2010

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$824,530

Limited Budget Support - $22,311

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
Dr Bruce Cartwright
An audit of platelet dysfunction following cardiopulmonary bypass by way of platelet agonist tubes
$11,307
Dr Nigel Wilson
Maintenance of website for echocardiographic Rheumatic Heart Disease standardisation project
$11,004

Project Support - $154,563

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
Dr Margaret Wilsher
Bronchiectasis: predictors of severity
$50,000
Dr Paul Sexton
Respiratory effects of insulin sensitisation with metformin; a prospective observational study
$44,563
Dr Lisa Young
Additional research nurse time for project Genetic studies in sarcoidosis
$10,000
Dr Jocelyne Benatar
The effect of dietary intervention on ruminant TFA and CRP levels in NZ
$50,000

Senior Fellowship - $0

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
There were no Fellowships awarded in 2010

PhD Scholarship - $210,000

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
Ms Rachael Parke
Can nasal high flow therapy prevent respiratory complications following cardiac surgery?
$105,000
Dr Loretta Wigg
Cardiovascular effects of calcium supplementation
$105,000

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

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
Julie Stubbs
Visit Evelina (previously Guy’s) Hospital, which has a world-class fetal cardiology programme, to gain skills to ensure best practice at ACH
$2,500
Anna McGregor
Visit Papworth, The Heart, St Thomas’, and The Royal Brompton Hospitals, all of which have independent CVICUs, Theatres, and Wards to gain knowledge of how other units function to enable improvements at ACH
$2,500

Mornington Brennan Nurses Scholarship - $0

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
There were no Mornington Brennan Nurses Scholarships awarded in 2010

Travel/Conference Support - $70,414

Principle Investigator
International Conferences
Domestic Conferences
Senior Registrar Travel Award
$18,000
Medical (only for those who do not receive CME)
$865
$1,100
Nursing /Technical /Paramedical
$40,214
$10,235

Salary Support - $367,242

John Neutze Scholarship
Professor Harvey White

Other Salary Support
Dr Ralph Stewart (Cardiology)

Administrative Support
Mildred Lee (Biostatistics), Barbara Semb/Felicity Roberts (Research Support), Charlene Nell (Cardiovascular Research Unit)

Restricted Funds released - $0

Nothing to report

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

Dr Anita Sumpter

Author: Conor J. O’Hanlon, Anita Sumpter Brian J. Anderson
Description: Milrinone dosing in paediatric cardiac intensive care

Dr Jocelyne Benatar

Author: T. Yndigegn, B. Lindahl, K. Mars,…,J. Benatar
Description: Do beta-blockers improve outcomes after heart attacks – a feasibility study

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

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?

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

Dr Pau Medrano-Gracia

Author: Dr Pau Medrano-Gracia and co-authors
Description: Improving coronary stenting design and patient outcomes

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

Dr Richard Douglas

Author: Kristi Biswas, Michael Hoggard, et al.
Description: Studies of chronic rhinosinusitis

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

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

Dr Kathleen Gilbert

Author: Dr Kathleen Gilbert and co-authors
Description: Left and right ventricular function in congenital heart disease

Dr Shay McGuinness

Author: Dr Shay McGuinness and co-authors
Description: Study of the control of oxygen levels during cardio- pulmonary bypass

Dr Margaret Wilsher

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

Dr Raymond Kim

Author: Dr Raymond Kim and co-authors

Description: Staphylococcus aureus in recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis

Ms Rachael Parke

Author: Ms Rachael Parke and co-authors
Description: High flow nasal oxygen therapy after cardiac surgery

Ms Rachael Parke

Author: Ms Rachael Parke and co-authors
Description: Can nasal high flow therapy prevent respiratory complications following cardiac surgery?

Dr Loretta Wigg

Author: L. T. Radford, M. J. Bolland et al.
Description: Cardiovascular effects of calcium supplementation

Dr Jocelyne Benatar

Author: Dr Jocelyne Benatar and co-authors
Description: The effect of dietary intervention on ruminant TFA and CRP levels in NZ

Dr Paul Sexton

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

Dr Nigel Wilson

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

Ms Jacqui Hannam

Author: Ms Jacqui Hannam and co-authors
Description: Modelling for Awareness Prediction and Simulation (the MAPS Studies)

Prof Alan Merry

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

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