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    • Allied and Community Health
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    • Emergency Medicine
    • Intensive Care
    • Medicine and Specialties
    • Paediatrics
    • Pharmacy
    • Professorial Academic Unit
    • Radiology
    • Surgery and Specialties
    • Women’s Health
  • Ethics & Governance
    • Office for Research
    • New Ethics Applications
    • New Governance Applications
    • Post Approval Submissions
    • Forms, Policies & Templates
    • Human Research Ethics Committee
  • Clinical Trials
    • Partner with Peninsula Health
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Professorial Academic Unit

The Professorial Academic Unit is comprised of researchers with complementary skill sets whose goal is to enable and conduct high quality, clinically relevant and translational research in line with the vision and research priorities of Peninsula Health. Their expertise spans clinical medicine, bioinformatics and imaging, health services research including data linkage, and biostatistics. The role of the Academic Unit is also to enable an active research and teaching partnership with Monash University, and to build strong relationships with key local, national and international collaborators.

Members of the Unit are an integral part of the National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA), a Commonwealth funded enterprise in collaboration with Monash University. They lead the development of the NCHA research data platform incorporating electronic health data and external data linkages, to facilitate large scale efficient research in clinical and population samples.

Active Research

  • Health Related to Ageing
  • Bioinformatics and Statistical Approaches
  • Healthy Ageing Data Platform

Publications

  • Age is no barrier: predictors of academic success in older learners
  • Brain Activation during Memory Encoding in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Discordant Twin Pair Study
  • Psychosocial volunteer support for older adults with cognitive impairment: Development of MyCare Ageing using a co-design approach via action research
  • Consumer experiences of home care packages
  • Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Cognitive Dysfunction – towards effective management of two high important high impact co-morbidities
  • Risk factors for the development of chest infections in acute stroke: A Systematic Review
  • The Promising Use of ‘Big Data’ to Increase the Efficiency and Comprehensiveness of Stroke Outcomes Research
  • Examination of risk scores to better predict hospital-related harms
  • Detecting brain injury related to hypertension at midlife – a key to interventions for preventing dementia in old age.
  • Vitamin D supplements for trunk muscle morphology in older adults: secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial

Staff

  • Professor Velandai Srikanth
    Professor of Medicine / Clinical Director Rehabilitation, Aged Care, Palliative and Pain Services velandai.srikanth@monash.edu
    View Monash Pure profile
  • Afton Nido
    Personal Assistant afton.nido@monash.edu

    Phone: (03) 9788 1722

  • Nadine Andrew
    Senior Research Fellow nadine.andrew@monash.edu
    View Monash Pure profile
  • Michele Callisaya
    Associate Professor michele.callisaya@monash.edu
    View Monash Pure profile
  • Richard Beare
    Associate Professor, Bioinformatics richard.beare@monash.edu
    View Monash Pure profile
  • Chris Moran
    Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Geriatrician chris.moran@monash.edu
    View Monash Pure profile
  • Taya Collyer
    Biostatistician taya.collyer@monash.edu
    View Monash Pure profile
  • David Ung
    Research Fellow david.ung@monash.edu
    View Monash Pure profile
  • Mark Michael
    Research Project Coordinator mark.michael@monash.edu
  • Emily Parker
    Project Coordinator - National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA) emily.parker@monash.edu
  • Elizabeth Le
    Research Assistant elizabeth.le@monash.edu
  • Rebecca Pang
    PhD Student rebecca.pang@monash.edu
  • Melinda Munroe
    Research Nurse mmunroe@phcn.vic.gov.au
  • Amanda Elston
    Research Assistant amanda.elston@monash.edu
  • Stephanie Than
    PhD Student stephanie.than@monash.edu
  • Rebecca Barnden
    Research Assistant rebecca.barnden@monash.edu
  • Margot Lodge
    PhD Student margot.lodge@monash.edu
  • Bridget O’Bree
    Clinical Research Nurse bridget.obreee@monash.edu
  • Tanya Ravipati
    Data Analyst - National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA) tanya.ravipati@monash.edu

Contact us

Director of Research
Professor Velandai Srikanth
velandai.srikanth@monash.edu
(03) 9788 1722

Manager, Office for Research
Lee-Anne Clavarino
lclavarino@phcn.vic.gov.au
(03) 9784 2679

Ethics and Governance
HREC@phcn.vic.vic.au

Research Governance
RGO@phcn.vic.gov.au
(03) 9784 2680

Office 2Q09, Ngarnga Centre
PO Box 52
Frankston Hospital
Frankston VIC, 3199

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