Cabrini InstituteAnnual Report 2013-14

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ABOUT THE COVER

Matthew Johnson joined Cabrini as Manager of the Stewardson Charitable Trusts Simulation Centre. Since opening,

more than 300 simulation training activities have taken place involving more than 700 students and staff.

About the Cabrini Institute

Established in 1996, the Cabrini Institute supports a wide

range of research and education activities across Cabrini,

as well as health promotion activities on behalf of the

organisation. Senior medical staff and researchers oversee

a diverse research program, as well as developments

in clinical education. The research program includes

arthritis, back pain, cancer, care of the elderly, health

literacy, medicine, nursing, patient safety and surgery.

The Cabrini Institute has a significant role in the education

of our young health professionals.

3TABLE OF CONTENTS

6 Year in review

8 Monash Department of Clinical

Epidemiology at Cabrini Hospital

12 Cabrini Monash University Department of Medical

Oncology The Szalmuk Family Department

of Medical Oncology

16 Cabrini Monash University Department of Medicine

20 Cabrini Centre for Nursing Education and Research

22 Cabrini Monash University Department of Surgery

The Fröhlich West Chair of Surgery

24 Clinical education at Cabrini

28 Cabrini Monash Psycho-Oncology

30 Allied Health Research Unit

32 Health promotion

38 Department staff

44 Supporting ethical research

54 Publications

64 Governance – Cabrini Institute Council

69 Supporters

Education. Research. Health promotion.

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Facts and highlights

1996 03GOVERNEDby Cabrini Institute Council03 05university

partnershipsacademic departments

CHAIREDby Professor Lawrence St Leger47 79medical oncology

clinical trialspresentations delivered

12-MEMBERCabrini Institute Council

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projects reviewed by Cabrini Human Research Ethics Committee

journal publications

main areas of focus: education, health promotion, research

Cabrini Institute established

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07editorials, columns, letters to the editor

6 The Cabrini Institute supports research, clinical

education and health promotion, in order to provide

an evidence base to improve patient care and the health

of our patients and the community.

The past year has seen the development of a wonderful,

new, permanent home for the Cabrini Institute, as well

as major changes in education, nursing research and

leadership of the Cabrini Institute Council.

The Cabrini Institute Annual Report 2013-14 highlights

the scope of education, research and health promotion

across our health service. In this report, we list all

projects approved by the Cabrini Human Research Ethics

Committee and all publications by our researchers.

The Patricia Peck Education and Research Precinct

The new home for the Cabrini Institute was opened on

12 November 2013 by the then-Mayor of Stonnington

Councillor Matthew Koce and was blessed by the

Year in review

Reverend Monsignor Anthony Ireland, Episcopal Vicar for

Health and Aged Care.

The $7.5m, four-storey building – which houses a high-

tech simulation centre, an e-library and multiple teaching

areas to support modern clinical education – was possible

due to funding made available by Health Workforce

Australia (HWA), an initiative of the Council of Australian

Governments. The functions of HWA were taken over by

the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing

from July 2014.

The building is named in honour of Mrs Patricia Peck, a

major donor to the Cabrini Institute. Other major donor

supporters for the precinct are Lee and Brian Johnston in

support of the library and the Trustees of the Stewardson

Trusts who supported the simulation centre.

The Patricia Peck Education and Research Precinct

is Cabrini’s permanent base for students and clinical

researchers. In its first full year, it is anticipated that 500

students will participate in clinical education there and

more than 600 clinicians will be involved in education,

training and research.

Developments in nursing education and research

In early 2014, the Cabrini Institute Council and the

Cabrini Board of Directors approved the establishment

of the Cabrini Nursing Education and Research Centre.

This followed a review that was informed by analysis of

our nursing workforce recruitment and needs in the

area of skill development, as well as by meetings with

our university partners. Associate Professor Lee Boyd

is leading the new Cabrini Nursing Education and

Research Centre. At this stage, the Centre will not have

a single university partner for nursing research,

although we continue to conduct research projects

with university partners.

From left: Professor Lawrence St Leger, Chair, Cabrini Institute Council. Dr Peter Lowthian, Executive Director, Cabrini Institute and Clinical Governance

7Expanding clinical education

Cabrini remains committed to the education of our future

healthcare workforce. Our relationships with Health

Workforce Australia (HWA) and our university partners

continue to support the expansion of clinical places in our

health service. The Commonwealth Specialist Training

Program continues to support specialist training for

postgraduate doctors.

Our nursing education program continues to grow.

As well as undergraduate students from Deakin and

Australian Catholic universities, in 2014 we had student

nursing placements from Monash University for the first

time. The graduate year nurses’ program continues, and

support is provided for postgraduate training courses.

The Cabrini Institute’s department of education is

currently undertaking a review of nursing education, the

outcome of which will inform future developments.

Cabrini’s allied health services continue to grow. In 2014,

we developed new partnerships in allied health with

Holmesglen Institute and La Trobe University.

During 2014, the number of Monash University

undergraduate medical students in clinical placements

increased slightly, with students from each of the three

clinical years.

Cabrini Institute leadership and governance

The Cabrini Institute Council oversees the governance

and work of the Cabrini Institute, as well as research

across Cabrini. Professors Robert Thomas and Gerald

Farrell retired from the Council during the year.

We acknowledge their contributions to the Institute.

Council Chair Professor Lawrence St Leger retired in

May after seven years in the role. The Cabrini Institute

and Cabrini have appreciated his leadership and advice.

Professor Peter Fuller took over as Chair in May 2014.

We would be unable to carry out our work without

our committed research and administrative staff,

the doctors and the nurses who support the clinical

education programs and the work of the Cabrini Human

Research Ethics Committee, as well as the support and

encouragement of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred

Heart of Jesus and Cabrini’s Board of Directors.

Once again we express our thanks and appreciation to all

of them, as well as to our wonderful donors and sponsors

for their continued support.

Dr Peter Lowthian

Executive Director, Cabrini Institute

Professor Lawrence St Leger

Chair, Cabrini Institute Council

In its first full year, it is anticipated that 500 students will participate in clinical education there and more than 600 clinicians will be involved in education, training and research.

8 The Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology at

Cabrini Hospital focuses on performing high quality,

clinical research with an emphasis on answering clinically

important questions that can be translated into better

quality patient care and outcomes.

During the past 12 months, two visiting professors spent

time in our department as part of their sabbaticals.

Professor Francis Guillemin (France) Professor Francis Guillemin, a rheumatologist and

epidemiologist, is an expert in the cross-cultural

adaptation of questionnaires and he has developed

the OAKHQOL questionnaire. This is a French tool that

assesses disease-specific quality of life in people who

have osteoarthritis of the knee and hip. During Professor

Guillemin’s sabbatical, we finalised collaboration in

the APPROVALS project. This will determine which of

four Australian versions of the instrument is preferred

in an Australian cohort of people who have knee and

hip osteoarthritis. We adapted the evaluative linguistic

framework (ELF), a tool for assessing the quality of written

patient information, into the ELF-Q for assessing the

quality of patient questionnaires. Professors Guillemin

and Buchbinder presented this work at a workshop at the

Outcomes Measures in Clinical Trials in Rheumatology

(OMERACT) meeting in Budapest held in May 2014.

Professor Clermont Dionne (Canada)

Professor Clermont Dionne is a musculoskeletal

epidemiologist who led an international consensus

project to develop a standard definition of low (lower)

back pain for use in epidemiologic studies, which has

been adopted internationally. During Professor Dionne’s

sabbatical, he provided invaluable input into a similar

international consensus project. In this project, we are

seeking to develop a standard reporting checklist for

use in trials of exercise. This will allow replication of the

intervention in further research and/or clinical practice.

Dr Susan Slade, a new postdoctoral researcher in our

department, is leading this work funded by an Arthritis

Australia grant. Dr Slade, a physiotherapist, is also

completing a systematic review of qualitative studies

investigating why general practitioners do not follow

guidelines for the management of low back pain.

Systematic reviews, trials and results

During 2013-14, a series of Cochrane systematic reviews

were completed. They have synthesised the evidence for

effectiveness and safety of interventions commonly used

to treat acute and chronic gout including allopurinol,

colchicine, NSAIDs and diet. These reviews informed

multinational and national recommendations for the

diagnosis and management of gout.

We are continuing to recruit participants to an NHMRC-

funded, randomised, controlled trial designed to compare

the effect of autologous platelet-rich plasma injection

to glucocorticoid injection and placebo for lateral

epicondylitis (tennis elbow). This trial began in 2013. The

Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Cabrini Hospital

Above: Professor Rachelle Buchbinder

9results will inform clinical practice and policy, particularly

as public funding for all autologous blood injections will

cease from the end of 2014. An additional recruitment

site has been set up in Sydney and Dr Allison Bourne is

coordinating this project.

The two-year clinical outcomes from an NHMRC-

funded trial of vertebroplasty for osteoporotic vertebral

fractures were published in the Journal of Bone and

Mineral Research. The results were in keeping with the

six-month trial results, which found that there were no

between-group differences in outcome compared with

a sham procedure. Feline Kroon, a medical student from

Maastricht University in The Netherlands, wrote up these

results during a visiting internship in our department and

Dr Margaret Staples performed the analysis. During their

internship she and Lennart van der Berg (another visiting

medical student from Maastricht University) completed

their Cochrane review of self-management education

programs for osteoarthritis. This review was published

• OPtimising Health LIterAcy (OPHELIA) Project

• Understanding the burden of back pain – the BP-Quest

• A standardised method for reporting exercise

programs in clinical trials

• The long-term outcomes of people with inflammatory

arthritis in Australia (ARAD)

Research outcomes

An NHMRC-funded, randomised, controlled trial involving

102 participants was completed, in which researchers

investigated the effects of physical therapy in people who

have osteoarthritis of the hip. The results were reported

in the Journal of the American Medical Association in

June 2014. The trial, led by Professor Kim Bennell at the

University of Melbourne and supported by Professor

Buchbinder, found that physical therapy did not result in

greater improvement in pain or function compared with

sham treatment.

and received wide national and international attention,

as it questions the utility of these programs. Based upon

29 trials, we concluded that self-management education

programs, as studied in these trials, are unlikely to provide

any important clinical benefits.

Shehzaad Peerbux (a BBioMed Sci student from Monash

University) is investigating the health literacy profile of

recent inpatients at Cabrini Malvern under the supervision

of Dr Allison Bourne. Approximately 1000 responses have

been received. When completed, the results will provide

Cabrini with important information about patients’ needs.

It may identify interventions that could be implemented

within Cabrini, which could improve health literacy.

Major projects

• Is autologous platelet-rich plasma injection effective

for tennis elbow?

• Understanding the health literacy of patients attending

Cabrini Health

From left: Professor Rachelle Buchbinder is a practising rheumatologist, active in research and head of the head of the Monash Department

of Clinical Epidemiology at Cabrini Hospital. A model of a skeleton is helpful in discussions with students and patients.

10Grants

NHMRC Project Grant (2010-14)

Project title: A randomised, controlled trial to evaluate

the efficacy of bisphosphonate therapy in patients with

osteonecrosis of the hip

Applicants: Sambrook P, Little D, March L, Buchbinder R.

NHMRC Project Grant 1049823 (2013-15)

Project title: Comparative effectiveness of ultrasound-

guided injection with either autologous platelet rich

plasma or glucocorticoid for ultrasound-proven lateral

epicondylitis: a three-arm, randomised placebo-

controlled trial

Applicants: Buchbinder R, Harris A, Staples M.

ARC Linkage Project Grant 120200111 (2013-15)

Project title: Enhancing health literacy to optimise health

equality across Victorian communities

Applicants: Osborne R, Buchbinder R, Beauchamp A.

Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and

Development (2013-15)

Project title: A patient and professional based multimedia

campaign as innovative implementation strategy to

improve low back pain guideline adherence: A cost-

effectiveness evaluation

Applicants: Anema JA, Dr. C.R.L. Boot CRL, Braspenning J,

Buchbinder R, Elders P, Schaafsma FG, van Tulder MW, van

der Wouden JC.

NHMRC Cochrane Funding (2013-15)

Project title: Cochrane Musculoskeletal Review Group

(CMSG), Australian satellite

Applicants: Buchbinder R, Johnston R.

Cabrini Institute (2013-14)

Project title: Understanding the health literacy of patients

attending Cabrini Health

Applicant: Buchbinder R.

Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Cabrini Hospital

NHMRC Project Grant 1062638 (2014-18)

Project title: A multicentre, double blind, randomised,

placebo-controlled trial of oral anticoagulation

in systemic sclerosis-related pulmonary arterial

hypertension

Applicants: Nikpour M, Buchbinder R, Prior D, Nandurkar

H, Williams T, Gabbay E, Proudman S, Nash P. Zochling J,

Stevens W.

Arthritis Australia Grant In Aid (2014)

Project title: Standardised method for reporting

exercise programs

Applicants: Slade S, Buchbinder R, Underwood M.

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R ecruiting for research trials, coordinating

information for ethics submissions, liaising with

laboratories . . . it’s all in a day’s work for Cabrini’s Mary

Lane. As one of six Study Coordinators at the Cabrini

Institute – and the only one with specific training in

oncology – Mary plays a critical role in advancing Cabrini’s

cancer research. “My role is very varied. There’s a lot of

patient contact,” says Mary. “At the moment, we have

22 clinical trials. I’ve just put 32 patients on a study and I’m

currently recruiting for another three.

“I help to answer questions patients might have before

they make a decision to participate. Once the consent

form is signed, I’ll organise scans and other procedures,

and coordinate all their visits. Often I can administer

or check their drugs. I’ll even take their bloods – I’m a

qualified haematology nurse and I like to keep my hand in.

“You develop relationships with patients as they are

going through their personal experience of cancer

and their treatment journey,” says Mary. “Having good

communication is important. Being there to support the

patient is a big part of what I do.” Six years into the role,

Mary still relishes the work.

“Research has always been an interest of mine. I still have

patient contact, but also get the opportunity to see how

new drugs perform on specific tumour streams. I’ve

seen treatment become more targeted, which reduces

patients’ exposure to drugs. Everyone’s a winner when

treatment can be more individualised and targeted.”

Mary LaneADVANCING CABRINI’S CANCER RESEARCH

12 This department established in 2003 aims to provide

compassionate, state-of-the-art care for cancer

patients and continued advancements in the prevention,

diagnosis, treatment and cure of cancer via a combination

of research, education and clinical practice.

Research agenda

After several years of expansion, the department’s

research agenda has stabilised with consolidation of a

number of programs initiated over the previous 12 months

including Brightways: A Cabrini Breast Cancer Service and

the Cabrini Cancer Research Group. The Cabrini Cancer

Research Group consists of a group of individuals within

Cabrini who represent various disciplines. It has led to the

initiation of one study in breast cancer rehabilitation and a

number of projects currently in development.

Studies with new cancer agents continue to dominate

our research program. In particular, the department has

developed specific expertise in clinical trials involving

targeted therapies. These are drugs or other substances

that block the growth and spread of cancer by interfering

with specific molecules (molecular targets) that are

involved in the growth, progression and spread of cancer.

Targeted therapies differ from standard chemotherapy

in that they act on specific molecular targets that

are associated with cancer, whereas most standard

chemotherapies act on all rapidly dividing normal and

cancerous cells. Targeted therapies are currently the

focus of much anti-cancer drug development. These

therapies are a cornerstone of precision medicine, a form

of medicine that uses information about a person’s genes

and proteins to prevent, diagnose and treat disease.

Current studies

Current drug trials

There is a wide spectrum of specific disease trials

currently being undertaken. These are mainly phase 2

and 3 drug trial studies.

Disease Current trials (patient

recruitment phase)

Non-recruiting trials (patients still followed)

Breast cancer 2 8

Colorectal cancer 3 3

Kidney cancer 0 1

Lung cancer 0 0

Lymphoma 3 3

Multiple myeloma 2 3

Melanoma 0 2

Myelodysplastic syndrome 1 2

Ovarian cancer 0 2

Pancreatic cancer 2 1

Prostate cancer 1 5

Sarcoma 0 1

General 1 1

Total 15 32

Cabrini Monash University Department of Medical OncologyThe Szalmuk Family Department of Medical Oncology

Above: Associate Professor Gary Richardson

13Cancer of unknown primary study

As previously reported in the Cabrini Institute Annual

Report 2012-13, a diagnosis of carcinoma of unknown

primary (CUP) is made when a patient presents with

metastatic disease for which no primary cancer can be

identified despite extensive clinical assessment, medical

imaging and pathological evaluation. Currently, there

is virtually no evidence to guide diagnostic treatment

or supportive care practices for patients who have CUP.

A detailed understanding of the molecular biology,

as well as the clinical, quality of life and psychosocial

characteristics of this heterogeneous group of patients,

is essential to underpin future clinical trials. This is a

national collaborative cohort study of CUP by a team of

leading laboratory, clinical, and behavioural researchers,

as well as consumer advocates. The focus of this protocol

is on ascertaining a cohort of CUP patients and collecting

their relevant clinical, biological and psychosocial data,

in order to:

1. Describe the clinical, quality of life, and psychosocial

characteristics of the CUP cohort

2. Establish a biobank/databank resource of information

on this cohort of CUP patients with biospecimens,

and associated clinical, quality of life, and

psychosocial data.

A development in this area is SUPER: an independent,

investigator-initiated study conducted through the

national collaboration of leading investigators dedicated

to advancing the understanding and treatment of CUP

patients. The study, which includes the establishment of

a biobank/databank resource, will be coordinated by the

project staff based at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

in Melbourne, Victoria. Patients will be recruited from

CUP oncology clinic at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,

oncology clinics at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Flinders

Medical Centre, Westmead Hospital and Cabrini.

Brightways Breast Cancer Database

International and national evidence has identified

multidisciplinary care as key to the provision of best-

practice treatment and care for cancer patients. This

involves a team approach to treatment planning as well

as to care provision throughout the complete patient

pathway. In response to research and identified patient

needs, Cabrini developed Brightways: A Cabrini Breast

Cancer Service.

From left: Cabrini Breast Cancer Coordinator Vicki Durston has spearheaded a clinical trial to confirm the effectiveness of scalp cooling technology in reducing hair loss among

early breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Associate Professor Gary Richardson attended the inaugural 2012 Brightways luncheon. Cabrini is one of five healthcare

services recruiting patients for a study designed to better understand and treat cancer among patients whose primary cancer is unidentified.

14As previously reported in the Cabrini Institute Annual

Report 2012-13, the aim of the Brightways breast cancer

database is to enable information to be collected on all

patients who have breast cancer. The database allows

analysis of outcome measures for all areas of treatment.

Also, we are able to develop research projects around

the database. All patients diagnosed with breast cancer

at Cabrini are now captured at initial diagnosis. The

following data is captured: patient characteristics, tumour

staging and histology characteristics, type of treatment

administered, toxicity of treatment, disease recurrence

and survival.

Cancer 2015 project

Cabrini continues to participate in a major project: Cancer

2015. It is sponsored by the Victorian Cancer Agency.

Phase 2 of the project involves recruitment of a further

4000 cancer patients at diagnosis over the course of the

next two years, using the infrastructure and methods

developed in phase 1 of the study. We propose to

follow these patients through the course of their illness,

collecting a comprehensive set of biological samples

and clinical and health economic data. The patients will

be collected from 14 sites, spanning a broad range of

metropolitan, rural, public and private institutions.

Cancer genetic studies

The Family Cancer Clinic at Cabrini continues to provide

counselling and information for families who have a

history of cancer. It addresses inheriting cancer, individual

risk, screening and strategies to reduce risk of cancer. The

clinic provides genetic testing where appropriate. Cabrini

is continuing to recruit patients to two studies being

conducted by Dr Yoland Antill:

1) Too much too soon? The impact of treatment-focused

genetic testing in patients newly diagnosed with

breast cancer

 2) Integration of genetic testing for risk associated

genomic variants and rare predisposition genes into

the management of high risk hereditary breast cancer

families (variants in practice study)

Research grants and funding

1. Cancer Australia Grant – SUPER Study

2. VCA Grant – Cancer 2015

3. Cooperative Groups

• Australasian Gastrointestinal Trials Group

Cabrini Monash University Department of Medical OncologyThe Szalmuk Family Department of Medical Oncology

Associate Professor Henry Debinksi, a gastroenterologist, works at the Melbourne Gastrointestinal Investigation Unit at Cabrini. He was involved with the establishment of the Cabrini Family Cancer Clinic.

15• Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Trials Group

• National Cancer Research Network (UK)

4. Pharmaceutical Industry

• Allos Therapeutics

• Amgen Inc.

