ANNUAL REPORT for the Year Ending 30 June 2014 © 2014 Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation ABN 37 814 620 674
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2013/14 ANNUAL REPORT For the year ending 30 June 2014 © 2014 Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation ABN 37 814 620 674 QEMRF acknowledges the support and funding received from the Queensland Government through Queensland Health. Inside Cover Image © The State of Queensland 2014, Townsville Hospital CONTENTS About 2 Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation 2 Our Collaborators 3 From the Chair 4 From the Chief Executive Officer 6 Return on Investment 8 Profiling our Research 10 Media Clips 10 Media Coverage 12 Research Manager’s Report 14 Researcher Profile 16 Dr Kylie Baker 16 Breakthroughs 17 Grants Awarded 20 Distribution of Grants Awarded 20 Grants Awarded 22 - Project Grants Scheme 22 - Staff Specialist Grant Scheme 26 - Capacity Building Grants 29 - Education and Promotion Grant 31 Governance 32 Board of Directors 33 Committees 35 Financial 38 Financial Controller’s Report 38 Statement of Total Equity 39 Reserves to Cover Financial Commitment 39 Audited Statement of Financial Position 40 Audited Statement 41 Publications 42 List of Acronyms 47 ABOUT Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation Improving Queensland’s Emergency Medicine Performance Queensland Emergency Medicine Research ■ developed extensive national and international Foundation (QEMRF) was established in 2007 research networks connecting Queensland to allocate research grants to individuals and researchers with the best in the world. project groups’ intent on improving the care of QEMRF has demonstrated the ability to take patients in Queensland public hospital Emergency advantage of the opportunity provided through Departments (EDs). strategic funding from Queensland Government. Queensland Health provided an initial $5 million in This is highlighted by: seed funding to establish the Foundation as well as ■ best practice governance through a skills based $2 million per annum to meet the objectives of Board of Directors the Foundation. ■ a highly competitive grant process with expert The Queensland Government has shown great national and international reviewers vision in its commitment to funding emergency ■ demonstrated quantifiable Return on Investment medicine research through QEMRF. ■ demonstrated focus on translation of outcomes Of the $12 million granted to QEMRF over six into practice years, 97% has been awarded to research and ■ building capacity across the entire state capacity building programs. QEMRF has a proven including a commitment to rural and regional track record of delivering significant health and Queensland. economic benefits to Queenslanders. QEMRF has demonstrated a superior understanding QEMRF has come a long way in a short time. of quality emergency medicine research by: We have successfully built a unique funding ■ developing and mentoring best practice model fostering innovative research, and research researchers capability demonstrating outcomes that translate ■ identifying clinical research projects that into real benefits for the health system and translate into improved health outcomes health economy. ■ supporting research projects that have QEMRF has a proven track record and has: national impact. ■ successfully awarded 82 applications to date Queensland is now highly regarded as a national ■ invested $11.7 million in emergency medicine leader in emergency medicine research and is research grants becoming the location of choice for the brightest ■ published over 100 peer reviewed journal articles minds in emergency medicine. ■ generated a highly competitive grants environment, attracting high quality research submissions Thank you for supporting the Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation. QEMRF acknowledges founding member organisations: Together is a counterpart organisation of the ASU Represented by Department of Health Queensland 2 QUEENSLAND EMERGENCY MEDICINE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OUR COLLABORATORS GOVERNMENT – QUEENSLAND HEALTH Centre for Healthcare Related Infection Surveillance and Prevention (CHRISP) Queensland Emergency Department Strategic Advisory Panel Emergency Management Unit, Disaster Management Retrieval Services Queensland (Northern and Southern Operations) HOSPITALS Andrews War Memorial Hospital John Flynn Private Hospital Princess Alexandra Hospital Sunshine Coast Hospital Bundaberg Hospital John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth Sunshine Hospital, Melbourne Caboolture Hospital Kingaroy Hospital Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital The Alfred Hospital Cairns Hospital Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital Randwick Children’s Hospital The Austin Hospital Capricorn Coast Hospital Liverpool Hospital, NSW Redcliffe Hospital The Prince Charles Hospital The Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital Children’s