Research Symposium
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.
Barwon Health Deakin University 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
To view all submitted posters, please take a virtual walk through the BH DU Research Poster exhibition at bhduresearch.com/2023-posters
Read on below for photos and presenters from the day
Session 1: Barwon Health Deakin University Research Prizes
Barwon Health Deakin University Best Paper of the Year Finalist presentations (Clinician researchers):
- Dr Olivia King: The Community, the Workplace, and Public Health Measures: A Qualitative Study of Factors that Impacted the Wellbeing of Rural Health Service Staff in Victoria, Australia, during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Dr Bridgette McNamara: Comprehensive Case-Control Study of Protective and Risk Factors for Buruli Ulcer, Southeastern Australia
- Dr Michael Muleme: Severity of COVID-19 among Residents in Aged Care Facilities in Victoria, Australia: A Retrospective Cohort Study Comparing the Delta and Omicron Epidemic Periods
- Dr Jessica O'Keeffe: Healthcare worker access to molnupiravir: A case series
Barwon Health Deakin University Best Paper of the Year Finalist Presentations (Scientists):
- Dr Moloud Abdar: Binarized multi-gate mixture of Bayesian experts for cardiac syndrome X diagnosis: A clinician-in-the-loop scenario with a belief-uncertainty fusion paradigm
- A/Prof Olivia Dean: Adjunctive minocycline for major depressive disorder: A sub-study exploring peripheral immune-inflammatory markers and associated treatment response.
- Prof Antonina Mikocka-Walus: Negative Impact of Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction on Health-Related Quality of Life: Results From the Rome Foundation Global Epidemiology Survey
- Dr Luba Sominsky: Pre-pregnancy obesity is associated with greater systemic inflammation and increased risk of antenatal depression
Exhibition of winning posters in the Barwon Health Deakin University Research Poster Awards
Session 2: Learning about our Service and listening to our Community
Introducing the Clinician Scientist Pathway: Ms Erica Grundell, Co-Director, Research, Barwon Health
Learning about our service and the community we serve
- Ms Chloe Love: High incidence of autism spectrum disorder in the Barwon region
- Dr Ellen Kelsey: Expanding urological services into regional Australia - how the nurse practitioner can help
- Mr Brendan Cutts: Regional Variations in the Incidence and Severity of Guillain Barre Syndrome in Australia
- Dr Tia Smith/ Dr Rosie Crane: Evaluation of an Afterhours Emergency Telehealth Service to Residential Aged Care Facilities
- Ms Genevieve Arblaster: Residential Aged Care best practice pressure injury intervention equipment
- Dr Thomas Neerhut: Gender Diversity within Australian surgery
- Dr Anton Sklavos: The association of travel distance and severity of odontogenic infections
Listening to our community
- Ms Kylie Casey: "We got there in the end.... somehow, we got there”
- Ms Ruth Morrison & Ms Jill Carter: Dying at Home: enablers and barriers. What helps people achieve their wish?
- Ms Isabella Natale: "It can save a life, that's all I know"
- Ms Erin Parker: Healthcare gaps and barriers to service utilisation within Geelong refugee communities
- Ms Susan Parker: Translating Community Voice into Health Promotion Action to reduce vaping by young people in the Barwon region
- Mr Alistair Bozkurt: Clinical Pharmacist Roles in Outpatient Clinics in Australian Public Hospitals
Session 3: Improving our Service and Innovating through Clinical Trials
Improving service to our community
- Dr Kym Anderson: New model of Paediatric Type-1 Diabetes Mellitus care
- Dr Amanda Wade: Evaluation of enhanced notification for hepatitis B and C
- Ms Megan Battersby: A multidisciplinary approach for the safe practice of charting specialised nutritional products
- Dr Sajal Kumar Saha: A novel model to optimise antimicrobial stewardship in Australian primary care
Innovating for our community through clinical trials
- Ms Krystle Wilson: Representation of Women in Cardiac Clinical Trials
- Ms Michelle Horton: Overcoming the Odds: Clinical Trials are thriving in Barwon Health's ICU
- Dr Beena Jeevan-Raj: Integration of clinical trial services with clinical care at Barwon Health.
- Ms Tracy Shields: Varenicline and nicotine replacement therapy for smokers admitted to hospitals: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial
Last Modified: Friday, 01 December 2023