• Celgene Corporation

• F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

• Janssen Asia-Pacific

• Medivation Inc.

• Novartis Oncology

• Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

5. Ulm University (Germany)

Education

The Cabrini Institute appointed the first advanced trainee

in medical oncology in 2011. There has previously been

an advanced trainee in haematology for the past five

years. Both positions are accredited by the Royal

Australasian College of Physicians. The oncology position

has been created in partnership with the Alfred Hospital,

with two registrars each spending six months at Alfred

and Cabrini. It is part of the Victorian Medical Oncology

Training Program.

Partner organisations

American Association for Cancer Research

American Society of Clinical Oncology

Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group

Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Study Group

Australia and New Zealand Breast Cancer Trials Group

Australia New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group

Clinical Oncology Society of Australia

Clinical Trials Australia

Gynaecology Oncology Group – USA

Haematology Society of Australia

International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer

International Society of Gynaecologic Oncology

Medical Oncology Group of Australia

Monash Comprehensive Cancer Consortium

Monash Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre

Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute

Private Cancer Physicians of Australia

Southern Melbourne Integrated Cancer Service

Thoracic Society of Australia

Victorian Cooperative Oncology Group

Relationships

Cancer Australia

Cancer Council: Victorian Cooperative Oncology Group

Cancer Institute of NSW: Evi-Q

Clinical Trials Australia

Health Workforce Australia

Medical Oncology Group of Australia

Monash Cooperative Cancer Consortium

Private Cancer Physicians of Australia

Victorian Cancer Agency: Cancer 2015

From left: Dr Rachel Delahunty is an advanced trainee in medical oncology – she is pictured in Cabrini Brighton’s day oncology unit.

Oncologist Dr Michelle White spoke at the inaugural 2012 Brightways luncheon.

16 Established in 2006, the Cabrini Monash University

Department of Medicine provides a focus for research

and education in medicine within Cabrini. The major

stream of research relates to the translation of research

evidence into medical practice and improvement in

models of care for our patients. We are particularly

interested in research as it relates to the care of the

elderly and in particular end-of-life care.

Current projects

Clinician patient discourse –

a multimodal investigation

This qualitative study aims to describe how the work of

the ward round is carried out communicatively and to

investigate whether there are distinctive characteristics

of communicatively effective ward round interactions.

Analysis of the data shows that the ward round

communication is a stylised conversation with a particular

agreed format and rules of engagement. The thesis was

submitted in September 2014 by PhD student Alice Rouse.

Long-term health outcomes in patients aged over 80

years after an intensive care unit (ICU) admission

This prospective study aims to determine health

outcomes for patients aged 80 years and older, including

quality of life and functional status, up to two years after

discharge from intensive care. The 24-month follow-up

was completed in October 2014. Preliminary findings are

that quality of life is maintained post-ICU admission. We

have explored motivations, satisfaction with outcomes

and factors affecting medical decision-making in the

group of patients (80 years and older) who had cardiac

surgery (Oldroyd et al 2013).

Frailty and relationship to length of hospital stay

This study was completed by Dr Hanmei Pan as a registrar

project and showed that frailty is a better predictor for

discharge destination than age. Dr Pan is now a consultant

geriatrician at Monash Health.

End-of-life care projects

Our work on end-of-life care addresses the topic in a

number of different ways. We have written on attitudes

towards dying and how the concept of death has changed

over the course of history. A medical science approach

Cabrini Monash University Department of Medicine

From left: Associate Professor Michele Levinson. Associate Professor Michele Levinson (Head of the Cabrini Monash University Department

of Medicine and general physician) during a ward round with doctors Justin Cole, Chris Yeo, Michael Rose and Kelvin Kuik.

17to defy death is not always helpful in preparing for the

imminent death of a loved one (Gellie et al 2014, Mills et al

2014). Also, we have written on the default response to

in-hospital cardiac arrest, which is to attempt

resuscitation except in the presence of a do-not-

resuscitate order. We argue that resuscitation status for all

elderly patients should be discussed and actively decided

on admission to hospital (Levinson and Mills 2014.)

We conducted a multicentre, point prevalence study to

investigate the number of advance care plans and not-for-

resuscitation orders across five Victorian health services

(with the manuscript in preparation). Completion of this

study revealed each site had its own set of forms and

policies regarding resuscitation status, which combine to

contribute to barriers to the writing of do-not-resuscitate

orders (Levinson et al 2014).

A 12-month retrospective review of medical emergency

team (MET) call data in 2012 illustrated the role of the

MET in end-of-life care, especially with regard to writing

limitations of treatment orders. This review will be

extended by inclusion of data from 2013.

We have investigated the use of language around

concepts of resuscitation. A pilot study, and now a group

of elderly, hospital-admitted patients, were surveyed

to assess understanding of terminology relating to

‘do-not-resuscitate’ orders. The next step is to survey

elderly people who live in the community.

Future projects

Planning is underway for projects that will investigate a

description of the illness trajectory over 12 months in a

post-acute hospital admission in the elderly; the utility of

the ‘surprise question’ in predicting inpatient mortality;

and surveys of clinical staff regarding their attitudes and

understanding of resuscitation.

Education

Our involvement in the government-funded Specialist

Training Program continues and includes two advanced

trainees in general medicine and one in intensive

care /general medicine. This has been a successful

Clockwise from top: Dr Hanmei Pan, a geriatric registrar, spent six months at Cabrini working on a collaborative research study about frailty. Dr Amber Mills is a Research Fellow in the

Cabrini Monash University Department of Medicine. A study that illustrates the role of the medical emergency team (MET) in end-of-life care is being extended by inclusion of data from 2013.

Pam Pendleton (a critical care nurse) is pictured with Dr John Reeves, Director of Cabrini’s intensive care unit.

18program with excellent feedback; it has been accredited

by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians for

General Medicine training for each of the participating

registrars. Two trainees participate in inpatient and

ambulatory care within the Professorial General Medical

Unit and under the supervision of one of three consultant

physicians working on a rotating roster with designated

medical receiving days via the emergency department.

Training supervision is provided by Associate Professor

Levinson. An additional trainee in the general medical

stream participates in an intensive care rotation under

the supervision of Associate Professor Levinson and Dr

Jonathan Barrett. Our registrars participate in curriculum

development for the clinical school and are involved with

the research program of the Cabrini Monash University

Department of Medicine.

The Department of Medicine and associated clinical

service delivery unit (Professorial General Medical Unit)

place a high priority on the mentoring of undergraduate

medical students and postgraduate trainees. Many of our

undergraduate students continue to return for further

rotations and postgraduate placements.

Leadership positions and appointments

As well as her Cabrini commitments, Associate Professor

Levinson has held the following leadership positions,

appointments and commitments during 2013-14:

• Member of SAC for Acute and General Medicine

• Lead in Accreditation

• Co-Chair RACP-CICM Working Group on Joint Training

• Site visit for trainee/site in trouble

• OTP interviews for RACP

• Examiner for FRACP clinical examination

• Represented SAC at RACP Education Committee

meeting 2013

• Represented SAC at the Advanced Training Forum 2014

Dr Mills, in addition to her role as Research Fellow at the

Cabrini Monash University Department of Medicine, is

a Board Member of the Australian Patients Association,

which is an independent, not-for-profit organisation

dedicated to championing and protecting the rights and

interests of all patients.

Cabrini Monash University Department of Medicine

Above: Dr Jonathan Barrett (Deputy Director, Intensive Care) is pictured with Nurse Manager Jill Saville.

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M att Johnson, former Manager of the

Simulation Centre and now Director of

Clinical Education, is clear that at Cabrini, education isn’t

about “time served” by the clinician, it’s about quality of

care – improved patient safety.

“It’s not about the time spent educating, it’s about

patient outcomes. There’s a real appetite to keep

improving,” says Matt. “That means lots of simulation

activities and experiential learning”.

“For example, in the emergency department where

we’ve held deteriorating patient workshops, we

know that when adverse events occur, they mostly

occur because of time pressure and communication

breakdowns,” says Matt. “Simulation activities highlight

this and show how changes in behaviour can translate

into differences for patient outcomes. As a patient

deteriorates, how does the team work together? What

can we learn from this and how do we change?”

‘Team’ is a word that Matt uses a lot. At Cabrini, clinical

education has shifted from traditional approaches

(ward-based, discipline-specific education) to team-

based training involving diverse groups of clinicians.

“Logistically, it can be difficult to do, but it’s universally

well accepted and well received, the notion that it is

how we work together, so that’s how we should learn,”

says Matt.

Matt JohnsonTEAMWORK FOR BETTER CLINICAL EDUCATION

20Nursing research at Cabrini is focused on excellence in

patient and family care. We aim to constantly improve

and evaluate the safety and quality of our services,

provide evidence for nurses to inform their clinical

practice and help our patients and their families make

informed healthcare decisions. The new Centre for

Nursing Education and Research has been established at

Cabrini, in order to help us achieve our goals. This chapter

includes the research activities of the centre while our

education activities are reported in the chapter entitled

‘Clinical education at Cabrini’.

This is the first report of the Cabrini Centre for Nursing

Education and Research. The goals of this centre are to:

1. Evaluate Cabrini nursing safety and quality activities

2. Assist Cabrini in addressing the National Safety and

Quality in Health Service (NSQHS) Standards of Care

evaluation criteria

3. Build the research capacity of nursing at Cabrini,

in order to:

• Provide a resource for evidence; data collection

methodology and interpretation; and evaluation

• Develop research skills within the workforce

by supporting the research training of staff and

encouraging staff with ideas to develop into junior

researcher practitioners

• Develop a culture of clinical enquiry

• Develop subject matter experts

4. Support quality improvement research and

disseminate findings through conference

presentations and publications

5. Work with Cabrini’s organisation development

function in building a learning organisation at Cabrini

6. Build our reputation in the key areas of patient

experience, safety and quality of patient care and

other areas

7. Develop a research program in the area of nursing

leadership, workforce and skill development

Progress in 2013-14

A Research Associate has been appointed to support the

Director who commenced in July 2014. A research agenda

has been established and approved which is based on the

Cabrini Strategic Plan 2013-15 and aligns with the (NSQHS)

standards evaluation requirements.

Cabrini Centre for Nursing Education and Research

From top: Associate Professor Leanne Boyd. Nurse Stephanie McArthur with a cardiac patient at Cabrini Malvern.

21

A highlight was the enhanced level of postgraduate

enrolments and research dissemination among the

Cabrini education team. The supervision of higher

degree research students reinforces the research

culture at Cabrini and our success with publications is

demonstrating growth in this area.

We are currently working to establish:

• A student support hub to provide assistance

and resources for nursing staff undertaking

postgraduate degrees

• Research partnerships with universities and other

stakeholders

• Research expertise in leadership and patient centred

care, as well as quality and safety

• Research secondments where Cabrini nurses who

have an interest in research work on a project while

working part-time clinically. The aim is to enhance

individuals’ research skills and embed them within the

practice setting. This will expand our local research

capacity and support the development of a culture

of enquiry in our workforce.

Grants

The following grants were awarded in 2013-14.

Victorian Department of Health

(amount: $145,000)

Project title: Evaluating the national standards education

projects using a process and impact evaluation strategy

Applicants: Boyd L, Cosgrave M, Goh J, Warren T,

Brockhus F, Johnson M (2013-14)

Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing

(amount: $444, 950)

Project title: Improving navigation of Australian drug and

alcohol services: mapping and database creation

Applicants: Boyd L, Sheen J; Lubman D (2013-14)

Australian Catholic University/HWA fund

(amount: $24,100)

Project title: Mapping placement capacity and quality

Applicants: Boyd L, Spence A (2014)

Australian Catholic University/HWA fund

($28,367)

Project title: Developing the preceptor role within Cabrini

Applicants: Boyd L, Spence A (2014)

From left: Nurse Stephanie McArthur with a cardiac patient at Cabrini Malvern. Research Associate Amanda Pereira-Salgado has joined the Cabrini

Centre for Nursing Education and Research. Nurse Yvonne Youngs, wearing protective clothing as she tends patient Douglas Gordon.

22 Established in 1998, the Chair of Surgery at Cabrini

Hospital is a joint venture between Cabrini Institute

and Monash University. It was the first of its kind in the

Victorian private medical sector and one of the first in

Australia. The chair was endowed as the Fröhlich West

Chair of Surgery in 2004.

During 2013-14, the Cabrini Monash University

Department of Surgery continued to play a critical

leadership role in bowel cancer research, public education

and awareness of bowel cancer screening. This year saw

the appointment of Dr Simon Wilkins as Inaugural Post

Doctoral Research Fellow. His appointment as a full-

time researcher in the department has provided greatly

enhanced research output in 2014.

A highlight was the successful roll-out of our

department’s database to both our Monash Partner

hospitals and bi-nationally as the database of the

Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand

(CSSANZ). More than 70 centres have signed up to

participate, making this one of the most broadly accepted

database models in the world. The first major publication

from the database was accepted in Diseases of the Colon

and Rectum, demonstrating the highest ever reported

level of clinician compliance with data entry: a critical

marker of success for measurement of clinical quality.

Cabrini Monash University Department of SurgeryThe Fröhlich West Chair of Surgery

From left: Associate Professor Paul McMurrick. Associate Professor Paul McMurrick farewells medical evacuee Kingsford Guri (PNG) following successful surgery and

treatment at Cabrini Malvern (photo by Janine Eastgate, courtesy Leader Community Newspapers). Colorectal surgeon Mr Stephen Bell performs surgery at Cabrini.

23This year saw the introduction of meetings of MONCARP,

a bowel cancer research partnership led by our

department and incorporating our clinical partners

at other Monash University affiliated hospitals and

researchers from the Faculty of Medicine.

Our public awareness campaigns have seen important

partnerships formed with the Jodi Lee Foundation,

Austereo MMM and the AFL’s Collingwood Football Club.

Major public awareness initiatives are planned for 2015,

in order to try to improve on the modest levels of public

take-up of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.

In late 2014, we will host a visit by Professor George

Chang from MD Anderson Cancer Centre, as our 2014 AL

Polglase Visiting Professor in Surgery. Professor Chang will

speak on the topic of ‘Colorectal cancer in the younger

population’ at Cabrini Malvern. Doctors, nurses, allied

health practitioners, staff and others are invited to attend.

During 2013-14, we continued to host rotating SET 1

trainees in surgery and we welcomed Boris Ruggerio as

our Colorectal Fellow.

We maintained representation on representative boards

and learned bodies as follows:

• Joint Council of Monash Comprehensive Cancer

Consortium and Southern Melbourne Integrated

Cancer Service: Associate Professor Paul McMurrick

• Executive Committee, Cancer Stream, Academic

Health Science Centre, Monash Partners: Associate

Professor Paul McMurrick

• Executive Council, Victorian Clinical Oncology Group:

Associate Professor Paul McMurrick

• Member of the Training Board in Colon and Rectal

Surgery: Mr Stephen Bell

• Member of the Victorian Advisory Panel for the

National Bowel Cancer Screening Program:

Mr Stephen Bell

Clockwise from top: Dr Simon Wilkins is Inaugural Post Doctoral Research Fellow: a full-time research role which benefits the department’s research output.

Cabrini colorectal surgeons are pictured performing surgery (middle) Associate Professor Paul McMurrick and (bottom) Mr Peter Carne.

24 Cabrini is a strong supporter of education in

healthcare through the Cabrini Clinical School,

which coordinates, manages and promotes clinical

education and research within Cabrini. Cabrini is a

teaching hospital. In fulfilling this role, we participate

in undergraduate and postgraduate education in allied

health, medicine and nursing.

Medical education

During 2013-14, Cabrini’s medical education program

continued to expand. The number of students and

doctors (who voluntarily give their time to teach in all

areas of anaesthesia, medicine, pathology and surgery)

continued to grow. The continual expansion of the

medical education program reflects its strong reputation.

Undergraduate education

For the 2014 academic year, 24 third-year students

are placed at Cabrini under the direction of Associate

Professor Michele Levinson who is Clinical Dean.

During the year, mentoring tutor groups continued,

as well as our successful interdisciplinary learning

program. Our bedside teaching and learning activities

continued, as well as involvement of our postgraduate

trainees in the education and mentoring of our

undergraduates. Development of the online portal on

the Cabrini website continued, which provides access to

the undergraduate education program. Students are now

able to complete an online orientation to the program

prior to clinical placement.

In 2013-14, we increased our numbers of fifth-year

students. It is pleasing to see our third-year students

returning to Cabrini for their fifth-year placements.

We continue to provide placements for fourth-year

students in paediatrics. We are extremely thankful to our

patients and their families for their valued contribution to

medical education at Cabrini.

Postgraduate education

The Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing

funds specialist training positions. This provides

specialist trainees with opportunities to experience

medical practice in the private sector, which is an

important provider of medical care in the community.

These positions were awarded to Cabrini in conjunction

with public health services, including Alfred Health,

Eastern Health, Monash Health and Peter MacCallum

Cancer Centre. We offer positions in a wide range of

disciplines including colorectal surgery; emergency

medicine; general medicine (three positions); geriatrics;

haematology; intensive care; medical administration;

medical oncology; neurology; palliative medicine;

pathology; and upper-gastrointestinal surgery. The

specialist trainees participate in patient care, audit and

research at Cabrini with guidance and supervision of

consultant physicians and surgeons.

Clinical education at Cabrini

From left: Associate Professor Michele Levinson (Clinical Dean). Anne Spence (Manager, Education)

25We are enjoying our purpose-built education precinct,

which provides an excellent venue for the ongoing

education of our health workforce. The simulation

centre has allowed the development of an integrated

simulation and problem-based learning curriculum for

third-year medical students, which is valuable. We are

planning to integrate inter-professional education

over 2014.

Changes in clinical education

There were some major changes in education at Cabrini

over the past year. Organisationally, nursing education

joined medical and allied health education to form the

Cabrini education department under the auspices of

the Cabrini Institute. This has identified a number of

opportunities in education planning and has fostered

inter-professional teaching and learning activities.

A highlight was the opening of the Patricia Peck Education

and Research Precinct. The building houses the Cabrini

Institute, which leads Cabrini’s work in education,

research and health promotion. This is now Cabrini’s

permanent base for students and clinical researchers.

In its first full year, it is anticipated that 500 students

will participate in clinical education there and more

than 600 clinicians will conduct education, training and

research. Undergraduate and postgraduate students

from medicine, nursing and allied health are supported in

their learning through the simulation centre. The centre

focuses on enhancing patient safety, excellence in patient

and family care and interdisciplinary teamwork. A number

of pilot studies are underway, which will enable situational

learning to be embedded within all Cabrini campuses.

Other developments and work in progress over

2013-14 include:

• A review of the undergraduate nursing program

• A review of the Cabrini graduate nurse program

• A review of Cabrini postgraduate nursing programs

• Introduction of version six of the Cabrini learning

management system (LMS)

• Introduction of a student portal for all disciplines

containing EQuIPNational education material (note:

EQuIPNational is a four-year accreditation program

for health services designed to ensure a continuing

focus on quality and was developed in response to the

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health

Care’s National Safety and Quality Health Service

Standards which are mandatory for health services

from 1 January 2013)

Undergraduate nursing placements

We have continued our relationships with Deakin

University (CADET model) and Australian Catholic

University (ACCENT model) in the provision of

undergraduate nursing placements. Also, we expanded

our capacity to support Monash University Masters of

Nursing Practice students at Cabrini Brighton.

From left: Cabrini’s new Patricia Peck Education and Research Precinct at 154 Wattletree Road, Malvern. Chief Executive Dr Michael Walsh speaks at the official opening and blessing of the Patricia Peck Education

and Research Precinct held in November 2014. Then Mayor of Stonnington Councillor Matthew Koce experimented with simulation technology when he toured the Patricia Peck Education and Research Precinct.

26Graduate programs

The Cabrini graduate nurse program continues to flourish.

Currently we have 46 graduate nurses with seven of

them undertaking their graduate year within the

perioperative environment.

Allied health education

Allied health education has become integrated as part

of the Cabrini Centre for Allied Health Research and

Education, enabling us to move toward an overarching

strategic plan linking staff research and education.

Development in several aspects of staff and student

education programs has progressed over the past 12

months, with focus on finalising the Clinical School

Network Agreement with our primary university partner,

La Trobe University. This will enable undergraduate

student placements in the disciplines of dietetics,

occupational therapy, physiotherapy, social work and

speech pathology to be formally coordinated and

supported within this agreement, together with the

support provided by La Trobe University appointed

Associate Professor in Allied Health Dr Helena Frawley

and a Student Placement Clinical Coordinator.