Hospital, Westmead Logan Hospital Redland Hospital The Royal Children’s Hospital Dandenong Hospital Mackay Base Hospital Robina Hospital The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne Maryborough Hospital Rockhampton Hospital Emergency Department Clinical Network, QLD The Townsville Hospital Gladstone Hospital Mater Children’s Hospital Royal Hobart Hospital The Tweed Hospital Gold Coast University Hospital Mater Health Services Royal Melbourne Hospital The Wesley Hospital Greenslopes Private Hospital Mater Hospital, Brisbane Royal Perth Hospital Toowoomba Hospital Gympie Hospital Mount Isa Hospital Southern Health - Paediatric Warwick Hospital Hervey Bay Hospital Nambour Hospital Emergency Medicine Western Health, Melbourne Ipswich Hospital Pindarra Private Hospital St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital Women and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH / INSTITUTES / UNIVERSITIES / CENTRES DEPARTMENTS Canada Human Effectiveness Experimentation Centre, CSIRO Australian Catholic University Defence Research Development Canada The Australian e-Health Research Centre School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine Germany Griffith University School of Physiotherapy The Nuremberg Hospital Griffith Health Institute Bond University New Zealand - Centre for Health Practice Innovation Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine Christchurch Public Hospital NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Nursing Centre for Rural and Remote Area Health Kidz First Children’s Hospital, Auckland Research Centre for Clinical and Community A jointly badged centre of Southern Queensland Starship Children’s Hospital, Auckland Practice Innovation - Griffith Health Institute and the University of Queensland University of Auckland James Cook University - Department of Paediatrics Flinders University, South Australia Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Spain Tropical Medicine Griffith University School of Medicine Hospital del Mar, Barcelona Mater Medical Research Institute School of Nursing and Midwifery Sweden Mater Pharmacy Services James Cook University Lund University Australian Centre for Paediatric Pharmacokinetics Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences Switzerland QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute School of Engineering and Physical Sciences Kantonsspital Liesta School of Marine and Tropical Biology Spital Lachen Queensland University of Technology Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI) School of Medicine and Dentistry University Hospital Basel Centre for Emergency and Disaster Management School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and University Hospital Zurich Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI) Rehabilitation Sciences Taiwan Joseph Epstein Centre for Emergency Medicine Research Monash Medical Centre China Medical University Medical Engineering Research Facility (MERF) Monash University National Centre for Classification in Health United Kingdom Faculty of Health The Royal Liverpool University Hospital Sunshine Hospital Queensland University of Technology - Department of Emergency Medicine School of Public Health Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine USA The Royal Children’s Hospital, - School of Nursing Baylor College of Medicine Harvard University Melbourne - School of Public Health and Social Work - Harvard Medical School Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Faculty of Science and Engineering Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre - Department of Medicine, The Royal Children’s Hospital The University of Melbourne Queensland Children’s Medical Research Institute Division of Gerontology Department of Mathematics Education University of California The University of Queensland The University of Queensland University of Pittsburgh Australian Centre for Prehospital Care Research Critical Care and Anaesthesia - Infectious Diseases Division - Burns, Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre - School of Population Health - School of Medicine Centre for Clinical Research Critical Care Research Group - Centre for Online Health Department of Paediatric and Child Health - Centre for Research in Geriatric Medicine Division of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care FOUNDATIONS Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences Centre for Geriatric Medicine Ipswich Hospital Foundation - School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences - Queensland Trauma Registry National Heart Foundation of Australia - School of Human Movement Studies Centre of National Research on Disability and Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Foundation Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD) The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation - School of Medicine University of Western Australia Faculty of Science Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine - School of Veterinary Science AMBULANCE SERVICES