Group-wide recognition for Metro North Health’s Awards Season
CCRG-led projects and researchers have been recognised across both The Prince Charles Hospital Staff Excellence Awards and Metro North Health Research Excellence Awards recently announced.
CCRG is headquartered at The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH), one of six hospitals that fall within the Queensland Government’s Metro North Health district. The district is the largest of the 16 Hospital and Health Services across the state and provides public health services to a population of close to one million people.
TPCH Staff Excellence Awards recognise excellence from right across the organisation and celebrate individuals and teams who make a significant contribution to the Hospital.
The Hospital’s ICU of the Future, developed and led by CCRG, and the Group’s Living Heart Project were both named as finalists in the Innovation category, recognised for driving ideas into action through innovative approaches. ICU of the Future was awarded Highly Commended, and The Living Heart Project came away with the win.
The Metro North Award for Excellence in Clinical Research recognises projects that develop new clinical knowledge or trial innovative approaches to preventing, diagnosing, or treating diseases. The Living Heart Project was awarded Highly Commended in this category this year.
CCRG Founder and Director, Professor John Fraser, was recognised with the annual TPCH Research Partnerships Award by in recognition of CCRG’s collaborative efforts that advance the boundaries of knowledge through innovative research partnerships within the community.
Pictured below: TPCH Director of Research A/Prof Michael Nissen, Prof John Fraser; and TPCH Director of Surgery and Metro North Board Member, Dr Robert Franz.
John was also named Metro North Researcher of the Year for his leadership of CCRG and for co-founding the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium, the world’s largest COVID-19 ICU database with >26,000 enrolled patients and membership across 64 countries.
The Common Good, an initiative of The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation, ran the annual “Hour of Power” three-minute thesis competition in conjunction with the Hospital’s Staff Excellence Awards. Congratulations to CCRG’s Keibun Lui who won People’s Choice and Laboratory Manager Margaret Passmore who received The Michael Ray Award for Best Basic Science/Translational Presentation.
The entire CCRG extends it’s thanks to event organisers and congratulations to all nominees and finalists. With such exceptional research happening right across the Metro North district and Australia in general, the future is very bright for the patients and families who access health services in the region. The impact of this research ripples well beyond the walls of our labs and hospitals in Queensland. In most cases, it spreads around the world.
“Hour of Power” Three-minute thesis competition
The Prince Charles Hospital’s “Hour of Power” returned with full force with a total of 33 abstracts and presentations entered by researchers, with 12 finalists selected to present during the live finals. Judges commented on the high quality of all presentations as well as the breadth and depth of the current research being performed at the hospital.
CCRG laboratory manager, Margaret Passmore, Winner, The Michael Ray Award for the Best Basic Science/Translational Presentation. (Pictured below, far left, receiving award from Lara Lowndes, Managing Director, Lowndes Holdings and The Common Good Board Director)
CCRG Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Keibun Liu, Winner, People’s Choice Award, (Pictured below, far right receiving his award)
Jim Crowhurst, Winner, The Richard Slaughter Award for the Best Clinical Presentation
Thomas Georgeson, Winner The Paul Zimmerman Award for the Best New Investigator
Metro North Research Excellence Awards
Research Support Award
Winner: Dr Mahesh Ramanan
Highly Commended: Professor Nicole Marsh
Rising Star
Winner: Associate Professor Teresa Brown
Highly Commended: Associate Professor Andrea Henden
Discovery and Innovation Research Award
Winner: Treatment of multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa by removal of ‘harmful’ antibodies
Highly Commended: Redcliffe Hospital Urology Team – Leading discovery and innovation to benefit patients with urologic cancers and conditions
Clinical Research Award
Winner: CAR-T cells: a new frontier in cancer care
Highly Commended: CCRG’s The Living Heart Project
Pictured below: Dr Louise See Hoe and Dr Nchafatso Obonyo accepted the award for Highly Commended, Clinical Research Excellence on behalf of the entire team behind The Living Heart Project.
Complex Health Challenges Research Award
Winner: Integrated Children’s Care Collaborative (ICCC)
Research Implementation Award
Winner: Lung cancer screening – Australia’s 4th national screening program
Highly Commended: Implementation Support Groups
Consumers in Research Award
Winner: Optimising consumer choice in telehealth: Metro North Telehealth Co-Design Project
Professor Joan Webster Nursing & Midwifery Research Award
Winner: Professor Nicole Marsh
Researcher of the Year
Winner: Professor John F Fraser
Chief Executive’s Award
Winner: Professor Owen Ung