Plans continue for student placements with other

university providers in speciality areas or postgraduate

placements. Development of an online allied health

student portal has progressed, in order to meet the

specific needs of allied health students and their clinical

supervisors. Cabrini continues its partnership with

Holmesglen TAFE, teaching into Holmesglen’s Certificate

IV in Allied Health Assistance, as well as accepting clinical

placement of the Holmesglen Certificate IV Allied Health

Assistance Course Students.

A mapping exercise has been introduced, in order

to track staff postgraduate qualifications and

professional development activities. This is designed

to ensure identified priority service areas are met with

the highest levels of skills. Currently allied health staff

have access to professional development opportunities,

which are well subscribed. However, we hope to seek

opportunities to offer more substantial and regular

funding support through the development of scholarships

and other avenues of support to formal learning and

higher qualifications.

Simulation Centre

Since it opened in February 2014, the Stewardson

Charitable Trusts Simulation Centre has conducted more

than 300 simulation activities involving 714 students

and staff. The simulation activities have focussed on

undergraduate nursing and medical students entering

clinical placements at Cabrini, providing them with

supervised opportunities to improve their skills in

basic life support, communication with patients and

identification of the deteriorating patient.

Research generated from these activities has resulted

in acceptance of oral presentations at three national

Clinical education at Cabrini

Above: Matthew Johnson is pictured in the Stewardson Charitable Trusts Simulation Centre at the Cabrini Institute.

27conferences and two international conferences. The

simulation activities have extended into the hospital

setting at Cabrini Malvern, now being conducted

regularly at the wards. A partnership with Laerdal Australia

has seen new technology that enables real-time tracking

of performance and automated feedback implemented

on a trial basis at Cabrini Malvern. The next year will see

an expansion of simulated learning activities both in the

simulation centre and at all Cabrini campuses.

Library

The Lee & Brian Johnstone Library is the new library space,

which has become an integral part of education and

research at Cabrini. Staff and students use the physical

library space to engage in group learning, silent study,

and training in information skills via formal and informal

library sessions.

The Cabrini Library Collection Development Policy

was revised in January 2014, in order to develop and

plan for an increase in electronic resources that can be

accessed and discovered by all staff across all Cabrini sites.

Increased funding has allowed subscriptions to more

bibliographic databases and purchase of e-book content

to over 100 titles, as well as subscribed and open-access

to more than 6000 online journals .

Through promotion of the library and its services, it

has become a collaborative partner in the information

requirements of clinical, research and non-clinical areas of

Cabrini. This is reflected in increased use of the library’s

services and resources. Statistics show that literature

search requests increased by 15 per cent. There was a

large increase of 82 per cent (17,960) in full text articles

downloaded by staff.

The e-library will extend beyond the hospital environment

in 2014 with the purchase of OpenAthens Software, which

will allow staff and specialists access to the its resources

from home or a mobile device.

Education infrastructure

The education infrastructure team has worked on

simplifying systems to support an increasing number of

clinical placements. We are standardising agreements

and building stronger relationships with fewer education

providers. Our main providers are Monash, Deakin and

Australian Catholic universities. We aim to ensure that

our excellent education provision is underpinned by a

sustainable business model.

We support the Specialist Training Program and have

20 posts in partnership with public hospitals across a

wide spectrum of specialties at Cabrini. Trainees value

the opportunity to learn from and work closely with our

medical consultants. We have secured funding for two

additional positions in 2015: one in gastroenterology

and one in general medicine. These trainees provide

wonderful support to our undergraduate medical

education program.

Above: Di Horrigan is Cabrini’s librarian based at the Patricia Peck Education and Research Precinct.

28 The Cabrini Monash Psycho-oncology group,

established in 2008, strives to achieve real clinical

research outcomes that can make a difference to people’s

lives. We work to conduct best practice, evidence-based

research, clinical interventions and education with

respect and understanding.

Awards

Dr Sue Burney’s contribution to health psychology and

psycho-oncology was recognised by the Australian

Psychological Society with the following honour:

Australian Psychological Society, College of Health

Psychologists, Award of Distinction 2013.

Research grants

Victoria Cancer Agency,

Collaborative Research Grant ($2m)

Project title: The Cancer of Prostate Translational

Research in Victoria (CAPTIV) Collaboration

Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Mark Frydenberg,

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences,

Monash University

Education

In the second half of 2013, we supervised one student

from Victoria University and two Doctor of Psychology

(Health) students from Deakin University on placement

with the group. In the first half of 2014, we continued

with the two Doctor of Psychology students. We began

supervision of one clinical master student from Australian

Catholic University and one counselling master student

from La Trobe University.

As part of these placements, students are involved in

a range of experiences such as:

• Conducting a mindfulness program for patients,

families and staff at our Brighton, Malvern and

Prahran hospitals

• Holding a range of psycho-education workshops

for Cabrini’s cancer patients and their families at our

Brighton and Malvern hospitals

• Provision of a clinical psychological service in the day

oncology units at our Brighton and Prahran hospitals

Clinical services

The Melbourne Psycho-oncology Service continues

to be led by Jane Fletcher, who is the treating psycho-

oncologist and health psychologist. It operates at

three Cabrini locations and a monthly session is held

at Australian Urology Associates. The service provides

support to carers and family members and those who

have been bereaved through cancer. During the year,

Cate Miach was appointed to expand the practice and

decrease waiting times.

Dr Burney and Ms Fletcher continue to provide a

consultation psycho-oncology service at Cabrini Prahran.

Cabrini Monash Psycho-oncology

Above: Dr Sue Burney

29Dr Burney, who works part-time as a psychologist at

Cabrini Prahran, has introduced a range of supportive

care strategies at this hospital. Ms Fletcher and Ms Miach

provide psychological input in the eight-week breast

cancer rehabilitation program.

Engagement in the professional community

Dr Burney continues to be actively involved with the

Australian Psychological Society College of Health

Psychologists (Victoria). She and Ms Fletcher have

continued to work on the update of the National

Health and Medical Research Council’s Clinical Practice

Guidelines for the Psychosocial Care of Adults with

Cancer. Dr Burney was also involved in the CareSearch

palliative care project. Ms Fletcher and Dr Jo Brooker

are committee members of the Mental Health

Professionals Network, Psycho-oncology Group.

Dr Brooker is a member of the Cabrini Human

Research Ethics Committee.

Current projects

• Finding the Words: The lived experience of parents in

communicating their cancer diagnosis to their children

• The lived experiences of patients and carers in

Cabrini’s palliative homecare service

• The development of a treatment decision-making

aid for patients who have early stage, non-small

cell lung cancer

• The development of a treatment decision-making

aid for men who have early stage prostate cancer

• The unmet needs of women diagnosed with

ovarian cancer

• Understanding and measuring health literacy for

caregivers of people who have cancer

• Refinement and revalidation of the

demoralisation scale

• Meaning and purpose therapy in advanced cancer –

a pilot, randomised, controlled trial

• Self-compassion and psychological health: the

mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties

Completed research projects

• Exploring the factors predicting psychological distress

in haematopoietic stem cell transplant patients

• Post-traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth in

women diagnosed with ovarian cancer

• The information and supportive care needs of

Australian, Greek and Italian men diagnosed with early

stage prostate cancer

• An exploration of the experiences of volunteers in the

Cabrini biography service

• The impact of physical activity on the psychological

wellbeing of men undergoing androgen deprivation

therapy

• The lived experience of women who have

gynaecological cancers

• Oncology patient wellbeing: mood, quality of life,

and fatigue

From left: Key staff and students of the Cabrini Monash Psycho-oncology group. Jane Fletcher (Deputy Head) is a psycho-oncologist who works in clinical practice.

30 This is the second report of the Allied Health Research

Unit, which was established in 2012 to build the

research capacity across and within each of Cabrini’s

allied health professions.

During 2013-14, Cabrini’s Allied Health Research Unit

operated for its first full 12 months. It is led by Associate

Professor Helena Frawley under a joint appointment

with La Trobe University. This has been an important

development in allied health research at Cabrini, as

we enter a formal agreement with our new university

partner to support research and education in allied health

throughout the organisation.

Leadership of the unit has been supported by other

research-active staff:

• Tash Brusco, Manager of Physiotherapy Services,

who is currently completing her PhD

• Dr Rosemary Higgins, health psychologist

While the allocation for allied health research is a

small, part-time fraction, it is anticipated that the unit’s

activity and output will grow over time to become a

productive and leading centre for allied health research

in private healthcare.

Research activity has progressed over the past 12 months

and for the first time, this has been captured in an allied

health research activity database. The research findings

highlight the depth and breadth of research activities

among allied health clinicians and will support plans

to identify strengths and any deficits in staff research

expertise, in order to meet our strategic research goals

and support improvements in patient outcomes. Several

research projects are in consultation and design phase,

with interest in multidisciplinary collaboration and focus

on delivering research outputs that align with our goals.

A second focus of allied health research activity is

translating research into practice. Implementation of

findings from research is the critical step to directly

improve clinical practice and outcomes for patients.

Activities to support this include review of current

clinical practice guidelines to ensure the highest levels of

evidence inform allied health clinical practice. Associate

Professor Frawley is working with department managers

to achieve this goal. In itself, this activity is supporting

allied health research capacity and capability.

Allied Health Research Unit

From left: Dr Helena Frawley PhD FACP. Allied health therapies are integrated into patients’ care plans where appropriate.

31Staff representing most allied health disciplines and

across all Cabrini campuses have been active in research

projects, with outputs ranging across CHREC-approved

research projects, publications, grants, conference

presentations, translational research and quality

improvement activities.

Research projects

Allied health research support is directed to projects led

by the dietetics department and a multidisciplinary allied

health rehabilitation project. The projects are as follows:

1. To identify the risk and prevalence of malnutrition

in colorectal cancer patients from diagnosis

to 30 days post surgical intervention.

Lead: Marlene Gojanovik (dietetics)

2. Investigating Malnutrition in Victorian Cancer

Services – Point Prevalence Study 2014.

Lead: Elizabeth Kent (dietetics)

3. International Nutrition Survey 2013.

Lead: Elizabeth Kent (dietetics)

4. A multidisciplinary rehabilitation program for

patients following surgery for colorectal cancer.

Lead: Helena Frawley (allied health). Disciplines

involved: physiotherapy, health psychology,

occupational therapy and dietetics. This project has a

nested pelvic floor muscle measurement study, which

is in collaboration with the University of Melbourne

and is part of a student’s PhD study.

Publications

As Cabrini-based allied health research is nascent in its

development, no CHREC-listed research projects have

translated to publications yet but this is expected to

eventuate in the next 12 months. Despite this, research-

active allied health staff feature in two publications in

2013-14 with Cabrini listed as an author affiliation, thereby

contributing to the profile of allied health clinical research

at Cabrini.

Grants

During 2013-14, two research-active staff have been

successful in attracting external funding which will

support their research activity:

1. Dr Helena Frawley, NHMRC Health Professional

Research Fellowship 2014-17

2. Dr Rosemary Higgins, who received several project

grants from the Victorian Cardiac Clinical Network and

BeyondBlue to support her research programs.

Conference presentations

Over the year, allied health staff were active in

conference presentations with research topics covering

an extensive range of healthcare areas relevant to

Cabrini. Presentations from staff include those invited as

experts in their field and those selected during blinded

peer-reviewed processes, across State, national and

international events.

From left: Tash Brusco, Cabrini’s Manager of Physiotherapy Services, is active in research and currently completing her PhD.

Libby Kent, Cabrini’s Manager of Nutrition and Dietetics, is leading two research projects related to nutrition.

32 The Cabrini Institute supports health promotion

activities on behalf of Cabrini. Cabrini is committed to

enhancing health and quality of life by treating sickness

and by working with our patients, residents and their

families to anticipate, prevent and ease suffering.

Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer

Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer (LBBC) is a not-for-profit health

promotion initiative of Cabrini, designed to lower deaths

related to bowel cancer – also known as colorectal cancer

– via public awareness, research and medical advances.

Our key goals for Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer are to:

• Demystify bowel cancer and increase awareness of

bowel cancer as a major public health issue

• Encourage every Australian 50 and over to screen

regularly for bowel cancer

• Promote and support ongoing bowel cancer education

and clinical research, focusing on prevention, early

detection and treatment of bowel cancer

Through LBBC, Cabrini remains committed to ongoing

bowel cancer research and raising awareness of the

importance of bowel screening in order to achieve better

health outcomes for our community. We continue to work

to raise awareness among all Australians that while bowel

cancer is the second-biggest cause of cancer-related

death in Australia, it is preventable. Early detection

with regular screening is vital to a positive outcome

with excellent success rates of approximately 90 per

cent. Unfortunately less than 40 per cent of cancers are

detected in the early stages.

Although bowel cancer screening is one of the simplest

and most effective methods for the prevention and

early detection of bowel cancer, latest reports show that

participation rates for bowel screening in Australia are

declining. This is concerning and there remains much to

be done to beat bowel cancer in our community.

The LBBC program supports the clinical bowel cancer

research activities of the Cabrini Monash University

Department of Surgery, led by Associate Professor Paul

McMurrick.

Our activities are supported by the LBBC Fundraising

Committee, which raises vital funds to support the

initiative and bowel cancer related activities at Cabrini,

including:

• Bowel cancer health promotion activities

• Bowel cancer research activities

Health promotion

From left: Supporters of Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer (from left): Associate Professor Paul McMurrick (colorectal surgeon and head of the Cabrini Monash University

Department of Surgery), Dr Peter Lowthian (Executive Director, Medical Services), Emeritus Professor Adrian Polglase and Des Jackson (member of the Let’s Beat Bowel

Cancer Committee). The Art Series Hotel Group is platinum sponsor of the Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer Golf Classic.

33• A Colorectal Fellowship program, which supports

research and the training of the future colorectal

surgical workforce

• Equipment related to bowel cancer management

LBBC health promotion activities

Bowel cancer is preventable and treatable, yet Australia

has one of the highest rates of the disease in the world.

The need for greater awareness and resulting behavioural

change towards prevention and early detection in the

community remains as important as ever.

For the second year in a row, Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer

partnered with Bowel Cancer Australia for our annual

and largest national media campaign to date. Strategic

communication support for this national campaign

promoting bowel screening for all Australians aged 50

and older was provided by Haystac (a division of the Aegis

Media Group).

In 2014, the campaign previously known as FOBruary

underwent rebranding and creative refreshment. A

new positioning line ‘Don’t Be a Fool. Test Your Stool’

put a fresh, light-hearted touch on what is an otherwise

serious campaign. Mass media activity was focused in

mid-February 2014, with national advertising conducted

over January-March 2014. The campaign was designed to

achieve awareness and understanding of bowel cancer

prevention and the benefits of bowel cancer screening.

The advertising message was promoted in outdoor

advertising, newspapers, online, magazines, television,

radio and cinemas, as well as in pharmacies, clubs and

community groups across Australia. Advertising helped

to generate traffic to a dedicated campaign website

www.testyourstool.org

Ambassadors have always formed an integral part of

LBBC bowel cancer campaigns. They act as high profile

spokespersons and help to generate media coverage

and participation. In 2014, we were fortunate to have the

support of George Negus, Michael Caton, Sophie Scott,

Anton Enus, Geoff Cox (known as Coxy), Daryl Somers

OAM and Kevin Sheedy.

Highlights from the 2014 campaign include:

• Radio community service announcement with

voiceover provided by veteran news reporter and

author George Negus

• New animated television commercial with voiceover by

Sophie Scott, ABC Radio health reporter

• Young & Jackson digital advertising billboard (timed to

coincide with Melbourne’s White Night Festival)

• $238,000 in pro bono support from the Aegis Media

Group (an increase of $20,000 on last year)

• $894,000 media value received (an increase of

$169,000 on last year)

From left: A luncheon was held in April 2014 to recognise Golf Classic sponsors and supporters; Lindsay Fox AC spoke at the event. The ‘Don’t Be a Fool.

Test Your Stool’ message was featured on the digital advertising billboard above the iconic Young & Jackson Hotel in Melbourne.

34Campaign supporters

Aegis Media Group (Haystac, Mitchell & Partners,

Posterscope, Jumptank)

BowelScreen Australia

Channel 31

Cancer Councils of Australia

Clinical Genomics (formerly Enterix Australia)

Fairfax Community Newspapers and Radio

King & Wood Mallesons

News Australia (Leader Community Newspapers)

Network Ten

Pharmacy Guild of Australia

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

SBS Television and Radio

Southern Cross Austereo Network

SEN Radio

Val Morgan Cinema Network

Yahoo!

Playing to save lives

The ninth Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer Golf Classic was held

in 2014 at Kingston Heath Golf Course. Sponsors and

guests enjoyed 18 holes of golf, excellent food and

beverages, as well as a range of inspiring and informative

speakers and special guests. As Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer’s

key fundraising event, the event has been successful

and received strong support due to loyal and generous

sponsors and donors. The event is managed by the Let’s

Beat Bowel Cancer Committee in collaboration with

GOLFSelect,

A field of 91 players teed-off helping to raise

approximately $80,000. The event included ‘Beat the Pro’

and ‘Hole in One’ competitions, as well as an on-course

barbecue and refreshments. The event finished with

dinner, a fundraising auction and prize presentations.

The Proclaim team, led by Jon Broome, took winning

team honours for the second consecutive year. Logical

Staffing Solutions, led by Russell Hutchinson, was close

second. Anthony Panuzzo and Emma Bryan were the

winning individuals.

The Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer Committee thanks platinum

sponsor The Art Series Hotel Group, as well as all gold and

silver sponsors for their generous support.

Platinum sponsor

The Art Series Hotel Group

Gold sponsors

Anderson Partners

BDA Marketing and Planning

Commonwealth Bank

Garuda Indonesia

Identity Matters

K2 Asset Management

Kay & Burton

Health promotion

Above: Television celebrity Geoff Cox (known as Coxy) is an ambassador for Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer.

He is pictured at the Golf Classic event held annually since 2005 to raise awareness and funds to support the cause.

35Logical Staffing Solutions

Morgan & Griffin

McMurrick Family

Pan Pacific Hotels Group

RMBL

SouthEast Business Park

UBS

Special luncheon

A special luncheon was held on 2 April 2014 to thank Golf

Classic sponsors and key supporters of the event. Thirty-

two guests attended a candid discussion with trucking

magnate and supporter of Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer

Lindsay Fox AC. Associate Professor Paul McMurrick gave

an overview of the latest bowel cancer research agenda

at Cabrini. The lunch was hosted by Des Jackson, Chair

of the Golf Classic Sub-Committee, in the UBS Wealth

Management Boardroom in Melbourne.

Recognition and appreciation

Cabrini’s Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer initiative relies on the

generosity of the community through philanthropic

support to achieve the program’s goals, as we do not

receive any government funding. The ongoing success of

Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer is due largely to the commitment

and enthusiasm of dedicated committee members who

continue to work hard in approaching potential and

existing sponsors about fundraising activities. The Cabrini

Institute is grateful for their efforts. We are indebted to

our patrons, ambassadors, corporate sponsors, suppliers

and philanthropic donors for their generous support and

ongoing commitment to helping us beat bowel cancer.

Foundation 49: Men’s Health

Foundation 49: Men’s Health (also known as F49) is an

initiative of Cabrini designed to improve the health of

Australian men. We do so by raising awareness of health

issues and encouraging men to have regular checks. This

is done through the distribution of information, as well as

supporting local communities and health professionals.

In 2013-14, program staff and supporters had a

busy year promoting men’s health and wellbeing

throughout Australia.

GP Symposium

The Foundation 49: Men’s Health GP Symposium was

held on 12 April 2014 at Cabrini’s Patricia Peck Education

and Research Precinct (154 Wattletree Road, Malvern).

Eleven top specialists provided participants with current

information, diagnostic and treatment strategies in the

contemporary setting. It was attended by more than

50 general practitioners, health professionals and

medical students.

From left: John Allen (Council member Foundation 49: Men’s Health), Penny Christie (Manager Foundation 49: Men’s Health),

ambassador Nic Stirzaker and Dr Peter Lowthian. Associate Professor Gary Richardson and the Honourable Jeff Kennett AC.

36Men’s Health Business Breakfast

The Foundation 49: Men’s Health business breakfast

was held on 11 June 2014 at Melbourne’s RACV Club

and it coincided with International Men’s Health Week.

Supported by the Cabrini Foundation and convened

by John Allen (F49 Council), the event attracted

280 guests (50 more than last year). The keynote

speaker was the Honourable Jeff Kennett AC who spoke

about maintaining good mental health and wellbeing

and his work with Beyondblue.

Panellists included Aboriginal Olympian Kyle Vander Kuyp,

barrister Greg Barns, television personality Brad McEwan

(who was Master of Ceremonies) and Australian Defence

Force squadron leader Aaron Ward.

