onsford, J., Lyons, R.A., Fitzgerald, M., Judson, R.,Teague, W., Braaf, S., Nunn, A., Ameratunga, S., Harrison, J.E. (2017). Long-term health status and trajectories of seriously injured patients: A population-based longitudinal study. PLoS Med, 2017. 14(7): p. e1002322.
Collie, A., Simpson, P.M., Cameron, P.A., Ameritunga, S., Ponsford, J., Lyons, R.A., Fitzgerald, M., Judson, R., Teague, W., Braaf, S., Nunn, A., Harrison, J.E, Gabbe, B. (2018). Patterns and predictors of return to work after major trauma: A prospective population based registry study. Annals of Surgery, 2018 Jan 16. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002666. [Epub ahead of print].
Braaf, S., Beck, B., Callaway, L., Ponsford, J., & Gabbe, B. (2018) The residential status of working age adults following severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Brain Impairment, Accepted 9 March 2018.
Braaf, S., Ameritunga, S., Christie, N., Teague, W., Ponsford, J., Cameron, P.A., Gabbe, B. Care coordination: experiences of people with traumatic brain injury and their family members in the 4-years after injury. Paper submitted to Brain Injury September, 2017. Revised and resubmitted June 2018.
ICU Recovery Study
This study, conducted in collaboration with the Alfred trauma ICU team examined outcome six months after admission to intensive care. It identified significant levels of continuing disability.
Hodgson, C, Udy, A., Bailey, M.., Barrett, J.,Bellomo, R., Bucknall, T., Gabbe, B., Higgins, A., Hunt-Smith, J., Murray, L.J., Myles, P.S., Pilcher, D.V., Ponsford, J.,, Walker, CS., Young, M.E., Iwashyna, T.J., Cooper, D.J., (2017). The impact of disability in survivors of critical illness. Intensive Care Medicine, 43(7), 992–1001.
Research Collaborations
Transport Accident Commission
Our most long-standing and productive industry partnership in research has been with the Transport Accident Commission, which has funded MERRC’s Longitudinal Head Injury Outcome Study since 1995. MERRC researchers meet with the TAC Steering Committee, for the project, chaired by David Attwood, several times a year, presenting findings and applying them to enhance TAC’s services, whilst taking direction for future studies and analyses. The research has thereby contributed to TAC policy and practice over many years.
NHMRC Centre for Excellence in TBI Psychosocial Rehabilitation
Jennie Ponsford is part of a team of chief investigators who have been the recipients of an NHMRC Centre of research Excellence in in Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation grant, entitled the CRE in Traumatic Brain Injury Psychosocial rehabilitation: Breaking down barriers for social reintegration has an overarching aim to break down the barriers that currently prevent people with TBI returning to the community. It has embraced basic research into remediation for emotional, social and communication disorders through to evaluation of clinical techniques to improve participation, focusing on self-competency, i.e., fatigue, mood, self-awareness and self-regulation and social competency, i.e. speech, social cognition, social skills and communication. Each member of the team is expert in different facets of remediation research. Professor Skye McDonald, who leads the team, is a neuropsychologist and world leader in the assessment and remediation of social cognition and communication disorders following TBI. Professor Vicki Anderson is a pediatric neuropsychologist with internationally recognised expertise in models of social function and interventions post child TBI. Professor Jennie Ponsford is a world renowned clinical neuropsychologist for research into evidence-based management of mild and moderate-severe TBI, longitudinal outcomes and predictors. Professor Robyn Tate is a clinical neuropsychologist with an international profile in rehabilitation and outcome evaluation following TBI. Professor Leanne Togher is a world renowned speech pathologist for her work in communication and adult TBI. Dr Angela Morgan is a speech pathologist whose internationally acclaimed research is focused on new discoveries in genes, brain and behaviour associated with childhood communication disorders. Dr Jennifer Fleming is an occupational therapist with expertise in the assessment and rehabilitation of awareness and metacognitive skills. Dr Tamara Ownsworth is a clinical neuropsychologist internationally recognised for work on the rehabilitation of metacognitive impairments after TBI. Jacinta Douglas has combined skills in speech pathology and clinical neuropsychology research, underpinned by 30 years of clinical experience in TBI.
