Prizes and Awards 2024-specific

• Allied Health Research Award
• Austin LifeSciences Discovery Research Prize
• Austin Medical Research Foundation Young Investigator Award
• Austin Medical Research Foundation Distinguished Scientist Award
• Nursing Research Award
• Mercy Health and Austin Health Quality Improvement Award
• ONJCRI Scholarship
• Rob Pierce Memorial Award
• Consumer Partnership Award​

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2024 Prize winners

Congratulations to the winners of Austin LifeSciences Research Week 2024 prizes and awards.

Prize winners for 2024.

AMRF Distinguished Scientist Award
Professor Elif Ekinci
Honouring Professor Ekinci's contribution to the research community at Austin Health, in both clinical and basic research and her commitment to fostering young people into research and supervision of post-graduate degree students

Nurse-Led Research Award
Margaret Phillips
Austin Transition Clinic for complex sub-acute pain: opioid weaning and functional recovery​

Quality Improvement Award
Kate Schimmelbusch
Nurse led mobility following hip and knee arthroplasty can assist with next day discharge for Enhanced Recovery Program participants​

Allied Health Research Award
Elena Gerstman
Exploring the characteristics, outcomes and clinician perspectives of general medicine patients with complex allied health needs in the digital age – an observational cohort and cross-sectional survey

Rob Pierce Memorial Award
Charissa Zaga
Navigating tracheostomy decannulation: A decade of insights from the Global Tracheostomy Collaborative

Research Discovery Award
Natasha de Alwis
New generation antiplatelet drugs for prevention of preeclampsia: novel roles in mitigating maternal vasoconstriction in human models of disease

Austin Medical Research Foundation (AMRF) Young Investigator Award
Brooke Chapman
Reversing malnutrition and low muscle strength with targeted enteral feeding in patients awaiting liver transplant: A randomized controlled trial

Peoples Choice Poster Awards
Man Ting Chong, Werribee Mercy Hospital Multicultural Services Unit
Talk to Me! Transforming Care, One Language at a Time
Enhancing Communication for CALD Patients with the ‘Talk to Me’ App,

Peter Barnes, Michelle Kostidis, Julie Nguyen, Molly O’Donoghue
Local Diagnostic Reference Level assessment promotes optimal mammographic imaging

Kate Schimmelbusch, Karen Blakemore, Rebekah McGaw, Marisa Delahunt
Nurses can improve outcomes for patients and length of stay