be offered the opportunity to enrol in a randomised...
Supervisor: Professor Katrina Williams
Current fetal monitoring technologies, such as cardiotocography (CTG), are often inaccurate at detecting fetal distress. This results in either...
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Kidney transplantation offers superior quality of life and longevity as compared to dialysis. However, whilst short term outcomes are typically...
Supervisor: Dr David Metz
The intraoperative period is a data-rich environment that is currently poorly captured by didactic operation reports. Intra-operative events have...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kiarash Taghavi
The early life microbiome is highly dynamic in healthy full-term infants as well as in preterm infants. As such, the microbiome is extremely...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
Very preterm infants may suffer from chronic lung disease; this is defined as a need for continuing oxygen or respiratory support at 36 weeks'...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kenneth Tan
Cytokines have attracted substantial attention as diagnostic biomarkers for infectious and inflammatory diseases in recent years. However,...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
This project aims to develop integrative, data-driven frameworks to elucidate how genomic, environmental, and behavioural factors interact to shape...
Supervisor: Dr. Mohammed Alshawsh
Osteosarcoma is the most prevalent primary bone tumour, with a predominance in children and adolescents in periods of rapid growth. Despite...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jason Cain
Osteosarcoma is the most prevalent primary malignant tumour of the bone, mainly affecting teenagers and young adults, particularly during growth...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jason Cain
There are over 7,000 rare diseases that on average take ~4 years to diagnose, during which families consult on average 5 doctors and receive 3...
Supervisor: Professor Katrina Williams
There is a well defined difference between a novice and an expert in surgical training and simulation-based educational programmes and research....
Supervisor: Professor Ram Nataraja
Exposure to infection/inflammation during the perinatal period is one of the main causes of impaired neurodevelopment. To develop effective...
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Project combined with Prof Debra Nestel (Simulation Professor at Monash University).
The initial project will center on the translation of a...
Supervisor: Professor Ram Nataraja
The operating room theatre environment can be a potential confronting and difficult environment for novices including medical students and nursing...
Supervisor: Professor Ram Nataraja
The study aims to understand how preterm babies develop the ability to recognise and understand faces. Exposure to faces and facial expressions are...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Flora Wong
Early onset sepsis (EOS) is defined as that which occurs within the first 48 hours of life in newborn infants. EOS can be devastating; increasing...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kenneth Tan
Early onset sepsis (EOS) is defined as that which occurs within the first 48 hours of life in newborn infants. EOS can be devastating; increasing...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kenneth Tan
Study Overview:
This research focuses on children undergoing orchidopexy at two prominent hospitals in Victoria: Monash Children's Hospital and...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kiarash Taghavi
Stress and the ways that medical professional deal with it has received a renewed interest in recent times
With novel wearable technology the stress...
Supervisor: Professor Ram Nataraja