This CRE has provided a platform to tackle psychosocial deficits on a number of coordinated fronts addressing psychosocial deficits from basic impairment through to participation, focusing on self competency, i.e., fatigue, mood, self-awareness and self-regulation and social competency, i.e. speech, social cognition, social skills and communication. All CRE researchers are engaged in translational clinical research that has a multi-disciplinary focus in contrast to the way in which (discipline specific) training of clinicians occurs. The CRE has been a pivotal interface to translate research to clinical practice. It has provided the structure and support for research training for clinicians from allied health professions via scholarships, postdocs, websites, meetings, mentoring and across-site training. The CRE has capitalised on the internationally recognised expertise and funding of its members, enhancing Australia’s profile in improving TBI outcomes.
Monash Alfred Injury Network
MERRC is affiliated with the Monash Alfred Injury Network (MAIN), which is a collaborative partnership between Monash University and Alfred Health. MAIN focuses on injury prevention, injury management and recovery from injury and trauma. It is chaired by Professor Peter Cameron.
Australian Football League
Catherine Willmott has forged a successful partnership with the Australian Football League for studies of concussion in footballers.
Victorian Stroke Clinical Network
Rene Stolwyk and Dana Wong have forged a relationship with the Victorian Stroke Clinical Network to deliver memory strategy interventions in the Monash and Austin Health Networks, in collaboration with Dr Sandy Grayson
Department of Health
Rene Stolwyk is working with the Department of Health to deliver psychology services to regional areas in Victoria, including Echuca, via telehealth.
Other collaborations:
An NHMRC-funded grant is funding a collaborative project headed by Prof Chris Rowe and Dr Paul McCrory from The Florey, Dr Malcolm Hopwood and Dr Meaghan O’Donnell from the University of Melbourne in a study examining the association of traumatic brain injury with dementia.
Jennie Ponsford and Marina Downing have collaborated with A/Prof Peter Bragge from Monash University and Dr Mark Bayley from Toronto, as well as Prof Robyn Tate, Prof Leanne Togher, Dr Diana Velikonja and Prof Jacinta Douglas in the development of guidelines in Cognitive Rehabilitation following TBI.
Collaboration has also been developed with A/Professor Meaghan O’Donnell from the Australian Centre for Post-Traumatic Mental Health and Dr Nicole Lee towards the development of interventions studies for psychological disorders in individuals with traumatic brain injury.
The Centre also has a close collaborative relationship with Dr Richard O’Sullivan the Director of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) at Epworth Hospital, who contributes to research on imaging following traumatic brain injury. Collaborations have been forged with Professor Erin Bigler of Brigham Young University in Utah, USA, and with A/Prof Matthew Mundy from the School of Psychological Sciences on studies of the neurobiology of cognitive impairments following traumatic brain injury.
Research on sleep disorders and their treatment is carried out in collaboration with Professor Shantha Rajaratnam in the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University, Associate Professor Steven Lockley of Harvard and Brigham Young University in Boston and with members of staff from the Monash Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Centre
A collaboration with the Dr Judith Charlton from the Monash University Accident Research Centre and Drs Michel Bedard and Shawn Marshall from the University of Ottawa has resulted in a collaborative project entitled: Safer Roads to Recovery: Assessing Readiness for Driving after Traumatic Brain Injury, funded by the Victorian Neurotrauma Foundation and Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation.
A collaboration has been forged with Professor Mark Sherer and A/Prof Angelle Sander from the University of Houston, USA, to conduct a study identifying patterns of outcome following TBI. This study was funded in part by the US Department of Education and our work on this is now funded by TAC.
The centre is working with US TBI researchers from Craig Hospital in Denver, Dr Cynthia Harrison-Felix, Dr Jessica Ketchum and well as Dr John Corrigan and to conduct a comparison of outcomes from the MERRC database with those from the Model Systems project in the USA.
Another comparative predictive study is underway in collaboration with Dr William Walker and Dr Jennifer Marwitz as part of an NIH funded study.
MERRC is also actively collaborating with Prof Carolyn Van Heugten and her students from the University of Maastricht on studies of fatigue and sleep disturbance and fear avoidance in mild TBI.
Jennie Ponsford is collaborating with researchers from Suunaas Rehabilitation Hospital in Norway, Professors Marianne Lovestad and Nada Andelic on studies of fatigue and return to employment following traumatic brain injury.What is Roxicodone Roxycodone For Sale (Roxycodone)?
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