CCRG is the perfect platform to combine passions
From ensuring all the equipment is where it needs to be when it needs to be there, to collecting data and supervising post-mortem tests, our Research Nurses and Assistants are the backbone of CCRG, playing an important role in all preclinical research.
Our Research Nurses and Assistants come from all corners of the globe with vast levels of experience and diverse backgrounds that led to their career in medical research. Meet the team here and learn more about what it’s like behind the scenes of a busy research group.
Barbara Zangerl
Clinical Research Nurse (Austria)
Before joining CCRG, Research Nurse Barbara Zangerl was working as a Cardiac Nurse at Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital while holding Visiting Fellow position at The University of New South Wales, where she has worked as an Academic and Scientist for over a decade.
“I have just moved to Queensland from New South Wales, where I lived for the past 12 years,” explains Barbara. “Despite only moving within Australia during this time, the move to Queensland required almost as much adjustment as my intercontinental moves. So, being able to join CCRG has been a great help in settling into Brisbane.”
Barbara currently works as part of the CCRG’s ICU of the Future team, led by Project Manager Oystein Tronstad. The project aims to investigate and improve the ICU environment to holistically support recovery, ensuring patients thrive, not just survive.
“Being a Clinical Research Nurse not only feeds my insatiable desire to further health care but is an ideal position to draw on my experience and knowledge of medicine, science, and nursing.”
Barbara is also involved in a multicentre clinical trial investigating commonly implemented treatments for acute sepsis and will soon be managing a new trial exploring the potential benefits of ECMO to enable de-sedation, early extubation and mobilisation in patients with hypoxic respiratory failure.
With the recent arrival of her grandchildren, Barbara has swapped her martial arts, climbing and aerial acrobatics shoes for Grandma slippers when not at work.
“CCRG is the perfect platform for me to combine my two passions – medical research and clinical care – while being able to lend my expertise to ensure we can further our understanding of critical illness.”
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Learn more about unique ways to advance your research career with the Critical Care Research Group. From Estonia to Kenya, Italy to Japan, our Fellows come from all corners of the globe with enthusiasm, dedication, and integrity as we look at ways to advance clinical understanding of critical illness.
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