Grants Awarded

Total of grants awarded 

Title
Investigator
Year of grant
Grant name
Grant amount ($AUD)
Comparison of pressure points versus tourniquet application for first aid control of arterial bleeding in beachgoers: a randomised controlled cross over trial
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 54,305
SPASMS: Study of Paediatric Appendicitis Scores and Management Strategies
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 99,442
Suspected Pulmonary Embolism Exclusion with D-dimers in Emergency Departments (SPEED-ED)
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 169,095
Minimal interventions for management of kids' distal forearm fractures
‘iIMPROVE PSP’ implementation science study to improve outcomes in primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP)
  • National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
  • 4,700,000
Evidence-based Antimicrobial Stewardship: Sustainable Implementation in Primary Care – The EASSI-PC Trial
  • MRFF
  • 3,994,668
Confronting the escalating challenge of hospital admissions linked to paediatric respiratory disease in remote Queensland settings.
  • Queensland Health Clinical Research Fellowship
  • 250,000
Drug Overdose with Reduced Consciousness: Patient and Staff Perspectives. A Mixed Methods Study
Research Capacity Building Grant - Gold Coast Health
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 99,076
A randomised controlled trial of plasmalyte versus normal saline as resuscitation and maintenance fluid therapy for patients presenting with diabetic ketoacidosis (BEST-DKA) BalancEd fluids vs Saline Trial in Diabetic KetoAcidosis
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • MRFF
  • 164,384
  • 1,655,323
The feasibility of point-of-care ultrasound conducted by physiotherapists for the diagnosis of ankle syndesmosis injuries in the acute care setting: A diagnostic study and budget impact analysis study
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 49,942
Improved Respiratory Support in Remote Settings for Children: A Paediatric Acute Respiratory Intervention Study (PARIS), PARIS on Country.
Donna Franklin
  • 2024
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 272,283
Vasopressor Infusion via Peripheral vs Central Access in emergency department patients with shock – The VIPCA RCT
  • 2022
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 38,766
Composition, Quality and Delivery of Major Haemorrhage Protocols (MHP) and critical bleeding clinical practice guidelines in hospitals across Queensland Health
Dr Jessica Forbes
  • 2022
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 95,507
Exploring Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in the Emergency Department (CALD ED) study: Phase 1 Quantitative study
  • 2021
  • Gold Coast Health Collaborative Research Grant Scheme
  • 43,310
ARISE FLUIDS Australasian Resuscitation In Sepsis Evaluation: FLUid or vasopressors In emergency Department Sepsis
  • 2021
  • The Australian government’s Medical Research Future Fund Rare Cancers, Rare Disease and Unmet Need grant scheme (APP1200084).
Buddy-up: research reach, adoption, and implementation
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation Grants
  • 11,470
Cellulitis in the emergency department
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation Grants
  • 39,792
Extent of self-harm behaviour presenting to Queensland ED with mental health problems
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation Grants
  • 37,816
Enhancing clinician research: A mixed methods study examining Australian and New Zealand specialist trainees’ experiences and research outputs
  • 2020
  • 2020 Collaborative Research Grant Scheme
  • 99,052
EAsIEr study: Evaluating the use of clinical decision Aids In the Emergency Department
  • 2020 Collaborative Research Grant Scheme
  • 29,240
Objective Pre-oxygenation in paediatric EmeRgency Airway management (the OPERA study)
A/Professor Shane George
  • 2020
  • 2020 Collaborative Research Grant Scheme
  • 99,262
End-of-life deciSionS in the EmergeNcy department and Intensive cAre: where is the Law? (the ESSENTIAL project)
Dr Nemat Alsaba
  • 2020
  • 2020 Collaborative Research Grant Scheme
  • 93,140
Enhancing Clinician Research: A Mixed Methods Study Examining Australian and New Zealand Specialist Trainees’ Experiences and Research Outputs
Paulie Stehlik
  • 2020
  • Collaborative Research Grant Scheme 2020
  • 99,052
Improved Early Respiratory Support of Infants and Children
  • 2020
  • 2020
  • 2021
  • National Health and Medical Research Council - Emerging Leadership
  • Lions Dunning-Orlich NHMRC Emerging Leadership Investigator Award (2021) Travel Grant
  • HIIRO Early Careers Researcher Fellowship
  • 645,000
  • 3,000
  • 300,000
Queensland Health’s Artificial Intelligence Hub Datathon
Amy Sweeny, Dr Katya May, Dr Nimai Etheridge
  • 2020
  • Queensland Health’s Artificial Intelligence Hub Datathon winners, 2020:
  • 25,000
Host Gene Expression Signatures to Diagnose Sepsis in Children
Dr Shane George
  • 2020
  • MRFF - Genomics Health Futures Mission
  • 2,406,970
Australasian Resuscitation In Sepsis Evaluation: Fluid or Vasopressors in Emergency Department Sepsis (ARISE:Fluids) Trial.
