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2013

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$842,974

Limited Budget Support - $47,445

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
Ms Alaina Francis
To determine whether significant differences in physiological responses exist between underwater hockey players and healthy controls
$21,460
Dr Mike Gillham
To complete a prospective pilot study of novel diagnostic biomarkers in patients with clinically suspected non-occlusive mesenteric ischaemia
$11,457
Dr Shay McGuinness
Contribution to study to assess the safety, feasibility and brain biomarker effect of 24 hours of therapeutic hypercapnia in patients admitted to ICU after cardiac arrest
$10,275
Dr Andrew McKee
One year subscription for unlimited users to intensive care educational website
$4,253

Project Support - $284,449

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
Dr Clair King
Correlation of functional and morphological change in the aging lung
$73,466
Dr Margaret Wilsher
To determine whether conservative management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax is an effective, safe and acceptable therapeutic option
$42,500
Drs John Ormiston & Mark Webster
Construction of a coronary artery anatomical atlas for PCI
$50,000
Dr Jonathon Skinner
Targeted next generation sequencing to identify the genetic causes of heritable cardiac disorders
$48,882
Dr Richard Douglas
Studies of chronic rhinosinusitis
$69,601

Senior Fellowship - $0

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
There were no Fellowships awarded in 2013

PhD Scholarship - $0

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
There were no PhD Scholarships awarded in 2013

Centennial Travel Award: Nurses, Technical, and Paramedical Staff - $0

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
There were no Centennial Travel Award for Nurses, Technical, and Paramedical Staff awarded in 2013

Mornington Brennan Nurses Scholarship

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
There were no Mornington Brennan Nurses Scholarship awarded in 2013

Travel/Conference Support - $78,561

Principle Investigator
International Conferences
Domestic Conferences
Green Lane Travel Award
$15,000
Medical (only for those who do not receive CME)
$3,940
$5,831
Nursing /Technical /Paramedical
$51,947
$1,843

Salary Support - $298,781

John Neutze Scholarship
Recipient Professor Harvey White

Other Salary Support
Professor Ralph Stewart (Cardiology)

Administrative Support
Karishma Sidhu (Biostatistics), Noelle Balbas (Physiology), Charlene Nell (Desktop Administrator), Lyn Mellor/Frances Douglas (Cardiovascular Research Unit)

Restricted Funds released - $133,739

Transplant Fellowship salary support, Research support, Travel support , TB Conference organization

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