Communications

Various communications are issued under the Foundation

49: Men’s Health banner. They are designed to promote

and encourage men’s health and wellbeing.

Whole New Ball Game

Foundation 49: Men’s Health continued to publish its

men’s health magazine A Whole New Ballgame. Three

editions were published and distributed, each with a print

run of 10,000 copies. The magazine covered a range

of men’s health topics and issues including: cancer and

conditions specific to men; risk and prevention; and

technological advances that support health.

Men’s Health Toolkit

The program’s key resource is a booklet called the Men’s

Health Toolkit. It is distributed throughout Australia

on request. It is a popular resource, which provides

information and support for men encouraging healthier

lifestyle choices.

Website

There is a dedicated website for Foundation 49: Men’s

Health. Funding has been allocated for an upgrade to the

site www.49.com.au

Community grants

The Men of Malvern ‘good men doing good things’ are

supporting F49 with funding to assist with the community

grants program for 2014. We are currently facilitating

16 grants for this round. They will support community

groups throughout Australia to hold men’s health events

and other activities to raise awareness of the importance

of men’s health.

Workplace health education sessions

Foundation 49: Men’s Health has continued to offer

educational sessions in the workplace, providing a

tailored presentation to groups of male employees that

are both informative and fun. These have been well

received and we are working to enhance this program

with the aim of encouraging better health behaviours in

the workforce.

Health promotion

Above: Penny Christie, Manager Foundation 49: Men’s Health, spoke at a number of events over the year.

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Kingsford Guri (centre) with Taissa Usatoff (left) and Jose Borje, who volunteered their time to assist with Kingsford’s operations.

K ingsford Guri (27) of Papua New Guinea had

life-changing surgery in 2013-14, thanks to

Cabrini and the Children First Foundation. He was

treated as a medical evacuee under Cabrini’s social

outreach program.

For all his life, Kingsford suffered from Hirschsprung’s

disease. It was recognised early and at two months of

age, he was treated at a hospital in the PNG highlands

where he had a colostomy bag fitted. Kingsford’s

disability prevented him from living normally, as he had

no access to the plastic bags needed to collect waste

from his colostomy.

“Kingsford’s life was very hard,” says Associate Professor

Paul McMurrick who is a colorectal surgeon at Cabrini,

head of the Cabrini Monash University Department of

Surgery and member of the Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer

Committee. “Stigmatised due to his disability, Kingsford

had been unable to complete his education or live a

normal adult life.”

Associate Professor McMurrick and Mr Chris Kimber

(paediatric surgeon) assessed Kingsford, in order to plan

the best approach to Kingsford’s surgery. “In November

2013, Kingsford underwent a major surgical procedure

at Cabrini Malvern to remove the diseased parts of his

bowel; then he had further surgery in January 2014

to remove the colostomy,” says Associate Professor

McMurrick. “He is now doing very well: the difficulties

he has endured are now behind him.”

Kingsford GuriNEW LIFE FOR KINGSFORD

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Department staff

Monash Department of Clinical

Epidemiology at Cabrini Hospital

Head of Department

Professor Rachelle Buchbinder

Administrative Assistant

Lavonne Collins

Managing Editor, Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group

Dr Renea Johnston

ARAD State Coordinator

Joan McPhee

Biostatistician

Dr Margaret Staples

Research Fellow

Dr Allison Bourne

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dr Susan Slade

Research Assistant

Marshall Mrocki

PhD scholars

Megan Blackburn (2010-), Deakin University

Rebecca Jessup (2014-), Deakin University

Sarah Hosking (2014-), Deakin University

Dr Bethan Richards (2011-), University of Sydney

Louise Sparkes (2013-), Monash University

Masters students

Kelly Joyce (2014-), Monash University

BBiomedSci student

Shehzaad Muhammad Peerbux (2014), Monash University

Cochrane review medical students

Jessica Deitch (Monash University)

Edward O’Bryan (Monash University)

Michael Silagy (Monash University)

Stephen Surace (Monash University)

Sabbaticals

Professor Francis Guillemin

(Nancy University, Nancy, France)

Professor Clermont Dionne

(Laval University, Québec, Canada)

Cabrini Monash University

Department of Medical Oncology

The Szalmuk Family Department of Medical Oncology

Head of Department

Associate Professor Gary Richardson

Principal Investigators

Dr Yoland Antill

Dr Ben Brady

Dr Andrew Haydon

Dr Melita Keneally

Dr David Pook

Professor Miles Prince

Associate Professor Gary Richardson

Dr Jeremy Shapiro

Dr Michelle White

Associate Investigators

Emma Beadsley

Dr Sanjeev Gil

Associate Professor Ian Haines

Dr Henry Januszewicz

Oliver Klein

Esther Lin

Dr Lara Lipton

Dr Ben Markman

Joanna Morgan

Dr Nicole Potasz

Professor Max Schwarz

Dr Robert Stanley

Karen Taylor

Associate Professor Max Wolff

Research Manager

Barbara Scher

39Study coordinators

Julia Carlson (team leader)

Jaishri Ellengovan

Mary Lane

Jenny McIndoe (Cancer 2015)

Alice Newman

Helen Smenda

Finance Manager

Janine La’Brooy

Family Cancer at Cabrini

Lynne McKay

Cabrini Monash University

Department of Medicine

Head of Department

Associate Professor Michele Levinson

Research Fellow

Dr Amber Mills

Research Assistants

Anthea Gellie

Gaya Sritharan

Gemma Stephenson

Higher Degree Research Students

Alice Rouse, PhD student

Volunteers

Valerie Co (fifth-year medical student)

Natalie Heriot

Dr Annie Walker (as fifth-year medical student)

Monash Medical Centre, Alfred Hospital and Royal

Melbourne Hospital third- and fourth-year medical students

for the point prevalence study

Cabrini Centre for Nursing

Education and Research

Director

Associate Professor Leanne Boyd

Research Associate

Amanda Pereira-Salgado

PhD scholars

Louise Alexander: What are the impacts of simulation based

education and training on healthcare trainees attitudes

towards the mentally ill?

Janet Curtis: Occupational health and safety issues within

the paramedic workplace

Matthew Johnson: Impact of communication education on

students’ communication skills in clinical practice

Grainne Lowe: Nurse Practitioner policy and future directions

Tegwyn McManamny: The role of primary healthcare in the

management of dual-diagnosis patients within Australia

Diana Wong: A comparative analysis of evaluation models

used in disaster responses

Masters students

Jo Miller

Emma Patterson

Amanda Peat

Chris Quinn

Jo Schlieff

Tanya Warren

Bachelor of Nursing (Honours) student

Meg Pollock

Cabrini Monash University Department of Surgery

The Fröhlich West Chair of Surgery

Head of Department

Associate Professor Paul McMurrick

Academic staff

Emeritus Professor Adrian Polglase

Mr Stephen Bell

Mr Roger Berry

Mr Peter Carne

Mr Martin Chin

40Mr Chip Farmer

Mr Pravin Ranchod

Mr Andrew Smith

Administrative and management staff

Jane Makin – Manager Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer

Karen Oliva – Database Manager

Dr Simon Wilkins – Research Fellow

Clinical Education at Cabrini

Director of Education

Associate Professor Leanne Boyd

Allied health education

Associate Professor Helena Frawley

Tash Brusco, Manager Physiotherapy Services/Education

Portfolio, Cabrini Allied Health Committee

Simulation Manager

Matt Johnson

Manager of Library Services

Diane Horrigan

Nursing education team

Fiona Barker

Agnetha Clarke

Andrew Driver (maternity relief)

Lauren Felsinger (maternity leave)

Elizabeth Gherardin

Yvette Gomez

Abby Hadden

Claire Hatherley

Natalie Horvath

Michelle Kirwood

Julianne McKernan

Jo Miller

Judith O’Neill

Christine Quinn

Sharon Rubeli

Joanne Schlieff

Elizabeth Smith

Louise Suttie

Tanya Warren

Clinical liaison team

CADET program: Tanya Warren, Cathie Muling

ACCENT program: Louise Buchhorn, Emma Patterson

Education infrastructure team

Anne Spence (Manager)

Anne-Marie Devine

Jan Palich

Sue Smith

Administration team

Barbara Miles

Maria Terzoglou

Medical education

Clinical Dean

Associate Professor Michele Levinson

Administrative assistants

Elizabeth Hopkins

Claire Weeden

Cabrini Monash Psycho-oncology

Head of Unit

Dr Sue Burney

Deputy Head

Jane Fletcher

Research Fellow

Dr Jo Brooker

Current research students

Rebecca Carlson, Graduate Diploma

of Psychology, Deakin University

Melissa Maas, Doctor of Psychology

(Health), Deakin University

Department staff

41Brindha Pillay, Doctor of Psychology

(Clinical), Monash University

Sophie Robinson, Doctor of Psychology

(Clinical), Monash University

Lyndel Shand, Doctor of Psychology

(Health), Deakin University

Gemma Stephenson, Bachelor of Psychology

(Honours), University of New England

Adriana Ventura, Doctor of Psychology

(Health), Deakin University

Eva Yuen, PhD, Deakin University

Allied Health Research Unit

Head of Department

Dr Helena Frawley PhD FACP

Associate Professor Allied Health, La Trobe University,

Melbourne.

Health Promotion

People behind LBBC

Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer Committee

Richard Morgan AM (Chair)

Dr Peter Carne

Andrew Facey

Des Jackson (Chair, Golf Classic sub-committee)

Sue James

Dr Peter Lowthian

Associate Professor Paul McMurrick

Geoff Stansen

Retirement from committee

Pamela Darragh

Patron

Emeritus Professor Adrian Polglase

Manager

Jane Makin

Golf Classic Event Manager

Samantha McLennan

People behind Foundation: 49 Men’s Health

Manager Foundation: 49 Men’s Health

Penny Christie

Foundation 49 Council

Associate Professor Gary Richardson (Chair)

John Allen

Robyn Charlwood

Penny Christie

Mr Jeremy Grummet

Dr Daryl Kroschel

Associate Professor Doug Lording

Professor Bernie Marshall

Alistair McCreadie

Stephen Mead

Dr Peter Wirth

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Governing safe and ethical research 43

44 The Cabrini Human Research Ethics Committee

helps to protect the interests of patients, researchers

and Cabrini by maintaining high ethical research

standards in research projects. High quality, ethical

research creates many benefits for patients, health

professionals and the community.

The Cabrini Health Human Research Ethics Committee

reports directly to the Cabrini Board. It reviews and

approves research projects conducted at Cabrini that

involves human participants. It is chaired by Dr Margaret

Staples and managed by Anne Spence.

Our Human Research Ethics Committee ensures that:

• Ethically sound research is promoted and supported

at Cabrini

• The research affirms the mission and values of Cabrini

and social teachings of the Catholic Church

• Ethical standards are maintained in research projects

to protect the interests of the research participants,

the investigator and the institution

It operates in accordance with the National Statement

on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Humans issued

by the National Health and Medical Research Council in

2007, other relevant Commonwealth and State legislation

and regulations and Catholic Health Australia’s Code

of Ethical Standards for Catholic Health and Aged Care

Services in Australia.

Activity

During 2013-14, the Cabrini Human Research Ethics

Committee (CHREC) worked on 116 projects. These

projects included receipt of 89 new projects and final

approval of 85 projects. This is a significant increase on

the 64 projects approved in 2012-2013. We have more than

990 projects in our HRECTrack database. It is interesting

to compare the data for the year under review with the

period five years ago. At that time, we approved about the

same number of projects but the profile of those projects

was very different. We had 36 pharmaceutically sponsored

studies in 2008-09 compared with 14 in 2013-2014. We

have seen growth in investigator-initiated studies. The

biggest change is in the number of documents requiring

approval as part of the studies. In 2008-09, we reviewed

and approved 1136 documents compared with 2012

documents in 2013-14. That represents an increase of

77 per cent over the five years.

Supporting ethical research

Above: Anne Spence (Manager, Education).

45The CHREC continues to be led by Dr Margaret Staples. In

2013-14, we welcomed Drs Bronwyn Sacks; Dane Horsfall

and Associate Professor Val Usatoff (Deputy Medical

Director Cabrini) to our membership.

A highlight was a twilight seminar held on 29 May 2014

to educate staff on the new Australian Privacy Principles,

including related governance of clinical registries. Of

particular interest was information related to the privacy

provisions around data stored outside the Australian

privacy laws. The session was presented by Simon Bailey

and Dr Heather Wellington from DLA Piper.

Certification

The National Health and Medical Research Council’s

National Certification Scheme of Institutional Process

(related to the ethical review of multicentre human

research) conducted an audit of Cabrini’s processes in

December 2013. We received recertification from

1 January 2014 until 31 December 2016.

Cabrini Human Research Ethics Committee

Name NHMRC category Gender Status

Dr Dane Horsfall Professional carer Male Started 27/2/14

Dr Bronwyn Sacks Professional carer Female Started 27/2/14

Associate Professor Val Usatoff Researcher Male Started 27/2/14

Dr Michael Ben-Meir Professional carer Male Finished 8/1/14

Frances Brockhus Additional Female Finished 12/4/14

Emma Patterson Professional carer Female Finished 22/5/14

Professor Miles Prince Researcher Male Finished 8/1/14

Beatrice Bastomsky Lay person (female) Female  

Michelle Britbart Lawyer Female  

Dr Joanne Brooker Researcher Female  

David Curtain QC Lawyer Male  

Associate Professor Henry Debinski Researcher Male  

Revd Kevin McGovern Pastoral carer Male  

Associate Professor Marilyn Poole Additional Female  

John Robertson Lay person (male) Male  

Anne Spence Invitee Female  

Dr Margaret Staples Chairperson Female  

Dr Sharon Woolf Professional carer Female  

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Supporting ethical research

Research Area Title Principal Researcher

Arthritis Standardised method for reporting exercise programs Dr Susan Slade

A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation, multicentre study of a single, intravenous

infusion of allogeneic mesenchymal precursor cells in patients who have rheumatoid arthritis and incomplete

responses to at least one TNFα inhibitor

Associate Professor Stephen Hall

Cancer A multinational, prospective, observational study in patients who have unresectable or metastatic melanoma

[CA184143]

Dr Ben Brady

A phase 3, multicentre, open-label, randomised study of nab-paclitaxel plus gemcitabine versus gemcitabine

alone as adjuvant therapy in subjects who have surgically resected pancreatic adenocarcinoma [ABI-007-

PANC-003]

Associate Professor Jeremy Shapiro

A phase 3 study comparing daratumumab, lenalidomide and dexamethasone (DRd) versus lenalidomide and

dexamethasone (Rd) in subjects who have relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma [54767414MMY3003]

Professor Miles Prince

A prospective cohort study of patients who have cancer of unknown primary to create a national information

resource and improve understanding of the molecular biology, clinical, quality of life and psychosocial

characteristics [SUPER]

Associate Professor Gary Richardson

A study into the safety, efficacy and tolerability of scalp cooling for patients receiving chemotherapy in the

reduction of chemotherapy-induced alopecia

Vicki Durston

A multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial of fulvestrant (Faslodex) with or

without PD-0332991 (palbociclib) +/- Goserelin in women who have hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative,

metastatic breast cancer whose disease progressed after prior endocrine therapy [A5481023]

Dr Yoland Antill

Investigating practices relating to malnutrition in Victorian Cancer Services: Cancer Malnutrition Prevalence

Survey 2014

Elizabeth Kent (Morrell)

Randomised, double-blind control trial of Megestrol acetate, dexamethasone and placebo in the management of

anorexia in patients who have cancer

Dr Esther Lin

The effects of contrast media on methotrexate levels: a retrospective study Emma Wong

The Lymphoma Lifestyle, Environment and Family study (the LEAF study) Professor Miles Prince

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Research Area Title Principal Researcher

Cancer continued A randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, phase 3 study evaluating safety and efficacy of the addition

of veliparib plus carboplatin versus the addition of carboplatin to standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy versus

standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy in subjects who have early stage, triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)

[M14-011]

Dr Yoland Antill

Understanding how body composition can lead to prostate cancer progression Professor Mark Frydenberg

The acceptability, feasibility and efficacy (phase II RCT) of a decision aid for men who have localised prostate

cancer and their partners

Professor Mark Frydenberg

Circulating tumour DNA as a biomarker in pancreatic cancer Associate Professor Lara Lipton

A phase 4, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of continued enzalutamide treatment beyond

progression in patients who have chemotherapy-naïve, metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer

[MDV3100-10]

Associate Professor Jeremy Shapiro

A phase Ib/II, multicentre study of the combination of LEE011 and BYL719 with letrozole in adult patients who have

advanced ER+ breast cancer [CLEE011X2107]

Dr Yoland Antill

Patient Discharge Survivorship Improvement Project Amanda Proposch

The effects of butyrylated high amylose maize starch on polyposis in familial adenomatous polyposis patients Professor Finlay Macrae

Complete pathological response after neoadjuvant radiotherapy for rectal cancer and its relationship to the

degree of T3 invasion

Mr Stephen Bell

A retrospective audit of lung cancer diagnostic and treatment intervals across the Southern Melbourne Integrated

Cancer Service region with a pilot study of locally approved referral interval target times

Associate Professor Gary Richardson

A multinational, phase 3, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled efficacy and safety study of Enzalutamide

in patients who have non-metastic castration resistant prostate cancer

Associate Professor Jeremy Shapiro

Development of a Patient Symptom and Care Management Diary Amanda Proposch

Evaluation of the implementation of follow-up phone calls for patients after receiving cycle 1 of chemotherapy

treatment and patients’ experience of pre-chemotherapy education session

Amanda Proposch

Evaluation of patient satisfaction and comfort at the Cabrini Malvern Day Oncology Unit Amanda Proposch

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Research Area Title Principal Researcher

Cancer continued A phase 3, randomised study of BBI608 and best supportive care versus placebo and best supportive care in

patients who have pretreated advanced colorectal carcinoma

Associate Professor Jeremy Shapiro

A three-arm, randomised, open-label, phase 2 study of everolimus in combination with exemestane versus

everolimus alone versus capecitabine in the treatment of post-menopausal women who have estrogen receptor

positive, locally advanced, recurrent or metastatic breast cancer after recurrence or progression on prior

letrozole or anastrozole

Dr Yoland Antill

A phase 3, multicentre, randomised, double-blind study to compare the efficacy and safety of oral azacitidine plus

best supportive care versus placebo plus best supportive care in subjects who have red blood cell, transfusion-

dependent anemia and thrombocytopenia due to IPSS lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes

Dr Melita Kenealy

A phase 3, randomised, double-blind trial of Pegylated Liposomal Doxorubicin (PLD) plus AMG 386 or placebo

in women who have recurrent, partially platinum sensitive or resistant epithelial ovarian, primary peritoneal or

fallopian tube cancer

Associate Professor Gary Richardson

Epidemiology of multiple myeloma in Australia study Professor Miles Prince

Brightways breast cancer database Associate Professor Gary Richardson

Cardiology Sternal bleeding during coronary artery bypass surgery Mr Randall Moshinsky

Reducing red blood cell transfusion in cardiac surgery: a multicentre, quality improvement initiative of the

Perfusion Downunder Collaboration

Mr Michael McDonald

Heart Failure Model of Care Katherine (Kate) Steen

Impact of age and frailty on care and outcome of acute coronary syndrome in the elderly Dr Swati Mukherjee

Dietetics To identify the risk and prevalence of malnutrition in colorectal cancer patients from diagnosis to 30 days post-

surgical intervention

Elizabeth Kent (Morrell)

Assessing compliance of texture modified diets and thickened fluids provided to patients in a rehabilitation

setting (in comparison to current standards).