Prof Gerben Keijzers
  • 2020
  • The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)
  • 2,335,540
Watch-house detainee emergency healthcare
  • 2020
  • Watch-house detainee emergency healthcare
  • 92,098
SARS-CoV2 infection and immunity in frontline hospital staff during the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr Megan King
  • 2020
  • 2020
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • SERTA Small Research Project Grant
  • 52,493
  • 10,000
The COVERED COVID study: Comprehensive Outcomes that VERify the impact on EDs from COVID-19
Prof Julia Crilly
  • 2020
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 65,504
Nasal High Flow Therapy Treatment for Children with Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure - a PARIS trial (PARIS 2)
Dr Shane George
  • 2017
  • 2020
  • NHMRC
  • NHMRC
  • 2,600,000
  • 645,000
Medical and nursing staff experiences of working during COVID-19: An Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit study to inform preparedness and response
Dr Jamie Ranse, Mercedes Carrington
  • 2020
  • SERTA Small Research Project Grant
  • 10,000
Impact of mass gathering events on emergency healthcare services: informing health service planning for safer communities (DECRA)
Jamie Ranse
  • 2020
  • Impact of mass gathering events on emergency healthcare services: informing health service planning for safer communities (DECRA)
  • 422,241
BUCKLED RCT: Bedside ultrasound conducted in kids with distal upper limb fractures in the emergency department (randomised controlled trial)
  • 2020
  • 2021
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • HIIRO Early Careers Researcher Fellowship
  • 159,458
  • 144,174
The DART3 project (Difficult Access Requires Thought, Training and Technology)
  • 2020
  • NHMRC Partnership Projects Grant
  • 3,500,000
Clinician decision making in peripheral intravenous cannulation in emergency settings
Hugo Evison
  • 2019
  • JumpStart: Funded by Emergency Medicne Foundation
  • 34,794
POKIE: Prospective Observational study of the cannulation of Kids in the Emergency.
Dr Lucy Dunstan & Dr Peter J Snelling
  • 2019
  • 2019
  • POKIE: Funded by SERTA
  • POKIE: Funded by Emergency Medicne Foundation
  • 10,000
  • 27,128
Understanding end-of-life care for older people presenting to the ED
Nemat Alsaba
  • 2019
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 88,357
Nasal High Flow Therapy for Infants with Bronchiolitis – Translating new knowledge into practice
Dr Shane George
  • 2017
  • CHF AusHSI Implementation Grant
  • 80,000
Using bedside ultrasound to diagnose forearm fractures in children
Peter Snelling
  • 2019
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 159,458
Can children be sedated effectively with only one needle?
Dr Megan King
  • 2019
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 60,056
Headache snapshot II: What is the epidemiology, management and outcome for adult patients presenting to the ED with a headache?
Prof Anne-Maree Kelly
  • 2019
  • Headache snapshot II: What is the epidemiology, management and outcome for adult patients presenting to the ED with a headache?
Can assessment of parental concern improve sepsis recognition in children?
Amanda Harley
  • 2019
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 39,685
Is prednisolone an effective treatment for Bell’s Palsy in children?
Dr Shane George
  • 2019
  • 2019
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • NHMRC
  • 68,179
  • 1,158,777
Predicting severe complications of pneumonia in Children (PERN Pneumonia)
Dr Shane George
  • 2019
  • Predicting severe complications of pneumonia in Children (PERN Pneumonia)
Early Resuscitation in Paediatric Sepsis: A pilot study
Dr Christa Bell
  • 2018
  • Gold Coast Health and Gold Coast Hospital Foundation Research Grants Scheme
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 99,860
  • 96,018
Fluid Resuscitation in Emergency patients with Sepsis and Hypotension (ARISE Fluids)
Prof Gerben Keijzers
  • 2018
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • Gold Coast Health and Gold Coast Hospital Foundation Research Grants Scheme
  • 96,018
  • 93,882
Impact of 2018 Commonwealth Games on Gold Coast Emergency Departments
Prof Julia Crilly
  • 2018
  • Gold Coast Health and Gold Coast Hospital Foundation Research Grants Scheme
  • 52,878
Fibrinogen Early In Severe Trauma studY II (FEISTY II)
Dr Don Campbell
  • 2018
  • Fibrinogen Early In Severe Trauma studY II (FEISTY II)
  • 100,000
Rapid diagnosis of sepsis in acutely ill children – the RAPIDS study
Dr Shane George
  • 2018
  • 2018
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • Gold Coast Health Collabortive Research Scheme
  • 100,000
  • 100,000
Relational coordination in trauma care
Prof Victoria Brazil
Fibrinogen Early in Children with Severe Traumatic Haemorrhage - FEISTY Junior
Dr Shane George
  • 2018
  • 2018
  • 2018
  • 2018
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre
  • GC Private Practice Trust Fund
  • GC Intensive Care Research Trust
  • 100,000
  • 70,000
  • 25,000
Valuing patients’ experience in the emergency department
  • 2018
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation Leading Edge Grant
  • 75,757
Intubation Practices for Children in Emergency Departments and Intensive Care Units across Australia and New Zealand: A Survey of Medical Staff
Dr Shane George
  • 2017
  • Intubation Practices for Children in Emergency Departments and Intensive Care Units across Australia and New Zealand: A Survey of Medical Staff
Reducing avoidable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease emergency presentations
Dr Alex King
  • 2017
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 67,000
Domestic and family violence screening in the emergency department: Who’s doing it? How are they doing it? How often?
