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2009

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$828,639

Limited Budget Support - $41,000

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
Dr Anita Sumpter
Milrinone dosing in paediatric cardiac intensive care
$20,000
Dr Heather Spinetto
To research and document the history and contribution of nursing within the Green Lane Hospital CTSU from the time of the first bypass surgery until the transfer to Auckland City Hospital
$21,000

Project Support - $183,343

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
Dr Nigel Wilson
Prevalence of rheumatic heart disease in students from a low-risk NZ population
$33,343
Dr Simon Mitchell
Contribution to purchase of a EDAC sonar bubble counter
$20,000
Dr Mark Webster
ISAR-SAFE: An investigator-initiated, randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled non-inferiority trial, comparing clopidogrel given for 6 months following drug-eluting stent deployment to clopidogrel for 12 months
$85,000
Dr Ralph Stewart
Vasodilators in aortic regurgitation
$45,000

Senior Fellowship - $80,270

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
Dr Nigel Wilson
Part-time salary support for several projects concerning rheumatic heart disease in children and international echocardiography standardisation of RHD
$80,270

PhD Scholarship - $105,000

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
Dr Paul Sexton
Airways disease, obesity and the metabolic syndrome complications following cardiac surgery?
$105,000

Centennial Travel Award: Nurses, Technical and Paramedical Staff - $5,000

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
Mr Shuja Zahidani
Attendance at the Cardiac Morphology Course in London
$5,000

Mornington Brennan Nurses Scholarship - $0

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
No Mornington Brennan Nurses Scholarship was awarded in 2009

Travel/Conference Support - $70,505

Principle Investigator
International Conferences
Domestic Conferences
Senior Registrar Travel Award
$15,000
Medical (only for those who do not receive CME)
$1,300
Nursing /Technical /Paramedical
$45,617
$8,588

Salary Support - $272,232

John Neutze Scholarship
Professor Harvey White

Other Salary Support

Administrative Support
Irene Zeng/Mildred Lee (Biostatistics), Barbara Semb (Research Support), Joshua Washington/Charlene Nell (Cardiovascular Research Unit)

Restricted Funds released

Prof Brian Anderson

Author: Prof Brian Anderson and co-authors
Description: Characterisation of the pharmacokinetics of routine prophylactic antibiotics in order to improve dosing regimens when given to children undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass surgery
A pharmacokinetic framework describing antibiotic adsorption to cardiopulmonary bypass devices

Dr Anita Sumpter

Author: Conor J. O’Hanlon, Anita Sumpter Brian J. Anderson
Description: Milrinone dosing in paediatric cardiac intensive care
Time‑Varying Clearance in Milrinone Pharmacokinetics from Premature Neonates to Adolescents

Dr Jocelyne Benatar

Author: T. Yndigegn, B. Lindahl, K. Mars,…,J. Benatar
Description: Do beta-blockers improve outcomes after heart attacks – a feasibility study
Beta-Blockers after Myocardial Infarction and Preserved Ejection Fraction
Beta-Blockers after Myocardial Infarction and Preserved Ejection Fraction

Dr John Beca

Author: Luregn J. Schlapbach, Kristen S. Gibbons, et al.
Description: Nitric Oxide on cardio pulmonary bypass in congenital heart disease – A randomized controlled multi-center trial
ANZICS PSG-2022-Effect of Nitric Oxide via Car

Ryan Welch

Author: Ryan Welch, John Kolbe, Mandy Lardenoye and Kevin
Description: Exercise induced dyspnea caused by ventilatory limitation to exercise: A normal process for adolescents?
Novel application of Poincaré analysis to detect and quantify exercise oscillatory ventilation
Quantifying EFLT using a vector based analysis technique
Exercise induced bronchodilation

Eileen Gilder

Author: Eileen Gilder and co-authors
Description: Suction or Not to Suction, that is the question. Latest paper published: Avoidance of Routine Endotracheal Suction in Subjects Ventilated for # 12 Hours Following Elective Cardiac Surgery
Avoidance of routine endotracheal suction
Randomized controlled trial - avoidance of endotracheal suction
Endotracheal suction in intensive care
Patient's experiences of endotracheal tubes and suction following
Dr Eileen Gilder's Thesis

Dr Pau Medrano-Gracia

Author: Dr Pau Medrano-Gracia and co-authors
Description: Improving coronary stenting design and patient outcomes
Coronary artery bifurcation haemodynamics
Hemodynamics in Idealized Stented Coronary Arteries
Construction of a coronary artery atlas from CT angiography

Dr Kathryn Waddell-Smith

Author: Dr Kathryn Waddell-Smith and co-authors
Description: The change in QTc around puberty in long QT syndrome and adherence to beta-blocker therapy
β-Blocker Adherence in Familial Long QT Syndrome
Update on the Diagnosis and Management of Familial Long QT Syndrome