Rebekah Scholes

Education Comparison of clinical reasoning ability of medical students using in a problem based learning structure Matthew Johnson

Supporting ethical research

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Research Area Title Principal Researcher

Education continued Implementation and evaluation of changes to the Cabrini corporate orientation program and local

induction processes

Anne Schultz RN

An impact evaluation of NSQHS standards Associate Professor Leanne Boyd

Emergency medicine The safety and use of intravenous Metoprolol in general hospital wards – a single-centre, observational study Dr Diane Kelly

2014 Extension to Cabrini emergency department scribe pilot trial Dr Katie Walker

Cabrini emergency department scribe study Dr Katie Walker

Endocrinology Does anti-androgen therapy impair cognitive function in women who have polycystic ovarian syndrome? Professor Susan Davis

Endocrine Surgery Unit Databases and Thyroid Cancer Registry Dr Simon Grodski

Gastroenterology An open-label extension and safety monitoring study of moderate to severe ulcerative colitis patients previously

enrolled in etrolizumab phase 3 studies [GA28951]

Associate Professor Henry Debinski

A phase 3, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre study of the efficacy and safety of Etrolizumab during

induction and maintenance in patients who have moderate to severe active ulcerative colitis and who are

refractory to or intolerant of TNF inhibitors [GA28950]

Associate Professor Henry Debinski

A phase 3, international, multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group efficacy

and safety trial of Linaclotide administered orally for 12 weeks to patients who have irritable bowel syndrome

with constipation

Associate Professor Henry Debinski

Genetics Integration of genetic testing for risk associated genomic variants and rare predisposition genes into the

management of high risk hereditary breast cancer families

Dr Yoland Antill

Gynaecology A prospective, non-randomised, parallel cohort, multicentre study of the Solyx single-incision sling system versus

the Obtryx II sling system for the treatment of women who have stress urinary incontinence

Dr Anna Rosamilia

Haematology Improving Management by Participatory Research In Oncology: the Victorian Experiment (the IMPROVE study) Professor Miles Prince

Infection control Nursing-led antimicrobial stewardship intervention pilot project on the documentation of antimicrobial therapy

in haematology and oncology patients

Associate Professor Mary O’Reilly

Infectious diseases Patient attitudes towards immunisation for healthcare workers in a private day oncology unit Dr Jason Goh

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Research Area Title Principal Researcher

Intensive care TRANSFUSE: sTandaRd issue trANsfusion versuS Fresher red blood cell Use in intenSive carE-a randomised

controlled trial

Dr Jonathan Barrett

Medical imaging Tailoring 99mTc MAA doses to reduce radiation burden to patients for nuclear medicine ventilation

perfusion scans

Sarah Gales

Medicine Validation of a hospital-in-the-home specific patient satisfaction instrument Ian Campbell

A non-invasive screening tool for anaemia Associate Professor Michele

Levinson

Models of care Staff perceptions of the effects of a changed model of care in a palliative care service Dr Natasha Michael

Nursing Patient Safety Falls Kirsten Seletto

The impact of an undergraduate university fellowship program on the perceptions of work-readiness among

new graduate nurses: A cross-sectional study

Emma Patterson

Pilot study of the ‘Breast Feeding Champions’ group Chris Quinn

Evaluation of the Cabrini situational learning project Associate Professor Leanne Boyd

INtroducing A Care bundle to prevent pressure-point injury (the INTACT trial) Professor Tracey Bucknall

Cabrini intensive care advanced life support refresher and team training using simulation course research project Elizabeth Gherardin

Recognising and responding to patient deterioration education program Elizabeth Gherardin

An impact evaluation of the paediatric life support learning unit Associate Professor Leanne Boyd

Listen to me, I really am sick! Understanding patient and family perspectives in triggering responses to

medical emergencies

Professor Tracey Bucknall

Review of the Cabrini graduate nurse program Associate Professor Leanne Boyd

Patients’ and nurses’ preference for patient participation in safety activities Professor Tracey Bucknall

Cardiac Foundation Program Elizabeth Gherardin

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Research Area Title Principal Researcher

Nursing continued What are patients’ perceptions of medication management during their hospitalisation? Unknown

Evaluating the Malvern Nurse Manager orientation and induction process Margaret Harley

Obstetrics Australasian Maternity Outcomes Surveillance System (AMOSS): improving the safety and quality of

maternity care in Australia

Dr Danielle Wilkins

Ophthalmology Retinal oxygen levels and laser therapy for central retinal vein occlusion Associate Professor Wilson Heriot

2RT laser for the fellow eye (2RT 2E) Associate Professor Wilson Heriot

Laser intervention in age-related macular degeneration for patients rejected from the LEAD study (LEAD-R) Associate Professor Wilson Heriot

A phase 3, randomised, double-masked, controlled trial to establish the safety and efficacy of intravitreous

administration of fovista (Anti PDGF-B Pegylated Aptamer) administered in combination with Lucentis compared

to Lucentis monotherapy in subjects who have subfoveal neovascular age-related macular degeneration

Associate Professor

R C Andrew Symons

C-12-071 Randomised, double-masked, vehicle-controlled, clinical evaluation to assess the safety and efficacy

of Nepafenac Ophthalmic Suspension, 0.3% for improvement in clinical outcomes among diabetic subjects

following cataract surgery

Associate Professor Wilson Heriot

Development of new geographic atrophy in patients who have neovascular (wet) age-related macular

degeneration: a comparison of ranibizumab and aflibercept [CRFB002AAU17]

Associate Professor Wilson Heriot

Orthopaedics Adaption process of patient reported outcomes: an evaluation study Professor Rachelle Buchbinder

Prospective Clinical Outcomes Projects (HIPS) Mr Justin Lade

Paediatric Statewide paediatric observation and response chart Joanne Miller

The feasibility of 2D transperineal ultrasound to assess and measure pelvic floor muscle function in children Dr Janet Chase

Pain management Translation of evidence into pain-management practices in acute care environments Dr Chantal McNally

Patient information Evaluation of the value of electronic health records in Victorian healthcare services Associate Professor

Michele Levinson

Understanding the health information needs of patients hospitalised at Cabrini Professor Rachelle Buchbinder

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Patient Information

continued

Quality of adherence to guideline recommendations for life-saving treatment in heart failure: an international

survey (QUALIFY) [DIM-16257-002]

Dr Jodie-Ann Senior

Real-time patient experience pilot Clare McGinness

Psychiatry Interventional, randomised, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled, flexible-dose, long-term study

to evaluate the maintenance of efficacy and safety of 2 to 3mg/day of brexpiprazole as adjunctive treatment in

patients who have major depressive disorder and an inadequate response to antidepressant treatment

Dr Peter Farnbach

A phase 3, open-label, multicentre, 12-month extension safety and tolerability study of SPD489 in combination

with an antidepressant in the treatment of adults who have major depressive disorder and residual symptoms or

inadequate response following treatment with an antidepressant [SPD489-329]

Dr Peter Farnbach

Psychology Self-compassion and psychological health: the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties Gemma Stephenson

Meaning and purpose (MaP) therapy in advanced cancer: a pilot randomised control trial Professor David Kissane

Understanding the experiences and unmet needs of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer Dr Sue Burney

Refinement and revalidation of the demoralisation scale Professor David Kissane

Breaking down the barriers: examination of the barriers to psychological screening and referral of men with

chronic illness displaying signs of distress

Georgina Wiley

A phase 2, multicentre, double-blind, parallel-group, randomised, placebo-controlled, forced-dose Titration,

dose-ranging efficacy and safety study of SPD489 in combination with an antidepressant in the treatment

of adults who have major depressive disorder and inadequate response to prospective treatment with an

antidepressant [SPD489-209]

Dr Peter Farnbach

Rehabilitation A multidisciplinary rehabilitation program for patients following surgery for colorectal cancer Dr Helena Frawley

Respiratory Large Observational study to UNderstand the Global impact of Severe Acute respiratory FailurE –

LUNG-SAFE study

Dr Jonathan Barrett

Surgery Establishment of a bariatric surgery clinical quality registry Mr Paul Burton

The effect of upper gastrointestinal surgery on inflammatory biomarkers Mr Paul Burton

Supporting ethical research

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Surgery continued Circumferential resection margins after resections of rectal cancer Mr Peter Carne

Surgeon’s survey regarding ICU services Dr Vineet Sarode

The utility of CT colonography in the setting of failed colonoscopy – the Cabrini hospital experience Dr Kenneth Buxey

Progression of Barrett’s Oesophagus to oesophageal cancer Mr Paul Burton

Urology Sepsis following transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy in Victoria: current rate, patterns of care, risk factors and

antibiotic resistance

Mr Jeremy Grummet

A multicentre comparison of return of early urinary continence after robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy in

older men

Mr Daniel Moon

Vascular A phase 3, multicentre, multinational, randomised, double-blind study to evaluate the efficacy and safety

of Belimumab (HGS1006) in combination with Azathioprine for the maintenance of remission in Wegener’s

Granulomatosis and microscopic polyangiitis

Associate Professor Stephen Hall

Women’s Health Application to become a TGA-authorised prescriber of dydrogesterone and micronized progesterone Unknown

A randomised, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo- and active-controlled, multi-centre study to evaluate the

efficacy, safety and tolerability of combinations of solifenacin succinate and mirabegron compared to solifenacin

succinate and mirabegron monotherapy in the treatment of overactive bladder

Dr Anna Rosamilia

Treatment of postmenopausal women with progesterone 100 and 200mg capsules Unknown

Reviewing the use of continuous micronised progesterone as postmenopausal hormone therapy Professor Susan Davis

TVT Abbrevo and MiniArc suburethral sling in women who have stress urinary incontinence – a randomised,

controlled trial

Dr Anna Rosamilia

Hysterectomy or uphold uterine conservation in women who have apical prolapse – a comparative trial Dr Anna Rosamilia

Reducing levator hiatus with a puborectalis sling – a multicentre, randomised, controlled trial Dr Anna Rosamilia

Anterior elevate or laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy in women with post-hysterectomy prolapse – a randomised

controlled trial

Dr Anna Rosamilia

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Publications

Monash Department of Clinical

Epidemiology at Cabrini Hospital

Editorials

Farrell, M, Buchbinder, R and Hall, W 2014, ‘Should doctors

prescribe cannabinoids?’, The BMJ, vol. 348, p. 2737,

DOI:10.1136/bmj.g2737

Handoll, H, Hanchard, N, Lenza, M and Buchbinder, R 2013,

‘Rotator cuff tears and shoulder impingement: a tale of two

diagnostic test accuracy reviews’, Cochrane Database of

Systematic Reviews, issue 10:ED000068

Harris, I and Buchbinder, R 2013, ‘Time to reconsider steroid

injections in the spine?’, Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 199,

no. 4, p. 237

Underwood, M and Buchbinder, R 2013, ‘Red flags for back

pain’, The BMJ, vol. 347, p. 7432, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f7432

Letters to the Editor

Dobson, F, Hinman, RS, Roos, EM, Abbott, JH, Stratford, P,

Davis, A, Buchbinder, R, Snyder-Mackler, L, Henrotin, Y,

Thumboo, J and Bennell, KL 2013, ‘OARSI recommended

performance-based tests to assess physical function

in osteoarthritis of the hip or knee: authors’ reply’,

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, vol. 21, no. 10, pp. 1625-6,

DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2013.07.011

Harris, I and Buchbinder, R 2013, ‘Responses to Letters to

the Editor by Prof Bogduk and Dr Davies. Time to reconsider

steroid injections in the spine?’, Medical Journal of Australia,

vol. 199, no. 11, p. 754, DOI:10.5694/mja13.11159

Hoy, D, March, L, Brooks, P, Blyth, F, Woolf, A, Smith, E

and Buchbinder, R 2014, ‘Response to: Overweight/

obesity and vitamin D deficiency contribute to the global

burden of low back pain by Professor Grant’, Annals of

the Rheumatic Diseases, vol. 73, no. 8, p. 49, doi:10.1136/

annrheumdis-2014-205633

Publications

Buchbinder, R, March, L, Blyth, F, Brooks, P, Woolf, A and

Hoy, D 2013, ‘Placing the global burden of low back pain in

context’, Best Practice and Research Clinical Rheumatology,

vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 575-89, DOI:10.1016/j.berh.2013.10.007

Buchbinder, R, Richards, B and Harris, I 2014, ‘Knee

osteoarthritis and role for surgical intervention: lessons

learned from randomized clinical trials and population-based

cohorts’, Current Opinion in Rheumatology, vol. 26, no. 20,

pp. 138-44, DOI:10.1097/BOR.0000000000000022

Busija, L, Osborne, RH, Roberts, C and Buchbinder, R 2013,

‘Systematic review showed measures of individual burden

of osteoarthritis poorly capture the patient experience’,

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 66, no. 8, pp. 826-37,

DOI:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2013.03.011

Busija, L, Buchbinder, R and Osborne, RH 2013, ‘A grounded

patient-centered approach generated the Personal and

Societal Burden of Osteoarthritis model’, Journal of Clinical

Epidemiology, vol. 66, no. 9, pp. 994-1005, DOI:10.1016/j.

jclinepi.2013.03.012

Chen, JS, Buchbinder, R, Lassere, M and March, L 2014,

‘Comparative effectiveness of anti-tumour necrosis factor

(TNF) drugs on patient reported health-related quality of

life among Australian Rheumatology Association Database

(ARAD) patients with inflammatory arthritis’, Arthritis Care

and Research, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 464-72, DOI: 10.1002/

acr.22151

Ciciriello, S, Buchbinder, R, Osborne, RH and Wicks IP 2014,

‘Improving treatment with methotrexate in rheumatoid

arthritis - development of a multimedia patient education

55program and the MiRAK, a new instrument to evaluate

methotrexate-related knowledge’, Seminars in Arthritis

and Rheumatism, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 437-46, DOI:10.1016/

j.semarthrit.2013.07.009

Cross, M, Smith, E, Hoy, D, Carmona, L, Wolfe, F, Kamalaraj, N,

Vos, T, Williams, B, Gabriel, S, Lassere, M, Buchbinder,

R, Woolf, A and March, L 2014, ‘The global burden of

rheumatoid arthritis: estimates from the Global Burden of

Disease 2010 study’, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, vol.

73, no. 7, pp. 1316-22, DOI:10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204627

Cross, M, Smith, E, Hoy, D, Nolte, S, Ackerman, I, Fransen, M,

Bridgett, L, Williams, S, Osborne, R, Vos, T, Buchbinder, R,

Woolf, A and March, L 2014, ‘The global burden of hip and

knee osteoarthritis: estimates from the Global Burden of

Disease 2010 study’, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, vol.

73, no. 7, pp. 1323-30, DOI:10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204763

Dobson, F, Hinman, RS, Roos, EM, Abbott, JH, Stratford, P,

Davis, A, Buchbinder, R, Snyder-Mackler, L, Henrotin, Y,

Thumboo, J and Bennell, KL 2013, ‘OARSI recommended

performance-based tests to assess physical function in

people with established hip and knee osteoarthritis’,

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, vol. 21, pp. 1042-52,

DOI:10.1016/j.joca.2013.05.002

Gill, TK, Shanahan, EM, Taylor, AW, Buchbinder, R and

Hill, CL 2013, ‘Shoulder pain in the community: A longitudinal

cohort study’, Arthritis Care and Research, vol. 65, no. 12,

pp. 2000-7, DOI:10.1002/acr.22082

Ghogomu, E, Maxwell, LJ, Buchbinder, R, Rader, T,

Pardo, JP, Johnston, R, Christensen, R, Singh, J, Wells, GA,

Tugwell, P and The Editorial Board of the Cochrane

Musculoskeletal Group 2014, ‘Updated method guidelines

for Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group systematic reviews and

meta-analyses’, The Journal of Rheumatology, vol. 41, no. 2,

pp. 194-205, DOI:10.3899/jrheum.121306

Harris, AH, Youd, J and Buchbinder, R 2013, ‘A comparison of

directly elicited and prescored preference-based measures

of quality of life: the case of adhesive capsulitis’, Quality Life

Research, vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 2963-7, DOI:10.1007/s11136-013-

0415-8

Hoy, D, March, L, Woolf, A, Blyth, F, Brooks, P, Smith, E,

Vos, T, Barendregst, J, Blore, J, Murray, C, Burstein, R

and Buchbinder, R 2014, ‘The global burden of neck pain:

estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study’,

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, vol. 73, no. 6, DOI:10.1136/

annrheumdis-2013-204431

Hoy, D, March, L, Brooks, P, Blyth, F, Woolf, A, Bain, C,

Williams, G, Smith, E, Vos, T, Barendregst, J, Murray, C and

Buchbinder, R 2014, ‘The global burden of low back pain:

estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study’,

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 968-74,

DOI:10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204428

Hoy, D, Smith, E, Cross, M, Sanchez-Riera, L, Buchbinder, R,

Blyth, F, Brooks, P, Woolf, A, Osborne, RH, Fransen, M,

Driscoll, T, Vos, T, Blore, J and March, L 2014, ‘The global

burden of musculoskeletal conditions for 2010: an overview

of methods’, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, vol. 73, no. 6,

pp. 982-9, DOI:10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204344

Hoy, DG, Smith, E, Cross, M, Sanchez-Riera, L, Blyth, FM,

Buchbinder, R, Woolf, AD, Driscoll, T, Brooks, P and

March, LM 2014, ‘Reflecting on the global burden of

musculoskeletal conditions: lessons learnt from the Global

Burden of Disease 2010 Study and the next steps forward’,

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, vol. 73, pp. 968 – 974,

DOI:10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-205393

Kent, P, Mirkhal, S, Keating, J, Albert, HB, Buchbinder, R

and Manniche C 2014, ‘The concurrent validity of brief

screening questions for anxiety, depression, social isolation,

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Publications

catastrophization and fear of movement’, The Clinical

Journal of Pain, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 479–89, DOI:10.1097/

AJP.0000000000000010

Kroon, F, Staples, MP, Ebeling, P, Wark, J, Osborne, R,

Mitchell, P, Wriedt, C and Buchbinder, R 2014,

‘Vertebroplasty for osteoporotic vertebral fractures: Two-

year results from a randomized controlled trial’, Journal of

Bone and Mineral Research, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 1346-55

Kroon, F, van der Burg, L, Ramiro, S, Landewé, RBM,

Buchbinder R and van der Heijde, D 2014, ‘Non-steroidal

anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for axial spondyloarthritis

(ankylosing spondylitis and non-radiographic axial

spondyloarthritis) (Protocol)’, Cochrane Database of

Systematic Reviews, issue 1, art. no. CD010952, DOI:

10.1002/14651858.CD010952

Kroon, FPB, van der Burg, LRA, Buchbinder, R, Osborne, RH,

Johnston, RV and Pitt V 2014, ‘Self-management education

programmes for osteoarthritis (Review)’, Cochrane Database

of Systematic Reviews, issue 1, art. no. CD008963, DOI:

10.1002/14651858.CD008963.pub2

Lenza, M, Buchbinder, R, Takwoingi, Y, Johnston, RV,

Hanchard, NCA and Faloppa F 2013, ‘Magnetic resonance

imaging, magnetic resonance arthrography and

ultrasonography for assessing rotator cuff tears in people

with shoulder pain for whom surgery is being considered’,

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, issue 9, art. no.

CD009020, DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009020.pub2

Moi, JHY, Sriranganathan, MK, Edwards, CJ and

Buchbinder, R 2013, ‘Lifestyle interventions for acute gout’,

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, issue 11, art. no.

CD010519, DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010519.pub2

Ng, TS, Bostick, G, Buchbinder, R, Vicenzino, B and

Stirling, M 2013, ‘Laypersons’ expectations of recovery and

beliefs about whiplash injury: A cross-cultural comparison

between Australians and Singaporeans’, European Spine

Journal, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 1234-42, DOI:10.1002/j.1532-

2149.2012.00265.x

Osborne, RH, Batterham, RW, Elsworth, GR, Hawkins, M

and Buchbinder R 2013, ‘The grounded theory, psychometric

development and initial validation of the Health Literacy

Questionnaire’, BMC Public Health, vol. 13, p. 658,

DOI:10.1186/1471-2458-13-658

Palombaro, KM, Black, JD, Buchbinder, R and Jette, DU

2013, ‘Effectiveness of exercise for managing osteoporosis in

women post-menopause’, Physical Therapy, vol. 93, no. 8, pp.

1021-5, DOI:10.2522/ptj.20110476

Rader, T, Pardo, JP, Stacey, D, Ghogomu, E, Maxwell, LJ,

Singh, JA, Buchbinder, R, Légaré, F, Santesso, N,

Winzenberg, T, Tugwell, P and The Editorial Board of

the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group 2014, ‘Knowledge

translation to clinicians and patients: Update of strategies

to translate evidence from Cochrane Musculoskeletal

Group systematic reviews for use by various stakeholders’,

The Journal of Rheumatology, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 206-15,

DOI:10.3899/jrheum.121307

Richards, B, Whittle, S, Buchbinder, R, Barrett, C,

Lynch, N, Major, G, Littlejohn, G, Taylor, A and

Zochling, J 2014, ‘Australian and New Zealand evidenceα

based recommendations for pain management by

pharmacotherapy in inflammatory arthritis’ [published

online ahead of print 30 May], International Journal of the

Rheumatic Diseases, DOI: 10.1111/1756-185X.12388

Silagy, M, O’Bryan, E, Johnston, R and Buchbinder, R

2014, ‘Autologous whole blood and platelet rich plasma

injection for tennis elbow (Protocol)’, Cochrane Database

of Systematic Reviews, issue 2, art. no. CD010951, DOI:

10.1002/14651858.CD010951

Sim, IE, Buchbinder, R and Ebeling, P 2014, ‘Bisphosphonates

for preventing and treating osteoporosis in men (Protocol)’,

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, issue 4, art. no.

