Our vision is to work with various governmental, health, university, and international partners to investigate ways to improve care delivery, especially for vulnerable popilation groups who present to the emergency department.
Since 2014, we have received grants from various funding sources including:
- the National Health and Medical Research Council
- Department of Social Services
- the Emergency Medicine Foundation
- Gold Coast Hospital Foundation
- Griffith University
- Healthcare Improvement Unit (Clinical Excellence Queensland).
Several Griffith University students have also engaged in research within our pillar.
Our aims
Our pillar aims to:
- undertake emergency care research important to clinicians, health service managers and policy makers
- build research capacity by providing opportunities for clinicians, students and academics to be involved in emergency care research
- promote the excellence, relevance and impact of our research
- sustain and strengthen our research network through local, state, national and international collaborations.
Our team
| Name | Job title/s |
|---|---|
| Prof Julia Crilly | Pillar Lead |
| Dr Jamie Ranse | Associate Professor |
| Ms Amy Sweeny | Research Development Manager |
| Ms Rachael Dunning | Nurse Unit Manager |
| Professor Gerben Keijzers | Staff Specialist, Pillar Lead |
| Ms Emma Hall | Research Nurse |
| Ms Josea Brown | Research Nurse |
| Dr Katya May | Research Nurse |
| Dr Nemat Alsaba | ED Staff Specialist |
| Dr Caitlin Brandenburg | Research Fellow |
| Ms Aoife Reynolds | Research Nurse |
| Dr Jayne Hewitt | Visiting Research Fellow |
| Dr Rachel Muir | Visiting Research Fellow |
| Dr Thomas Torpie | Researcher |
| Dr Dinesh Palipana | Researcher |
| Dr Ya-Ling (Rebecca) Huang | Visiting Research Fellow |
| Dr Richy Pellatt | Research Fellow |
| Ms Stephanie Hagan | Research Nurse |
| Ms Brittany Skelsey | Department Support Officer |
Our research themes
The current research themes within our pillar include to:
- understand, inform and evaluate service improvements for vulnerable populations such as paediatrics, older people, people with mental health problems, and people arriving to the Emergency Department by police
- evaluate out-of-hospital models of care that aim to improve emergency service delivery for vulnerable populations
- describe the impact on emergency department presentations from new, or changes made to, government policy.
Our partners
We have undertaken research with various governmental, health, university and international collaborators, such as:
- Abu Dhabi Health Service, UAE
- Bond University
- CSIRO
- Griffith University
- Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- The University of Melbourne
- The University of Queensland
- Uppsala University, Sweden
- Queensland Ambulance Service
- Queensland Police Service
We have also collaborated with various private and public health services within Queensland.