Dr Richard Douglas

Author: Kristi Biswas, Michael Hoggard, et al.
Description: Studies of chronic rhinosinusitis
The nasal microbiota in health and disease: variation within and between subjects

Dr Jonathan Skinner

Author: Ivone US Leong, Jonathan R Skinner et al.
Description: Targeted Next Generation Sequencing to identify the genetic causes of heritable cardiac disorders
Massively Parallel Sequencing in the Clinical Diagnostic Testing of Inherited Cardiac Conditions

Dr Margaret Wilsher

Author: Dr Simon GA Brown, Emma L Ball, et al.
Description: To determine whether conservative management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax is an effective, safe and acceptable therapeutic option
Randomised controlled trial of invasive versus conservative management of PSP

Dr Kathleen Gilbert

Author: Dr Kathleen Gilbert and co-authors
Description: Left and right ventricular function in congenital heart disease
Rapid D-Affine Biventricular Cardiac Function with Polar Prediction
An interactive tool for rapid biventricular
IEEE Meeting Abstract

Dr Shay McGuinness

Author: Dr Shay McGuinness and co-authors
Description: Study of the control of oxygen levels during cardio- pulmonary bypass
Oxygen Therapy: When Is Too Much Too Much?
Controlled Phase IIb Trial of Avoidance of Hyperoxemia during CPB

Dr Margaret Wilsher

Author: Peter G Jones, Sinan Kamona, et al.
Description: High flow oxygen therapy in the emergency room
The HOT-ER Study

Dr Raymond Kim

Author: Dr Raymond Kim and co-authors

Description: Staphylococcus aureus in recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis

The characteristics of intramucosal bacteria in chronic rhinosinusitis
Perioperative care for functional endoscopic sinus surgery

Ms Rachael Parke

Author: Ms Rachael Parke and co-authors
Description: High flow nasal oxygen therapy after cardiac surgery
The HOT-AS study
Open-label, phase II study of routine high-flow nasal oxygen therapy

Ms Rachael Parke

Author: Ms Rachael Parke and co-authors
Description: Can nasal high flow therapy prevent respiratory complications following cardiac surgery?
Pressures Delivered By Nasal High Flow Oxygen
Oxygen therapy in non-intubated adult intensive care patients
RCT - Prophylactic nasal high flow oxygen after cardiac surgery
ATS Conference Abstract
ATS Conference Abstract

Dr Loretta Wigg

Author: L. T. Radford, M. J. Bolland et al.
Description: Cardiovascular effects of calcium supplementation
The Auckland calcium study: 5-year post-trial follow-up

Dr Jocelyne Benatar

Author: Dr Jocelyne Benatar and co-authors
Description: The effect of dietary intervention on ruminant TFA and CRP levels in NZ
Effects of change in dairy food consumption on cardio-metabolic risk factors
Effects of changing dairy intake on trans and saturated fatty acid levels

Dr Paul Sexton

Author: Paul Sexton, Patricia Metcalf, and John Kolbe
Description: Respiratory effects of insulin sensitisation with metformin: a prospective observational study
Respiratory Effects of Insulin Sensitisation: Metformin

Dr Nigel Wilson

Author: Bo Reményi, Nigel Wilson, et al.
Description: Maintenance of website for echocardiographic Rheumatic Heart Disease standardisation project
World Heart Federation criteria for echocardiographic diagnosis of RHD

Ms Jacqui Hannam

Author: Ms Jacqui Hannam and co-authors
Description: Modelling for Awareness Prediction and Simulation (the MAPS Studies)
Explaining the acetaminophen–ibuprofen analgesic interaction
Tears at breakfast

Prof Alan Merry

Author: Prof Alan Merry and co-authors
Description: Multimodal, clinical assessment of a system to reduce error during anaesthesia
Multimodal system designed to reduce errors
The VASER Study

Dr Richard Douglas

Author: Dr Richard Douglas and co-authors
Description: The role of bacterial and fungal biofilms on the pathogenesis of chronic rhinosinusitis
CRS-persistent respiratory virus infection
Bacterial microcolonies exist in sphenoid bone-CRS
Are biofilms associated with inflammatory response-CRS
Pathogenesis and treatment of CRS
Investigating the microbiology of chronic sinusitis

Dr Shay McGuinness

Author: Dr Shay McGuinness and co-authors
Description: A multiple blind randomized controlled trial of sodium bicarbonate in cardiac surgery patients at high-risk of acute kidney injury
Sodium Bicarbonate Infusion to Reduce Cardiac Surgery
Prophylactic Administration of Bicarbonate
Prophylactic Administration of Bicarbonate
ATS Conference Abstract