CD011074, DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011074

Sivera, F, Andrés, M, Carmona, L, Kydd, A, Moi, J, Seth, R,

Sriranganathan, M, van Durme, C, van Echteld, I, Vinik, O,

Wechalekar, M, Aletaha, D, Bombardier, C, Buchbinder, R,

Edwards, CJ, Landewé, RB, Bijlsma, JW, Branco, JC,

Vargas RB, Catrina, AI, Elewaut, D, Ferrari, AJL, Kiely, P,

Leeb, BF, Montecucco, C, Müller-Ladner, U, Østergaard, M,

Zochling, J, Falzon, L and van der Heijde, DM 2014,

‘Multinational evidence-based recommendations for

the diagnosis and management of gout: Integrating

systematic literature search and expert opinion of a broad

panel of rheumatologists in the 3e initiative’, Annals of the

Rheumatic Diseases, vol. 73, no. 2, pp. 328-35, DOI:10.1136/

annrheumdis-2013-203325

Sivera, F, Wechalekar, MD, Andrés, M, Buchbinder, R and

Carmona, L 2014, ‘Interleukin-1 inhibitors for acute gout

(Review)’, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, issue 9,

art. no: CD009993, DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD009993.pub2

Slade, SC, Patel, S, Underwood, M and Keating, JL 2014,

‘What are patient beliefs and perceptions about exercise for

non-specific chronic low back pain? A systematic review of

qualitative studies’, The Clinical Journal of Pain, vol. 30, no. 11,

pp. 995 – 1005, DOI:10.1097/AJP.0000000000000044

Smith, E, Hoy, D, Cross, M, Naghavi, M, Vos, T,

Buchbinder, R, Woolf, A and March, L 2014, ‘The global

burden of other musculoskeletal disorders: estimates from

the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study’, Annals of the

Rheumatic Diseases, vol. 73, no. 8, pp. 1462-9, doi: 10.1136/

annrheumdis-2013-204647

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Smith, E, Hoy, D, Cross, M, Merriman, TR, Vos, T,

Buchbinder, R, Woolf, A and March L 2014, ‘The global

burden of gout: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease

2010 study’, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, vol. 73, no. 8,

pp. 1470-6, DOI:10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204647

van Echteld, I, Wechalekar, MD, Schlesinger, N,

Buchbinder, R and Aletaha, D 2014, ‘Colchicine for acute

gout (Review)’, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

(in press)

Wall, PDH, Brown, JS, Parsons, N, Buchbinder, R, Costa, ML

and Griffin D 2013, ‘Surgery for treating femoroacetabular

impingement (Protocol)’, Cochrane Database of Systematic

Reviews, issue 11, art. no. CD010796, DOI: 10.1002/14651858.

CD010796.

Weller, C, Buchbinder, R and Johnston, RV 2013,

‘Interventions for helping people adhere to compression

treatments for venous leg ulceration (Review)’, Cochrane

Database of Systematic Reviews, issue 9, art. no. CD008378,

DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD008378.pub2

Cabrini Monash University Department

of Medical Oncology

Publications

Azad, AA, Beardsley, EK, Hotte, SJ, Ellard, SL, Klotz, L,

Chin, J, Kollmannsberger, C, Mukherjee, SD and Chi, KN

2014, ‘A randomised, phase II efficacy and safety study of

vandetanib (ZD6474) in combination with bicalutamide

versus bicalutamide alone in patients with chemotherapy

naïve castration-resistant prostate cancer’ [published online

ahead of print 28 March], Investigational New Drugs, vol. 32,

no. 4, pp. 746-52, DOI:10.1007/s10637-014-0091-8

Cheah, CY, Dickinson, M, Hofman, MS, George, A,

Ritchie, DS, Prince, HM, Westerman, D, Harrison, SJ,

Burbury, K, Wolf, M, Januszewicz, H, Herbert, KE,

Carney, DA, Tam, C and Seymour, JF 2014, ‘Limited clinical

benefit for surveillance PET-CT scanning in patients with

histologically transformed lymphoma in complete metabolic

remission following primary therapy’ [published online ahead

of print 5 March], Annals of Hematology, vol. 93, no. 7, pp.

1193-200, DOI:10.1007/s00277-014-2040-1

Cheah, CY, Hofman, MS, Seymour, JF, Ritchie, DS,

Dickinson, M, Wirth, A, Prince, HM, Wolf, M,

Januszcewicz, EH, Carney, DA, Herbert, KE, Harrison, SJ,

Burbury, KL and Tam, CS 2014, ‘The utility and limitations of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography with

computed tomography in patients with primary mediastinal

B-cell lymphoma: single institution experience and literature

review’ [published online ahead of print 16 June], Leukemia

and Lymphoma, vol. 16, pp. 1-8, DOI:10.3109/10428194.2014.

910656

Cheng, CT, Deitch, JM, Haines, IE, Porter, DJ and

Kilbreath, SL 2013, ‘Do medical procedures in the arm

increase the risk of lymphoedema after axillary surgery?

A review’ [published online ahead of print 26 November],

ANZ Journal of Surgery, vol. 84, nos. 7-8, pp. 510-4,

DOI:10.1111/ans.12474

Coiffier, B, Pro, B, Prince, HM, Foss, F, Sokol, L,

Greenwood, M, Caballero, D, Morschhauser, F,

Wilhelm, M, Pinter-Brown, L, Padmanabhan Iyer, S,

Shustov, A, Nielsen, T, Nichols, J, Wolfson, J, Balser, B and

Horwitz, S 2014, ‘Romidepsin for the treatment of relapsed/

refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma: pivotal study update

demonstrates durable responses’, Journal of Hematology

and Oncology, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 11, DOI:10.1186/1756-8722-7-11.

DeAngelo, DJ, Spencer, A, Bhalla, KN, Prince, HM,

Fischer, T, Kindler, T, Giles, FJ, Scott, JW, Parker, K, Liu, A,

Woo, M, Atadja, P, Mishra, KK and Ottmann, OG 2013,

‘Phase IA/II, two-arm, open-label, dose-escalation study of

oral panobinostat administered via two dosing schedules

in patients with advanced hematologic malignancies’,

Leukemia, vol. 27, no. 8, pp. 1628-36, DOI:10.1038/leu.2013.38

Dumond, JB, Adams, JL, Prince, HM, Kendrick, RL, Wang, R,

Jennings, SH, Malone, S, White, N, Sykes, C, Corbett, AH,

Patterson, KB, Forrest, A and Kashuba, AD 2013,

‘Pharmacokinetics of two common antiretroviral regimens in

older, HIV-infected patients: a pilot study’, HIV Medicine, vol.

14, no. 7, pp. 401-9, DOI:10.1111/hiv.12017

Field, K, Shapiro, J, Wong, H-L, Tacey, M, Nott, L, Tran, B,

Turner, N, Ananda, S, Richardson, G, Jennens, R, Wong, R,

Power, J, Burge, M and Gibbs, P 2014, ‘Treatment and

outcomes of metastatic colorectal cancer in Australia:

defining differences between public and private practice’

Fleming, S, Harrison, SJ, Blombery, P, Joyce, T, Stokes, K,

Seymour, JF, Prince, HM and Ritchie, D 2014, ‘The choice of

multiple myeloma induction therapy affects the frequency

and severity of oral mucositis after melphalan-based

autologous stem cell transplantation’ [published online

ahead of print 15 February], Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma

and Leukemia, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 291-6, DOI:10.1016/j.

clml.2014.02.001

Haines IE 2013, ‘The dilemmas of prostate cancer screening’,

Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 199, no. 9, pp. 582-3,

DOI:10.5694/mja13.10833

Haines, IE and Gabor Miklos, GL 2013, ‘Prostate-specific

antigen screening trials and prostate cancer deaths: the

androgen deprivation connection’, Journal of the National

Cancer Institute, vol. 105, no. 20, pp. 1534-9, DOI:10.1093/jnci/

djt248

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Publications

Haines, IE 2014, ‘The war on cancer: time for a new

terminology’, The Lancet, vol. 383, issue 9932, p. 1883,

DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60907-7

Haines IE 2014, ‘Strategies to help oncologists deliver high-

quality care’, Journal of Clinical Oncology, vol. 32, no. 18, pp.

1977-8, DOI:10.1200/JCO.2014.55.4741

Herbert, KE, Demosthenous, L, Wiesner, G, Link, E,

Westerman, DA, Came, N, Ritchie, DS, Harrison, S,

Seymour, JF and Prince HM, ‘Plerixafor plus pegfilgrastim is

a safe, effective mobilization regimen for poor or adequate

mobilisers of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells: a

phase I clinical trial’ [published online ahead of print 2 June],

Bone Marrow Transplantation, vol. 49, no. 8, DOI:10.1038/

bmt.2014.112

Karapetis, CS, Jonker, D, Daneshmand, M, Hanson, JE,

O’Callaghan, CJ, Marginean, C, Zalcberg, JR, Simes, J,

Moore, MJ, Tebbutt, NC, Price, TJ, Shapiro, JD, Pavlakis, N,

Gibbs, P, Van Hazel, GA, Lee, U, Haq, R, Virk, S, Tu, D and

Lorimer, IA, NCIC Clinical Trials Group and the Australasian

Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group 2014 ‘PIK3CA, BRAF, and

PTEN status and benefit from cetuximab in the treatment of

advanced colorectal cancer – results from NCIC CTG/AGITG

CO.17’, Clinical Cancer Research, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 744-53,

DOI:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-13-0606

Lane, H, Weil, J, Jelinek, GA, Boughey, M, Marck, CH,

Weiland, TJ, Haydon, A and Philip, J 2014, ‘Ideal care and

the realities of practice: interdisciplinary relationships in

the management of advanced cancer patients in Australian

emergency departments’, Supportive Care in Cancer, vol. 22,

no. 4, pp. 1029-35, DOI:10.1007/s00520-013-2054-6

Lomax, A, Wong, H-L, Field, KM, Harold, M, Shapiro, JD,

McKendrick, JJ, Zimet, AS, Yip, D, Nott, LM, Jennens, R,

Richardson, GE, Tie, J, Kosmider, S, Parente, P, Lim, L,

Cooray, P, Tran, B, Desai, J, Wong, R and Gibbs, P 2014,

Prognostic impact of clinicopathological features in

metastatic rectal vs colon cancer’, Journal of Clinical

Oncology, vol. 32, abstract no. e14518 [supplementary

abstract published in conjunction with the 2014 ASCO

Annual Meeting]

Mitchell, PL, Thursfield, VJ, Ball, DL, Richardson, GE,

Irving, LB, Torn-Broers, Y, Giles, GG and Wright, GM 2013,

‘Lung cancer in Victoria: are we making progress?’, Medical

Journal of Australia, vol. 199, no. 10, pp. 674-9, DOI:10.5694/

mja13.10331

Monk, BJ, Poveda, A, Vergote, I, Raspagliesi, F, Fujiwara, K,

Bae, DS, Oaknin, A, Ray-Coquard, I, Provencher, DM,

Karlan, BY, Lhommé, C, Richardson, G, Rincón, DG,

Coleman, RL, Herzog, TJ, Marth, C, Brize, A, Fabbro, M,

Redondo, A, Bamias, A, Tassoudji, M, Navale, L, Warner, DJ

and Oza, AM 2014, ‘Anti-angiopoietin therapy with

trebananib for recurrent ovarian cancer (TRINOVA-1): a

randomised, multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled

phase 3 trial’, The Lancet Oncology, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 799-

808, DOI:10.1016/S1470-2045(14)70244-X

Read, TR, Huson, KL, Millar, JL, Haydon, A, Porter, IW,

Grulich, AE, Hocking, JS, Chen, MY, Bradshaw, CS and

Fairley, CK 2013, ‘Size of anal squamous cell carcinomas

at diagnosis: a retrospective case series’, International

Journal of STD and AIDS, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 879-82

DOI:10.1177/0956462413486776

Richardson, G, Martín, M, Miller, K, Ke, C, Cong, Z and

Braun, A. ‘Response to ‘Dranitsaris, G and Hatzmichael, E

2012, ‘Interpreting results from oncology clinical trials:

a comparison of denosumab to zoledronic acid for the

prevention of skeletal-related events in cancer patients’,

Supportive Care in Cancer, vol. 20, pp. 1353-60, 2014

Ringash, J, Au, HJ, Siu, LL, Shapiro, JD, Jonker, DJ,

Zalcberg, JR, Moore, MJ, Strickland, A, Kotb, R, Jeffery, M,

Alcindor, T, Ng, S, Salim, M, Sabesan, S, Easaw, JC,

Shannon, J, El-Tahche, F, Walters, I, Tu, D and

O’Callaghan, CJ, NCIC Clinical Trials Group and the

Australasian Gastrointestinal Trials Group 2014, ‘Quality of

life in patients with K-RAS wild-type colorectal cancer: the

CO.20 phase 3 randomised trial’, Cancer, vol. 120, no. 2, pp.

181-9, DOI:10.1002/cncr.28410

Siu, LL, Shapiro, JD, Jonker, DJ, Karapetis, CS, Zalcberg, JR,

Simes, J, Couture, F, Moore, MJ, Price, TJ, Siddiqui, J,

Nott, LM, Charpentier, D, Liauw, W, Sawyer, MB, Jefford, M,

Magoski, NM, Haydon, A, Walters, I, Ringash, J, Tu, D

and O’Callaghan, CJ 2013, ‘Phase III, randomised, placebo-

controlled study of cetuximab plus brivanib alaninate

versus cetuximab plus placebo in patients with metastatic,

chemotherapy-refractory, wild-type K-RAS colorectal

carcinoma: the NCIC Clinical Trials Group and AGITG CO.20

Trial’, Journal of Clinical Oncology, vol. 31, no. 19, pp. 2477-84,

DOI:10.1200/JCO.2012.46.0543

Stirling, RG, Evans, SM, McLaughlin, P, Senthuren, M,

Millar, J, Gooi, J, Irving, L, Mitchell, P, Haydon, A, Ruben, J,

Conron, M, Leong, T, Watkins, N and McNeil, JJ 2014, ‘the

victorian lung cancer registry pilot: improving the quality of

lung cancer care through the use of a disease quality registry’

[published online ahead of print 8 June], Lung, DOI10.1007/

s00408-014-9603-8

Wong, HL, Field, KM, Shapiro, JD, McKendrick, JJ and

Gibbs P 2013, ‘Financial incentives in cancer care and impact

on prescribing practice’, Journal of Clinical Oncology, vol. 31,

no. 23, pp. 2973-4, DOI:10.1200/JCO.2013.49.5457

Wright, GM, Thursfield, VJ, Ball, DL, Richardson, GE,

Irving, L, Giles, GG and Mitchell P 2014, ‘Surgical resection

and long-term survival outcome for non-small cell lung

cancer: a comparison of Victorian population-based studies

spanning a decade’, Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology,

vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 75-9, DOI: 10.1111/ajco.12158

59

Wong, H-L, Field, KM, Lomax, A, Tacey, M, Shapiro, JD,

McKendrick, JJ, Zimet, AS, Yip, D, Nott, LM, Jennens, R,

Richardson, GE, Tie, J, Kosmider, S, Parente, P, Lim, L,

Cooray, P, Tran, B, Desai, J, Wong, R and Gibbs, P 2014,

‘Impact of tumour site on bevacizumab (BEV) efficacy in

metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC)’, Journal of Clinical

Oncology, vol. 32, abstract no. e14558 [supplementary

abstact published in conjunction with the 2014 ASCO

Annual Meeting]

Wong, H-L, Field, KM, Shapiro, JD, McKendrick, JJ,

Zimet, AS, Yip, D, Nott, LM, Jennens, R, Richardson, GE,

Lipton, LR, Stefanou, G, Tie, J, Kosmider, S, Parente, P,

Wong, R, Lim, L, Cooray, P, Tran, B, Desai, J and Gibbs, P

2014, ‘Point-of-care capture of clinical interventions for

metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) to develop and validate

novel markers of the quality of cancer care’, Journal of

Clinical Oncology, vol. 32, abstract no. e17637 [supplementary

abstact published in conjunction with the 2014 ASCO

Annual Meeting]

Cabrini Monash University Department of Medicine

Publications

Mills, A, Gellie, A and Levinson, MR 2014, ‘A changing

view of death’, Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical

Humanities, July edition

Presentations

Hutchinson, AM, Ockerby, C, Rawson, H, Mills, A and

Levinson, MR 2013, ‘Resuscitation management plans at

Monash Health – do we have our finger on the pulse?’,

Research Week, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne,

November 2013

Levinson, MR, Mills, A, Stephenson, G, Gellie, A and

Barrett, J 2014, ‘MET and limitations of treatment’, Australian

and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Conference,

Melbourne, Poster July 2014

Levinson, MR, Mills, A, Stephenson, G, Gellie, A and

Barrett, J 2013, ‘Medical emergency team calls and the

writing of do not resuscitate orders’, Cabrini Research Day

2013, Malvern, 23 October

Levinson, MR, Mills, A, Stephenson, G and Gellie, A 2013,

‘Comparison of not for resuscitation (NFR) forms across five

Victorian health services, Cabrini Research Day 2013, Cabrini

Malvern, 23 October

Mills, A, Levinson, MR, Stephenson, G, Nagalingam, V

and Newnham, H 2013, ‘Standard 9: Advance care plans and

resuscitation orders. How do we rate?’, Research Week, The

Alfred, Melbourne, October 2013

Rouse, A and Levinson, MR 2014, ‘How are you? Questions

at the bedside’, International Conference on Conversational

Analysis, UCLA, Los Angeles, 28 June 2013

Stephenson, G, Levinson, MR, Mills, A, Leeuwrik, T and

Gellie, A 2013, ‘ICU and the elderly: Quality of life outcomes’,

49th Australian Association of Gerontology Conference,

Sydney, November 2013

Cabrini Centre for Nursing

Publications

Boyd, L 2014, ‘Exploring the utility of workload models in

academe: a pilot study’, Journal of Higher Education Policy

and Management, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 315-326, DOI:10.1080/015

87919.2014.899050

McManamny, T, Sheen, J, Boyd, L and Jennings, P 2014,

‘Mixed Methods and Its Application in Prehospital Research:

A Systematic Review’, Journal of Mixed Methods Research,

DOI:10.1177/1558689813520408

Presentations

Driver, A, Schlieff, J and Boyd, L 2014, ‘Using the quality

cycle to enhance patient centered care’, World Council of

Enterostomal Therapists (WCET) Conference, Gothenburg,

Sweden, 18 June

Gomez, Y and Seletto, K 2014, ‘A patient centred approach to

the care continuum’, National Nurse Education Conference,

Adelaide, 30 April-2 May Poster Presentation

Gomez, Y and Seletto, K 2014, ‘A strategy to reduce the

incidence of falls in the cancer setting’, National Nurse

Education Conference, Adelaide, 30 April-2 May

Poster Presentation

Johnson, M, Peat, A, Warren, T and Boyd, L 2014, ‘Using

Simulation to meet accreditation and improve patient safety’,

Laerdal Simulation Users Network Conference, Gold Coast,

4 June

Johnson, M, Peat, A, Warren, T and Boyd, L 2014, ‘An

Australian Pilot - Using Simulation for meeting accreditation

and improving patient safety’, New Zealand Association of

Simulation in Healthcare, Christchurch, 21 June

Johnson, M and Boyd, L 2014, ‘Do clinicians detect

empathy from simulated patients? A pilot study’, Sim Health

Conference, Adelaide, 27 August

Lowe, G, Plummer, V and Boyd, L 2013, ‘Staff perceptions

of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner Role’, ICN Nurse

Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nursing Network

Conference, London, UK, 22 August

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Publications

Lowe, G, Plummer, V and Boyd, L 2013, ‘Defining the role,

function and scope of clinical practice of Nurse Practitioners

in Australian healthcare’, ICN Nurse Practitioner/Advanced

Practice Nursing Network Conference, London, UK,

20-22 August Poster Presentation

Lowe, G, Plummer, V and Boyd, L 2013, ‘Role clarity for Nurse

Practitioners’, ICN Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice

Nursing Network Conference, London, UK, 20-22 August

Poster Presentation

Lowe, G, Plummer, V and Boyd, L 2013, ‘Developing

Excellence in Nurse Practitioner Education’, ICN Nurse

Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nursing Network

Conference, London, UK, 20-22 August. Poster Presentation

Rubeli, S 2014, ‘Nurse led MET education: a pilot study’,

National Nurse Education Conference, Adelaide,

30 April-2 May. Poster Presentation

Cabrini Monash University Department of Surgery

Abstracts

Hamid, A, Shapiro, JD, McMurrick, P, Bell, S, Porter, I,

Carne, P and Haydon, AM 2014, ‘Do patients achieving

pathologic complete response (pCR) following neoadjuvant

treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) need

adjuvant chemotherapy?’, Journal of Clinical Oncology,

2014 ASCO Annual Meeting Abstracts, vol. 32, no. 15 (May 20

Supplement), p. 3577

McMurrick, P, Oliva, K, Wilkins, S, Skinner, S, Wale, R,

Ranchod, P, Carne, P, Chin, M, Polgase, A, Bell, S and

Farmer, C 2014, ‘Who dies after bowel cancer surgery?’

