AIHI researchers successful in 2017 NSW Health Early-Mid Career Fellowships

AIHI researchers successful in 2017 NSW Health Early-Mid Career Fellowships

Congratulations go to four researchers from the Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI) who were each offered a NSW Health Early-Mid Career Fellowship (EMC) for 2017.

AIHI recipients of the EMCs were:

Associate Professor Rebecca Mitchell: Factors that influence older individuals transitioning between hospital and aged care services. $360,939

Dr Annie Lau: Redesigning patient experiences in health service navigation using digital technology, $360,541

Dr Robyn Clay-Williams: Safety in complex systems: developing processes to improve productive safety in the Emergency Department, $360,929

Dr Virginia Mumford: Evaluate implementation of the Delirium Clinical Care Standard, $293,506

A total of 277 eligible applications were assessed and 19 were awarded through a competitive process. The review team had expertise in the priority skill areas; health service and systems design; implementation science; evaluation and improvement; epidemiology; medical and bio-informatics; health economics and biostatistics. Key objectives of the program are the development of skills and fostering knowledge translation with funding awarded to early-mid career health and medical researchers in NSW.

About the EMCs

EMC Fellowship Winners

L to R: Assoc. Prof. Rebecca Mitchell, Dr Virginia Mumford, Dr Robyn Clay-Williams, Dr Annie Lau

Groups related to this news

Centre for Health Informatics

Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research

Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science

News date

Thursday, 8 December 2016

Content owner: Australian Institute of Health Innovation Last updated: 11 Mar 2024 6:08pm

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