Dr Thomas Torpie
  • 2017
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 65,639
Deliberate Clinical Inertia
Prof Gerben Keijzers
Antibiotic Prescribing in Emergency project
Dr Kerina Denny
  • 2017
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • Kerina Denny is also the recipient of the junior doctor research fellowship
  • 24,131
  • 250,000
How are we managing severe childhood asthma in Australasia?
Dr Shane George
  • 2017
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 64,663
Improving the safety of paediatric airway management (Kids THRIVE)
Dr Shane George
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • National Health and Medical Research Council
  • Thrasher Research Fund
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 1,600,099
  • 368,290
  • 282,290
Preventing chronic pain after whiplash injury
Professor Gerben Keijzers
  • 2017
  • Emergency Medicine Research Foundation
  • 83,639
Improving outcomes for people with acute mental illness in the emergency department: a data linkage study
  • 2017
  • National Health and Medical Research Council
  • 251,470
An observational study of cannulation practices in the Emergency department at Gold Coast University Hospital, and the effect of ultrasound-guided cannulation
Dr Amy Archer-Jones
  • 2016
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 22,541
Effect of Buddy Taping vs Plaster in Boxer’s Fractures – The Buddy Study
Dr Richard Pellatt
  • 2016
  • 2016
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 17,425
  • 83,639
Emergency Department physicians' attitudes and opinions on the role of medication to prevent the development of chronic whiplash: a pilot emergency department survey
Prof Gerben Keijzers.
  • 2016
  • 2016
  • Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 60,000
  • 83,639
Status Epilepticus Australasian Registry for Children (SEARCh)
Dr Shane George
  • 2016
Translating knowledge into practice for the management of Bronchiolitis
Dr Shane George
  • 2016
  • Translating knowledge into practice for the management of Bronchiolitis
APHIRST- Gap Australian Paediatric Head Injury Rules Study: Assessing the gap prior to implementation
Dr Shane George
  • 2016
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 69,948
Evaluating the impact of alcohol on emergency department presentations
Prof Julia Crilly
  • 2016
  • Healthcare Improvement Unit
  • 359,758
Shortness of Breath in the ED: The Asia, Australia and New Zealand Dyspnoea in Emergency Departments (AANZDEM) study
Prof Ann-Maree Kelly
  • 2015
  • 2015
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University
  • 96,000
  • 60,000
REstricted Fluid REsuscitation in Sepsis-related Hypotension (REFRESH): Comparing a ‘restricted volume’ and ‘standard volume’ approaches to fluid resuscitation in patients with sepsis
Dr Stephen Mcdonald
  • 2015
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 54,125
Delivering care in the watch house: an outcomes evaluation
Prof Julia Crilly
  • 2015
  • Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation
  • 116,772
Morale, stress and coping strategies of staff working in the emergency department
Prof Julia Crilly
  • 2014
  • Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation
  • 29,141
Evaluation of emergency nurses in the watch house
Prof Julia Crilly
  • 2014
  • 2014
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • Gold Coast Health and Gold Coast Hospital Foundation Research Grants Scheme
  • 116,772
  • 9,300
Evaluating the structures and processes of a Watch House Emergency Nurse (WHEN) model of care
  • 2014
  • Gold Coast Hospital Foundation
  • 9,300
A randomised controlled trial of interventional versus conservative treatment of primary spontaneous pneumothorax: How does conservative and interventional management of collapsed lung compare?
Prof Gerben Keijzers.
  • 2013
  • 2013
  • National Health and Medical Research Council
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 401,153
  • 50,086
Headache snapshot: Examining the diagnostic approaches for patients presenting to the Emergency Department with a headache
Dr Kevin Chu
  • 2013
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 268,600
Distal Ureteric Stones and Tamsulosin
Dr Jeremy Furyk
  • 2013
  • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • 278,000
Last updated 30 Jul 2020