ANZ Journal of Surgery, vol. 84, supp. 1, p. 52, DOI: 10.1111/

ans.12652

Theophilus, M, Huang, S, Cui, J, Bell, S and Warrier, S

2014, ‘Colonic Motility is abolished following diverting loop

ileostomy’, ANZ Journal of Surgery, vol. 84, supp. 1, p. 31,

DOI: 10.1111/ans.12652

Conference posters

Loon K, McMurrick, P, Carne, P, Fock, A, Frawley, G and

Polglase, A 2013, ‘Hyperbaric oxygen for anastomotic

complications following ultra-low anterior resection post

chemoradiation’, Cabrini Research Day, Malvern, 23 October

Hamid, A, Shaprio, J, McMurrick, P, Bell, S, Porter, I,

Carne, P and Haydon, A 2013, ‘Do patients achieving

complete pathological response (pCR) following neoadjuvant

treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) need

adjuvant chemotherapy?’, AGITG, Melbourne, October

Hamid, A, Shaprio, J, McMurrick, P, Bell, S, Porter, I,

Carne, P and Haydon, A 2014, ‘Do patients achieving

complete pathological response (pCR) following neoadjuvant

treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) need

adjuvant chemotherapy?’, American Society of Clinical

Oncology, Chicago, USA, June

McMurrick, P, Wilkins, S, Oliva, K, Skinner, S, Wale, R,

Ranchod, P, Carne, P, Chin, M, Polgase, A, Bell, S and

Farmer, C 2014, ‘Who dies after bowel cancer surgery?’,

ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting and RACS Annual Scientific

Conference, Singapore, 5-9 May

Publications

Brierley, GV, Priebe, IK, Purins, L, Fung, KY, Tabor, B,

Lockett, T, Nice, E, Gibbs, P, Tie, J, McMurrick, P,

Moore, J, Ruszkiewicz, A, Burgess, A and Cosgrove, LJ 2013,

‘Serum concentrations of brain-derived neurotrophic factor

(BDNF) are decreased in colorectal cancer patients’, Cancer

Biomarkers, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 67-73, DOI:10.3233/CBM-130345

Fung, KY, Priebe, I, Purins, L, Tabor, B, Brierley, GV,

Lockett, T, Nice, E, Gibbs, P, Tie, J, McMurrick, P,

Moore, J, Ruszkiewicz, A, Burgess, A and Cosgrove, LJ 2013,

‘Performance of serum lipocalin 2 as a diagnostic marker for

colorectal cancer’, Cancer Biomarkers, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 75-79,

DOI:10.3233/CBM-130335

Hall, DJ, Farmer, KC, Roth, HS and Warrier, SK 2014,

‘Transanal endoscopic microsurgery colorectal anastomosis :

a critical step to natural oriface colorectal surgery in humans’,

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 549 – 52,

DOI:10.1097/DCR.0000000000000104

McMurrick, PJ, Oliva, K, Carne, P, Reid, C, Polglase, A,

Bell, S, Farmer, KC and Ranchod, P 2014, ‘The First 1000

Patients on an Internet-Based Colorectal Neoplasia Database

Across Private and Public Medicine in Australia: Development

of a Bi-National Model for the CSSANZ’, Diseases of the

Colon and Rectum, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 167-173, DOI:10.1097/

DCR.0000000000000041

Read, TRH, Vodstreil, L, Grulich, AE, Farmer, C,

Bradshaw, CS, Chen, MY, Tabrizi, S, Hocking, JS,

Anderson, J and Fairley, CK 2013, ‘Acceptability of digital

anal cancer screening examinations in HIV-positive

homosexual men’, HIV Medicine, vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 491-6,

DOI:10.1111/hiv.12035

Presentations

Abud, HE, Kass, L, Jarde, T, Lescesen, H, Staples, M, Oliva, K

and McMurrick, P 2013, ‘Studies on the association of stem

cell markers with colorectal cancer’, Cabrini Research Day,

Malvern, 23 October

Abud, HE, Kass, L, Casagranda, F, Lescesen, H, Staples, M,

Oliva, K, Carne, P, Hime, G and McMurrick, P 2013,

‘Functional studies of the role of DNp73 and stem cells in

cancer’, Monash Comprehensive Cancer Consortium 2013

Research Symposium, Moorabbin, 19 November

61

Bell, S 2013, ‘When is haemorrhoidectomy needed’,

Coalface Updates Meeting, Melbourne, November

Bell, S 2013, ‘Robotic colorectal surgery training and

credentialing’, Australian Gastroenterology Week Robotic

Rectal Dissection, Melbourne, October

Bell, S 2014, ‘Resection of colorectal disease first’, ANZCA

Annual Scientific Meeting and RACS Annual Scientific

Conference, Singapore, 8 May

Carne, P 2013, ‘Parastomal hernia – prevention and

management’, Alfred General Surgery Meeting 2013,

Melbourne, 1 November

Carne, P 2013, ‘Colorectal Surgery’, Epworth Healthcare 10

years of robotic surgery in Australia multidisciplinary robotic

surgery symposium, East Melbourne, 15 November

Carne, P 2013, ‘Robotic colorectal surgery (1) – set up’,

Australian Gastroenterology Week 2013, Melbourne, 8

October

Carne, P 2014, ‘Prevention and repair of parastomal hernias’,

ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting and RACS Annual Scientific

Conference, Singapore, 7 May

Carne, P 2013, ‘Robotic anterior resection’, Colorectal

Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand Spring

Meeting, Surfers Paradise, 12 July

Farmer, C 2013, ‘TEM for rectal malignancies’, Asia Pacific

Federation of Coloproctology, Nanjing, China, September

Farmer, C 2013, ‘Session Four: Difficult problems in General

Surgery’ [session chairman], Alfred Hospital General Surgery

Meeting, Melbourne, 1 November

McMurrick, P 2013, ‘Status update, Binational Colorectal

Neoplasia Database’, Colorectal Spring Meeting, Surfers

Paradise, 11-13 July

McMurrick, P 2013, ‘Bowel Cancer at Cabrini’ [paper],

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA, August

McMurrick, P, Oliva, K, Carne, P, Reid, C, Polglase, A,

Bell, S, Farmer, KC and Ranchod, P 2013, ‘The First 1000

patients on an internet based colorectal database across

private and public medicine in Australia’, Cabrini Research

Day, Malvern, 23 October

McMurrick, P 2014, ‘Binational Colorectal Registry’, ANZCA

Annual Scientific Meeting and RACS Annual Scientific

Conference, Singapore, 7 May

Cabrini Monash Psycho-oncology

Awards

Sloan, E, Brooker, J, Warren, N, Fletcher, J and Burney, S

2013, ‘Finding the Words: Parent-child communication when

a parent has cancer’ [poster presentation], Cabrini Research

Day, 23 October, Prize winner: Best early career researcher

poster.

Publications

Anderson, J, Ricciardelli, L, Burney, S, Frydenberg, M,

Fletcher, J and Brooker, J 2013, ‘Anxiety in men with prostate

cancer treated by active surveillance’, British Journal of

Urology, vol 112 [supplementary abstract published in

conjunction with the Prostate Cancer World Congress,

Melbourne, August 6-10, 2013]

Anderson, J, Burney, S, Brooker, J, Ricciardelli, L,

Fletcher, J, Satasivam, P and Frydenberg, M 2014, ‘Anxiety

in the management of localised prostate cancer by active

surveillance’, British Journal of Urology International, vol. 114,

issue supplement S1, pp. 56-61, DOI:10.1111/bju.12765

Brooker, JE, Fletcher, JM, Dally, M, Briggs, RJS, Cousins, VC,

Malham, GM, Kennedy, RJ, Smee, RI and Burney, S 2013,

‘Factors associated with symptom-specific psychological

and functional impact among acoustic neuroma patients’

[published online ahead of print 19 December], Journal

of Laryngology and Otolaryngology, DOI:10.1017/

S0022215113003216

Chipperfield, K, Brooker, J, Fletcher, J and Burney, S 2013,

‘The impact of physical activity on psychosocial outcomes

in men receiving androgen deprivation therapy for prostate

cancer: A systematic review’ [published online ahead of print

18 November], Health Psychology, DOI:10.1037/hea0000006

Frydenberg, M, Anderson, J, Ricciardelli, L, Burney, S,

Brooker, J and Fletcher, J (2013), ‘Psychological stress

associated with active surveillance for localised low risk

prostate cancer’, The Journal of Urology, vol. 189, no. 4,

abstract no. e548

Hyatt, A, O’Callaghan, C, Dryden, T, Burney, S, Brooker, J,

Wootten, A, Fletcher, J, Frydenberg, M, Murphy, D and

Schofield, P 2013, ‘Australian men with low risk prostate

cancer and their partners’ experience of treatment

decision-making and active surveillance’, British Journal

of Urology, vol 112 [supplementary abstract published in

conjunction with the Prostate Cancer World Congress,

Melbourne, August 6-10, 2013]

O’Callaghan, C, Dryden, T, Hyatt, A, Brooker, J, Burney, S,

Wootten, A, White, A, Frydenberg, M, Murphy, D,

Williams, S and Schofield, P 2014, ‘“What is this active

surveillance thing?” Men’s and partners’ reactions to

treatment decision-making for prostate cancer when

active surveillance is the recommended treatment option’

[published online ahead of print 16 May], Psycho-Oncology,

DOI: 10.1002/pon.3576

62

Publications

Pillay, B, Lee, SJ, Katona, L, Burney, S and Avery, S 2014,

‘Psychosocial factors predicting survival after allogeneic stem

cell transplant’ [published online ahead of print 16 April],

Supportive Care in Cancer, DOI:10.1007/s00520-014-2239-7

Pillay, B, Lee, SJ, Katona, L, Burney, S and Avery, S 2014,

‘Psychosocial factors associated with quality of life in

allogeneic stem cell transplant patients prior to transplant’,

Psycho-Oncology, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 642-49, DOI: 10.1002/

pon.3462

Ventura, AD, Burney, S, Brooker, J, Fletcher, J and

Ricciardelli, L 2014, ‘Home-based palliative care: A systematic

review of the self-reported unmet needs of patients and

carers’, Palliative Medicine, vol. 28, no. 5, pp.391-402,

DOI:10.1177/0269216313511141

Presentations

Beasley, E, Brooker, J, Warren, N, Fletcher, J, Boyle, C

and Burney, S 2013, ‘Story of My Life: An exploration of the

Cabrini Health biography service [poster presentation],

Cabrini Research Day, Melbourne, 23 October

Beasley, E, Brooker, J, Warren, N, Fletcher, J, Boyle, C and

Burney, S 2013, ‘Story of my life: An exploration of the Cabrini

Health biography service (e-poster presentation), Monash

Comprehensive Cancer Consortium Research Symposium,

Melbourne, 19 November

Brooker, J, Shand, L, Burney, S, Fletcher, J and Dally, M

2013, ‘A qualitative exploration of treatment decision-making

among individuals diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma’,

Cabrini Research Day, Melbourne, 23 October

Burney, S 2013, ‘Cabrini Monash Psycho-oncology’, Monash

Comprehensive Cancer Consortium Research Symposium,

Melbourne, 19 November

Burney, S and Fletcher, J 2013, ‘Cabrini Monash Psycho-

oncology: A success story’, Australian Psychological Society,

College of Health Psychologists Networking Dinner,

Melbourne, 10 July

Burney, S and Fletcher, J 2013, ‘When cure is not possible:

end of life issues’, Mental Health Professionals Network –

Psycho-oncology Group, Cabrini, 5 December

Fletcher, J 2013, ‘Anxiety and breast cancer’, BreaCan,

Melbourne, 11 July

Fletcher, J 2013, ‘Dealing with side-effects: Long term

implications of treatment’, Trainee peer support volunteers,

BreaCan, Melbourne, 6 August

Fletcher, J 2013, ‘Living with the effects of breast cancer,

BCNA Summit – Plenary, Sydney, 9 August

Fletcher, J 2013, ‘The support group rollercoaster’, BCNA

Summit – Workshop, Sydney, 9 August

Fletcher, J 2013, ‘Screening and assessment’, Psychosocial

aspects of palliative care course, Melbourne, 19 September

Fletcher, J 2013, ‘Hypothetical panel member’, Southern

Melbourne Cancer Forum, Melbourne, 3 October

Fletcher, J 2013, ‘Coping with Change’, Young Ostomates

United, Melbourne, 10 October

Fletcher, J 2013, ‘The emotional impact of breast cancer’,

BCNA Forum, Albury Wodonga, 24 October

Fletcher, J2013, ‘The emotional impact of breast cancer’,

BCNA Forum, Tamworth, 14 November

Fletcher, J 2013, ‘Living with Cancer Education Program –

Emotions and cancer’, Think Pink Living Centre, Melbourne,

25 November

Fletcher, J 2013, ‘The emotional impact of breast cancer’,

BCNA Forum, Flemington Racecourse, 5 December

Fletcher, J 2013, ‘The emotional impact of breast cancer’,

BCNA Forum, Mt Isa, 21 March

Fletcher, J 2013, ‘Managing uncertainty and maintaining

hope’, Ovarian Cancer Australia, Mercy Hospital,

Melbourne, 22 July

Shand, L, Ricciardelli, L, Fletcher, J, Brooker, J and Burney, S

2013, ‘Factors associated with psychological wellbeing in

women with ovarian cancer’ [poster presentation], Cabrini

Research Day, Melbourne, 23 October

Sloan, E, Brooker, J, Warren, N, Fletcher, J and Burney, S

2013, ‘Finding the Words: Parent-child communication

when a parent has cancer’ [e-poster presentation], Monash

Comprehensive Cancer Consortium Research Symposium,

Melbourne, 19 November

Allied Health Research Unit

Publications

Brusco, NK, Taylor, NF, Watts, JJ and Shields, N 2014,

‘Economic evaluation of adult rehabilitation: a systematic

review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

in a variety of settings’, Archives of physical medicine

and rehabilitation, vol. 95, no. 1, pp. 94-116, DOI:10.1016/j.

apmr.2013.03.017.

Palmer, K, Thomas, J and Mudge, S 2014, ‘Activity patterns in

people with neurological conditions’, New Zealand Journal of

Physiotherapy, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 9-15.

Presentations

Brusco, NK 2013, ‘Return to work following inpatient

rehabilitation’, 9th World Congress on Health Economics,

Sydney, 10 July

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Brusco, NK 2014, ‘Are weekend rehabilitation services value

for money?’, Victorian Allied Health Research Conference,

Melbourne, 28 March

Brusco, NK 2014, ‘Factors that Predict Discharge Destination

for Patients in a Transition Care’, Program 3rd Annual

Transition Care Conference: Improving Outcomes for Older

People, Melbourne, 29 May

Frawley, HC, Chiarelli, P, Gunn J 2013, ‘An investigation of

the barriers to implement continence screening and pelvic

floor muscle training guidelines in primary maternity care’,

Australian Physiotherapy Association National Conference,

Melbourne, 18 October [Awarded Best Abstract]

Frawley, HC 2013, ‘Physiotherapy for pelvic organ prolapse:

the POPPY Australia experience’, Australian Physiotherapy

Association National Conference, Melbourne, 20 October

Frawley, HC, Chiarelli, P, Gunn, J 2013, ‘Implementing

pelvic floor muscle training clinical practice guidelines: a

translational research experience’ Australian Physiotherapy

Association National Conference, Melbourne, 20 October

Frawley, HC 2013, ‘Pelvic organ prolapse: conservative

therapy should be the first line of management: “For”’,

Continence Foundation of Australia Annual Meeting: 22nd

National Conference on Incontinence, Perth, 25 October

Frawley, HC 2013, ‘Implementing pelvic floor muscle

training clinical practice guidelines: a translational research

experience’, Continence Foundation of Australia Annual

Meeting: 22nd National Conference on Incontinence, Perth,

24 October

Frawley, HC 2013, ‘Findings from recent research: ICS

members and RCT participants have their say on adherence’,

Continence Foundation of Australia National Meeting, Perth,

23 October

Frawley, HC 2014, ‘Can pelvic floor muscle training stop or

reverse pelvic organ prolapse?’, Urogynaecological Society of

Australasia Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, 28 March

Frawley, HC 2013, ‘Pelvic floor pain: where visceral and

somatic collide’, Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australian and New

Zealand College of Anaesthetists Spring Meeting, Byron Bay,

26 October

Frawley, HC 2013, ‘Physiotherapy Management of Chronic

Pelvic Pain’, Women’s and Children’s Hospital Research

Symposium, Singapore, 20 August

Higgins, RO 2013, ‘Randomised controlled trial of a

secondary prevention group programme to reduce

depression in patients with coronary heart disease’,

Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation

Association Annual Conference, Melbourne, 13 August

Higgins, RO, Kerr, D, Murphy, BM, Jobling, K, Lau, P and

Jackson, A 2014, ‘Depression and chronic disease self-

management in urban Aboriginal people: service providers’

perspectives’, Australasian Society for Behavioural Health and

Medicine Conference, Auckland, 13 February

Rogerson, M, Higgins, RO, Murphy, BM, Barker, L, Butler, M

and Jackson, A 2014, ‘Translation of evidence to practice:

Development of ‘help yourself online’- a lifestyle program

to support cardiac patients’ self-management’, Australasian

Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine Conference,

Auckland, 14 February

Murphy, BM, Higgins, RO, Holloway, E, Page, K and

Jackson, A 2014, ‘Supporting emotional recovery to beat the

cardiac blues: translational research in action’, Australasian

Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine Conference,

Auckland, 14 February

McCaskie, D, Douglas, D, McLaughlin, E 2014, ‘Exploring

Australian practice in treating central facial paresis’, Speech

Pathology Australia National Conference: Connections

Client-Clinician-Context, Melbourne, 21 May.

Morrison, S 2013, ‘Male Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome;

a physiotherapy clinical audit’, Australian Physiotherapy

Association National Conference, Melbourne, 19 October

Morrison, S 2013, ‘A clinical reasoning approach to pre-

prostatectomy pelvic floor assessment and management’,

World Prostate Cancer Conference, Melbourne, 8 August

Morrison, S 2014, ‘Pre and Post Prostatectomy - pelvic

floor muscle assessment and rehabilitation’, Continence

Foundation of Australia Victorian State Conference, Geelong,

30 May

Radia-George, C, Imm, C, Taylor, N 2013, ‘Inter-rater

reliability and clinical utility of the Personal Care Participation

Assessment and Resource Tool in sub acute inpatient

rehabilitation’, Occupational Therapy Australia National

Conference, Adelaide, 26 July

Radia-George, C, Haines, B 2013, ‘Wheelchair prescription

in a subacute setting: a gap analysis’, Occupational Therapy

Australia National Conference, Adelaide, 26 July

Vonier, C 2013, ‘Cardiac rehabilitation in the private

health sector; implementing best practice’, Australian

Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association Annual

Conference, Melbourne, 12 August

Vonier, C 2013, ‘Cardiac rehabilitation in the private health

sector: implementing best practice’, 9th Annual National

Disease Management Conference, Sydney, 23 August

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Professor Lawrence St Leger

Member since July 2004,

Chair February 2007 until May 2014

Lawry has been Chair of Cabrini Institute since February

2007. He is a former Dean of Health Sciences at Deakin

University and is widely published. Lawry has been

commissioned by international authorities, such as the

World Health Organization, to write evidence-based

guidelines for school health promotion and education,

which have been published in many languages. He advises

governments, non-government organisations and

community agencies on effective ways to build the health

and wellbeing of young people.

Jennifer Burden

Invitee since November 2005

Jennifer is Manager of the Cabrini Institute. In 2005,

she joined Cabrini bringing 20 years of experience and

a Bachelor of Science from Deakin University. Her role

includes organising annual Research Day and liaising with

donors who support the research work of Cabrini Institute

and fund education scholarships available annually to

Cabrini staff. Jennifer’s background includes roles as a

medical researcher and clinical scientist.

Judith Day

Member since January 2006

Judith is a Certified Practising Accountant and has a

Master of Business Administration from the University of

Adelaide. Judith has almost two decades of experience

in the health sector. Previously, she was Director of

Finance and Administration at St Andrew’s Hospital in

Adelaide. Prior to that, she worked in various roles at

Faulding Healthcare, Flinders Medical Centre and Ashford

Community Hospital.

The Cabrini Institute Council is responsible for developing, supporting and promoting the clinical education

and research activities of Cabrini. It has 11 members and three invitees. The group brings a broad range of

clinical and managerial experience to the Cabrini Institute Council’s governance role.

Cabrini Institute Council

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Sue James

Invitee since July 2010

Sue is responsible for the strategic development of the

Cabrini Foundation’s philanthropic fundraising to support

the work of Cabrini. Sue has worked in the not-for-profit

sector in fundraising, marketing and communication

roles. Sue is committed to the ongoing professional

development of fundraisers and has presented at both

national and State professional development conferences.

She is a Fellow of the Fundraising Institute of Australia.

Professor Gerald Farrell

Member since November 2007

Gerald was Head of the School of

Nursing and Midwifery and Associate Dean, Faculty of

Health Sciences, La Trobe University from 2006-10. He

is a fellow of the Australian College of Mental Health

Nurses and was Inaugural Director of Research for the

College from 1995-2002. Gerald contributes to scholarly

debate in nursing through his research, publications and

conference presentations, which have been recognised

nationally and internationally. His research focuses on

workplace relationships and staff-client interactions

around challenging behaviours.

Professor Peter Fuller

Member since June 2005

Chair from May 2014

Peter is National Health and Medical Research Council

Senior Principal Research Fellow at Prince Henry’s

Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne where he

is Associate Director and Head of the Steroid Receptor

Biology Group. He is Director of the Endocrinology Unit

at Monash Health and Adjunct Professor in Medicine and

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University.

Peter’s research interests include understanding the

molecular mechanisms of adrenal steroid hormone action

and the molecular pathogenesis of endocrine tumours.

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Kellie-Ann Jolly

Member since September 2012

Kellie-Ann Jolly began her professional career as a dental

therapist in the School Dental Service. A Postgraduate

Diploma in Health Promotion followed by a Masters in

Health Sciences (Health Promotion) led to her move into

health promotion where she has remained. She has been

senior policy advisor with the Victorian Department of

Health, tertiary lecturer in health promotion, and Director

Physical Activity and Healthy Eating at the Victorian

Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth). Since August

2008, Kellie-Ann has been the Director Cardiovascular

Health at the Heart Foundation (Victoria). She is current

Chair of the not-for-profit organisation Victoria Walks.

Associate Professor Doug Lording

Member since September 2008

Doug is an endocrinologist and andrologist in private

practice at Cabrini. From 1992-2007, he was Medical

Director at Cabrini. His specialities include diabetes,

general endocrinology and male reproductive medicine.

Doug has extensive clinical trial experience and is an

Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at

Monash University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian

College of Physicians, a Board member of Andrology

Australia and a member of the scientific advisory

committee for Foundation 49: Men’s Health.

Associate Professor Peter Lowthian

Invitee since February 2002

Since 2002, Peter has been Executive Director of the

Cabrini Institute and in 2013, he also took on executive

responsibility for clinical governance at Cabrini. He is

a practising rheumatologist and a graduate of Monash

University. Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian

College of Physicians, of the Australian Faculty of

Rehabilitation Medicine, of the Royal College of

Physicians London and of the Royal Australian College

of Medical Administrators.

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Jeremy McCarthy

Member since February 2007

Jeremy is a partner at national law firm, HWL Ebsworth

in its mergers and acquisitions group in Melbourne. He

has extensive experience in corporate governance and

general commercial matters and has drafted a broad

range of commercial contracts. Jeremy advises clients in a

range of industries, in particular the health sector.

Professor Robyn O’Hehir

Member since November 2010

Robyn is Professor and Director of Allergy, Immunology

and Respiratory Medicine, The Alfred and Central Clinical

School, Monash University, Melbourne. She is the Deputy

Head (Clinical), Central Clinical School, Monash University

and Deputy Head Research, Alfred Health. Robyn is a

consultant physician, educator and researcher in allergy

and anti-inflammatory therapies and has won substantial

grant support from the National Health and Medical

Research Council. She is editor of the international journal

Clinical and Experimental Allergy, and is a Life Governor of

Asthma Victoria. Robyn is a current member of Council of

the Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Foundation. She serves

on the Cabrini Institute Council.

Associate Professor John Santamaria

Member since August 1996

John is the Director of St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne’s

intensive care unit. He is National and State President of

the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society.

John is Chair of the Cabrini Health Ethics Committee and

is a member of the Cabrini Patient Experience and Clinical

Governance Committee. John was a member of the

Cabrini Board of Directors for many years and served as

Vice Chairman from September 2005-October 2009.

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Professor Robert Thomas OAM

Member since November 2007

Robert is Chief Cancer Advisor to the Victorian

Department of Health. He was the foundation Chair of

Surgery at the Western Hospital University of Melbourne

and Director of Surgical Oncology at Peter MacCallum

Cancer Centre. Robert created the surgical oncology

group within the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons,

has served as Editor-in-Chief of the ANZ Journal of

Surgery and has chaired National Health and Medical

Research Council panels.

Dr Michael Walsh

Member since December 2008

Michael has more than 25 years’ experience

in hospital and health administration in Australia, the

UK and the Middle East. He is a medical graduate of

Monash University and holds a Master’s Degree in Public

Administration from the Kennedy School of Government,

Harvard University. Michael is a Fellow and current Vice

President of the Royal Australasian College of Medical

Administrators. Also, he is a Fellow of the Australasian

College of Health Service Managers. Michael is a

member of the Catholic Health Australia Stewardship

Board and he chairs the Health Policy Sub-Committee.

Michael serves on Australia’s Independent Hospital

Pricing Authority Board.

Professor Neville Yeomans

Member since February 2010

Neville is Director of Research at Austin Health and

Emeritus Professor of Medicine (previously Foundation

Dean) in the School of Medicine, University of

Western Sydney. He is a gastroenterologist and a

fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians,

American College of Gastroenterology and American

Gastroenterological Association. Neville’s research has

been mainly into the biology and pathology of the gastric

mucosa, pharmacology of acid-related diseases and

recently, medical education.

Cabrini Institute Council

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CABRINI SUPPORTERS

Founding Institute Donors

Cabrini Hospital

Cabrini Hospital Medical Staff

Cabrini Pharmacy

Construction Engineering (Aust) Pty Ltd

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

CWB Australia Ltd

The Gandel Charitable Trust

Dr Romayne Holmes

The Jackson Family

Melbourne Pathology

Dr Frank Panetta

Mr Denzil & Mrs Sylvia Pinto

The Polglase Family

Radclin Medical Imaging

Safetell International

Schering Australia Pty Ltd

Tattersall’s, The Estate of the Late George Adams

Drs Victor & Karen Wayne

In Memory of Sir Edward Hughes

In Memory of Mavis Lord

In Memory of Esther Barouh

The Judy Reddoch Breast Cancer Fund

Companions

AMP Foundation

Aventis Pharma Pty Ltd

Mr John Gandel AO & Mrs Pauline Gandel

Mr Ian & Mrs Linda Gandel

Ms Michelle Gandel

Mr Tony & Mrs Helen Gandel

Heartbeat Cabrini Inc.

Mr Alan Jackson AO & Mrs Esme Jackson

Alan Jackson Nursing Research Fellow

Mr John Laidlaw OAM & Mrs Betty Laidlaw

Mr David Mandie AM OBE

Pfizer Australia Pty Ltd

The Moniek Sambor Family Memorial Research Fund

The Sambor Family

The Simonds Family

The Stewardson Charitable Trusts

Mr George & Mrs Mira Szalmuk – Szalmuk Family Department of Medical Oncology

Mrs Simone Singer-Szalmuk

Mr Geoff Szalmuk

Mrs Anne Wollach-Szalmuk

Dr David & Mrs Lisa Thurin

Dr Charles William (Bill) Edgar Wilson

Windermere Foundation

Cheryl M Windsor

Frőhlich West Joseph & Frőhlich West Helena

Frőhlich West Chair of Surgery

Partners

Cabrini Medical Staff

Bensons Group of Companies

Construction Engineering (Aust) Pty Ltd

Marc & Bev Fookes

Charles Holckner & Family – In Memory of Lily

HD & KM Johnston

Jreissati Foundation

Mr David & Mrs Barbara MacDonald

The McMurrick Family

Mr & Mrs Mark Newman

Richard & Dorothea Nossbaum

Ostomy Association of Melbourne Inc

Nigel Peck AM & Patricia Peck

Alan, Ahda & Evi Selwyn Family

Fellows

Associated Retailers Limited

The Bachrach Charitable Trust

In Memory of Jan Bucknall

The Michael & Andrew Buxton Foundation

Charter Security Group

The Fryer Family

Mr & Mrs Higgins

Mrs Kerrie Hunter & Family

Mrs Dinah Krongold & Family

Dr Laurence LeWinn Foundation

Angus Mackay

Peter Meese Cancer Nursing Fund

Kylie Minogue OBE

Richard & Susan Mizgala

Frank O’Shea OAM

The Family of Duncan Powers

In Memory of Marlene Regan

The Sasse Family

Signorino Family

Victor Smorgon Charitable Fund

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David & Chasya Tamir

Michael & Donna Tricarico & Family

Susan Kavals Memorial

Mr Louis Managan AO & Cecile Mangan

Benefactors

Amgen Australia Pty Ltd

AON Risk Services Australia

Beaconsfield & de Winter Families

Bib Stillwell BMW

W & G Bradshaw Trust

Chris Chadwick

Collier Charitable Fund

Commonwealth Bank of Australia – Corporate Financial Services Vic & Tas

The De Luca Family

David & Kristene Deague

The Alfred & Jean Dickson Foundation

Mr Andrew C Facey

Mr Geoff & Mrs Lesley Freeman

Mr John Grossi

Herschel Asset Management Limited

Mr Russell Hutchinson

Des & Cheri Jackson

Jack & Sheila Jenner

Kay & Burton Pty Ltd

Eleanor Keamy & George Tate

Mrs Judith Lang & The Gideon Lang Foundation

Helen Macpherson Smith Trust

Mr Colin & Mrs Jannene Madden

The Matthey Family

Alison McElroy

Ron & Valerie McLaughlan

Merrin Foundation

MIA Victoria

Doris Mohl OAM

John Allison Monkhouse

Mr Hugh Morgan AC & Mrs Elizabeth Morgan

Mr Patrick Nalty

The O’Donohue Family

Pharmacia Australia Pty Limited

Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia

Elinor Rabinov

Gary Richardson

Roche Products Pty Ltd

Irvin Rockman CBE

In Memory of Mrs Bella Rogers

Rotary Club of Brighton

Rotary Club of Malvern

The Late John Saunders AO

Margaret Savill

Mr & Mrs P Selzer & Family

Smith & Nephew Pty Limited

The Brian Smith Endowment

June F.M. Smith

Margery E Snowball

Sotheby’s Australia

Spooner Family

G & K Stansen

Mr Brian J Sutton FRCNA

Tattersall’s, The Estate of The Late George Adams

Mr Stewart & Mrs Ingrid Webster

Yarra Valley Travel

The Sanford Partnership

Sanofi-Sythelabo Australia Pty Ltd

Patrons

Advanced Biomedical Pty Ltd

Dr Ron & Mrs Elizabeth Alder

ANZ Charitable Trusts

Aquanita Racing

Eric Ormond Baker Charitable Fund

Anthony & May Barry

Ron Bunker & Evelyn Abaya

Reginald & Audrey Campbell

Caravan Industry Australia Victoria Trades Division

Estate of Mrs Margaret Cochrane OAM

Naja David & Family

Dr Bruce & Mrs Pat Davis

Downie Family

Mr & Mrs Wal Edgar & Family

Fried & Sable Families

The Marian & E H Flack Trust

Mr W & Mrs M Frost

Mr Michael & Mrs Helen Gannon

Brian Goddard

In Memory of Margaret Goddard

Eli & Kerry Goldfinger

Grenda Foundation

Dorothy Haines

In Memory of Jade Howell

The Hall Family

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The Geoff & Helen Handbury Foundation

The George Hicks Foundation

The Irvine Club Inc

Jacobs Thomas & Associates

Dr Sharon Keeling

Mr Doug Kefford AO

Langton’s Pty Ltd

Lynette & Kevin Lee

Mrs Barbara J Lewis

The Lochtenberg Family

Jeff Loewenstein

Lord Mayor’s Charitable Fund

The Lowthian Family

The Valda Klaric Foundation

Andy Lyas

Christopher Marriott

In Memory of Mr Chor-Kim Ng

Medtronic Australasia Pty Ltd

The Mezo Family

Barry & Beatrice Moignard Charitable Trust

Montague Group

Moore Stephens Melbourne Pty Ltd

Paul Mullaly QC

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd

Richard (Frederick) O’Brien

Bruce Parncutt & Robin Campbell

Paulusz Family Foundation

Proclaim Management Solutions Pty Ltd

Ramler Family

Mr & Mrs Anthony Reeves

John Reeves

Mr Benedict J Roche

Denis Roche

Drs Sue & Phil Ronaldson

Rotary Club of Chadstone/East Malvern

Rotary Club of Brighton Charitable Foundation

Peter & Barbara Shearer

Mrs Maggie Christin Shipp

Mr John Sircom & Mrs Helen Sircom

Alexander Slade

In Memory of Marjorie Smith

Mr Daryl Somers OAM & Mrs Julie Somers OAM

In Memory of Margaret Roff Sutton

Mrs Valma Truin

Barbara Tucker

The Wallis Family

Marie & John Warnock

In Memory of Suzanne Vass

Pat Wilkinson

Associates

Pellicano Group

Mr Phillip Allan

Pat & Sheril Aughterson

Mr Nick & Miss Angela Baldi

Bluey Day Foundation

Mr & Mrs G & J Brown

John Christopherson

In Memory of Ignatius Paul Cini

Cobram Barooga Golf Club Veterans Club

Mrs Maureen Coomber

Mrs Margaret Coningsby

In Memory of Graham Coningsby

In Memory of Ron & Joan Davies

Barbara Dicker

In Memory of Nereo Dizane

Mary Drenen

Mrs Susie Edwards & Family

Sylvia Falzon

Dr James Gardiner

John Graham

Mr & Mrs Geoffrey A Grant

Ken & Margaret Grenda

P & M Harbig (Holdings) Pty Ltd

Edward Hauser OBE

John Higgins

Jean & Ern Ireland – Sea Bee Pty Ltd

Jack & Karen Joel & Family

The Jonson Family

Mr Andrew Lindsay

Joan Loton

Mr & Mrs Simon & June Lubansky

Douglas Mackenzie

In Memory of Stewart Maxted

Ron & Fay Malouf

In Memory of Leigh Masel

Desmond W Milner

In Memory of Judtih Moir

Richard Mole

R M Morgan AM

E. Morris

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In Memory of Brian O’Sullivan

In Memory of Maxwell Charles Parsons

In Memory of Ann Ryan

Mrs Irene Reich

Ralph & Ruth Renard

Richard & Ros Rogers

William Sexton

Yvonne Spencer

The Springwaters Foundation

Jean St Leger Educational Scholarship

Mr & Mrs Frank & Heather Stewart

The Strachan Family

Mr Bernard Sweeney

Geoffrey H Thomas

Leonie Thompson

Joan Roderick Thomson

B & A Wain

Peter Wain & Family

Mr Max Walters

Mr Choo Keng Wee & Mrs Beverley Anne Wee

In Memory of Mr John Whitbread

Bequests

In Memory of Claire Abrahams

Estate of Ellen M Balderstone

Estate of Carmel Mary Blanton

Mrs Ann Brewer

Estate of Rosina Violet Brown

Estate of Annie Marjorie May Clarke

The Estate of David Roy Cross

Rino Della Bosca

Estate of Nance Nevasa Buchanan

Roger John Cleary

Estate of Barbara Feil

Estate of John Robert Edwards

Estate of Harold Francis

Estate of U M Frawley

Estate of Dorothy Cecelia Garbutt

Estate of John Sutherland Hamling

Estate of Pamela Mary Harper

Estate of Noel Arthur Hatherly

Estate of Mary Kathleen Hauser

Estate of Doris Mary Hawkless

The Estate of Rita Mae Hunt

Estate of Valda Irene Keil

Estate of Irene Kozica

Estate of Otto Kraus

Estate of Robert Mackey

In Memory of Mrs Katherine Jane Mactier

Rita Anversa Magris

Estate of Brian Charles Mander

Estate of Katherine Mander

Estate of June Masson

In Memory of Hubert Frances & Margaret Mary McCarthy

Estate of Marjorie May Murdoch

Estate of Rex Oxnam

Estate of Leslie Charles Parkinson

Estate of Russell Pitt

Estate of Lindsay G Quinn

Estate of William Clifford (Peter) Rawlins

Estate of Alexander Graeme Robertson

The Estate of Anthony Carmel Saccasan

Estate of Grace Saunders

Mrs E C Seccull

Estate of Leslie Alfred Shapland

Estate of Maria (Lina) Concetta Sinelli

Bella Taft

Estate of Hugh L Wallace

Estate of Wilma Elsa White

Estate of Betty Geddes Wood

The Estate of Vica Vitea Yavitch

In Memorials

Christopher Bedelis

Patricia Boxall

John William Clapham

Kevin Elias

Walter Lyle Fish

Amelia Fuller

Kerrie Hunter

Patricia Janes

Stephen Kelly

Dr Angela Marks

Christine Potts

Joyce Reed

In Memory of Richard John Savill

Kevin & Patricia Speer

In Memory of George & Mira Szalmuk – The Szalmuk Family

Charlotte Tait

Geoffrey Robin Westacott

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CABRINI INSTITUTE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS

Cabrini Monash University Department of Surgery

The Frohlich West Chair of Surgery

Head: Associate Professor Paul McMurrick

Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Cabrini Hospital

Head: Professor Rachelle Buchbinder

Cabrini Monash University Department of Medical Oncology

The Szalmuk Family Department of Medical Oncology

Head: Associate Professor Gary Richardson

Cabrini Monash University Department of Medicine

Head: Associate Professor Michele Levinson

Cabrini Centre for Nursing Research and Education

Head: Associate Professor Leanne Boyd

SPONSOR RECOGNITION

Research Day 20136

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CABRINI MISSION

Who we are: We are a Catholic healthcare service inspired

by the spirit and vision of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini and

the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

What we believe: We are a community of care, reaching

out with compassion, integrity, courage and respect to all

we serve.

What we do: We provide excellence in all of our services

and work to identify and meet unmet needs.

CABRINI VALUES

Our values form the base of our mission, are built around

what we believe and drive how we act. They are drawn

from Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini’s life and reflect her

heart, her spirit, her conviction and her approach.

Compassion: Our drive to care is not just

a professional duty to provide excellent quality care

but is born of a heartfelt compassion for those in need,

motivated by God’s love for all people.

Integrity: We believe in the power of hope to transform

people’s lives and remain faithful to the bold healing

mission and legacy of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini.

Courage: We have the strength, determination, vision and

conviction to continue the work of Saint Frances Xavier

Cabrini and the Missionary Sisters.

Respect: We believe that every person is worthy of the

utmost respect and the best possible healthcare. We

know that our resources are entrusted to us to use for the

benefit of others.

THE CABRINI INSTITUTE MISSION

The Cabrini Institute is committed to improving the

clinical outcomes of patients of Cabrini. It embraces the

mission, values and vision of Cabrini and works within an

ethical framework. The Cabrini Institute has a vital role in

helping Cabrini to achieve its vision – that is:

“By understanding and addressing the needs of our

community, we will grow by learning – by researching

and continuously improving the quality of our care and by

motivating staff committed to our healthcare mission

to provide excellence in all of our services . . . we will

enhance health and quality of life by working with our

patients and their families to anticipate, prevent and

ease suffering.”

CABRINI INSTITUTE COUNCIL

Professor Lawrence St Leger (Chair)

Jennifer Burden (invitee)

Judith Day

Professor Gerald Farrell

Professor Peter Fuller

Sue James (invitee)

Associate Professor Doug Lording

Associate Professor Peter Lowthian (invitee)

Jeremy McCarthy

Professor Robyn O’Hehir

Associate Professor John Santamaria

Professor Robert Thomas OAM

Dr Michael Walsh

Professor Neville Yeomans

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