Cancer Survivorship

The development of a nutrition care pathway for patients undergoing surgery for upper gastrointestinal cancer

Irene Deftereos

Technology supported self-guided nutrition and physical activity interventions in adults with cancer: a systematic review

Dr Nicole Kiss

Driving Improvement for head and neck cancer patients with Gastrostomy tubes through advanced practice in dietetics

Kim Lunardi

Chronic Disease Management

Efficacy of liquid sinemet in the management of non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease

Mary Danoudis

Evaluation of a new evidence based outpatient program for Parkinson’s disease

Kim Eckersley & Scott MacMillan

What Over the Counter (OTC) products are patients using at home?

Kyrillos Guirguis

Home-based or centre based chronic heart failure rehabilitation?

Katie Palmer

Management of OA hip and knee – A holistic approach

Gaurav Arora

Enhancing social connections in a group pain management program

Dr Paul Beaton

Engagement, attendance and current CHF rehabilitation practice in Australia

Katie Palmer

Measuring dexterity in people with Parkinson’s disease: Reliability and validity of pegboard tests

Dr Elizabeth Proud

Sub-acute Point-of-Service Nutrition Screening Audit

Helen Stratmann

The effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Chronic Neuropathic Pain in patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Dr Maryam Zoghi

Factors associated with discharge destination from the acute general medical ward

Aruska D’Souza

Consumer collaboration & carer engagement 

Evaluating the Volunteer Meal Assistance Program at Western Health; A positive patient experience

Hollie Bevans

Reasons for non-attendance at health service appointments and strategies to address: A literature review

Kathryn Bailey

Identifying and prioritizing allied health research priorities in a regional setting: a modified Delphi protocol

Dr Renee Clapham

Increasing occupational engagement and participation on the Geriatric Evaluation and Management Ward (GEM) at St Vincent’s Hospital, Fitzroy

Yvonne Mak-Yuen

Help or hindrance? Harnessing the resource of volunteers and visitors at hospital mealtimes

Ella Ottrey

Consumer feedback in stroke and neurology ward design

Katherine Clarke

Constructing a grounded theory of parents’ musical engagement with their premature baby and emerging parental identity in a neonatal unit (NU)

Dr Elizabeth McLean

Osteoarthritis, risk of falls and falls prevention – is it time to change our terminology?

Dr Sze-Ee Soh

Cultural diversity, access and equity

Dressed with dignity: the provision of clothing for patients being discharged from hospital

Siobhan Feely

Establishing the viability of videoconferencing as a method of increasing access to interpreters at Western Health

Anna Novak

Sneakers not Slippers – Promoting cross-cultural connections and enhancing the health of multicultural seniors

Dr Myrla Sales

Disability and enablement 

Post stroke communication disability: a risk factor for falls in inpatient rehabilitation

Rebecca Sullivan

Are participants of balance programs achieving a reduction in falls risk?

Candice Oberholster

Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG’s) and the emotional wellbeing of adults living with a physical disability

Anca Grobbelaar

Enhancing healthcare access and support for people with a disability and their carers: Working together to improve hospital experiences 

Caitlin Wright

Education and development

Effectiveness of an allied health emerging clinical leaders pilot program

Anne Harrison

Developing clinicians who model excellent practice, challenge poor practice and inspire others

Nicole Shaw

Evaluation of a ward-based risk assessment manual handling program on workplace practice

Nicholas Taylor

Short duration clinically-based interprofessional activities prepare heath professional students for the workforce: A systematic review

Peter Brack

Is a program of short duration learner-led interprofessional education activities for entry-level health professional students feasible at Northern Health? A pilot randomised controlled trial

Peter Brack

A prospective audit of allied health student supervisor activity at Western Health

Dr Laura Browning

A digital assessment and feedback resource for the School of Health Sciences and Melbourne Dental School

Dr Kwang Cham

What is effective clinical supervision of Physiotherapists?

Shae Cooke

Altered Airway Education: A training program for nursing staff to minimise clinical risk for patients with altered airways in hospital

Amy Cutcliffe

Breaking down professional siloes – Using interprofessional education to help hospital allied health and doctors work together

Gemma Houston

Driving change in research culture through knowledge translation

Owen Howlett

Clinical on-boarding as a tool to enhance service delivery and confidence in hospital based occupational therapists. A qualitative study

Anna Joy

‘The D Word’: Allied Health led dementia professional development

Jacqueline Kay

Recruiting and developing a capable workforce: Translation of the Allied Health Capability Framework into practice

Merridy Moore

Implementation of a multidisciplinary allied health training program centred on student & intern supervision

Trent Wilkie

Building allied health research capacity at a regional Australian hospital: a follow up study

Dr Tilley Pain

Which learning activities enhance physiotherapy practice? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Edmund Leahy

What is the value of spiritual care? Patient reported outcome measures

Dr Heather Tan

Innovations in rural health

Advancing rural allied health practice through health service collaboration

Daniel Baker

Development of an “Advanced Developmental Paediatric Practitioner” role – a one-stop-shop for children with developmental delay

Kait Brown

Leadership and mentoring

Allied Health Flow and Interdisciplinary Referral Management (AHFIRM) Program

Angela Mucic

Interprofessional collaboration at mealtimes in hospital: The need for cultural change

Ella Ottrey

More than just a Buddy: Implementation of a peer-support program in a private community neurorehabilitation setting

Pip Willson

Novel allied health models

Home environment simulation as an alternative to home assessment

Sarah Campbell

HEARTOON – A multimedia, multidisciplinary approach to Cardiac Rehabilitation

Carolyn Conway

Allied Health Assistant (AHA) led exercise before Physiotherapy assessment was safe and feasible in a Geriatric Evaluation Medicine (GEM) service: A pilot trial

Melanie Haley

Implementing tele-rehabilitation for eligible speech pathology clients in a community rehabilitation setting: A process analysis

Ricci Presser

Inpatient rehabilitation home assessment service

Bronwyn Simpson

Improved discharge planning through a community & ambulatory in-reach model

Haria Lambrou

Advanced Practice Gastroenterology Dietitian (APGD) to conduct primary contact screening clinics for patients on the gastroenterology waiting list (WL)

Katherine Healy

The impact of occupational therapy in a targeted therapy in acute rehabilitation program at Alfred Hospital

Anna Kennedy

Implementation of the assessment for rehabilitation tool for Northern Hospital acute stroke interdisciplinary discharge planning

Camille Meredith

We are the champions: Model for facilitation of an organisation wide malnutrition strategy

Kathryn Pierce

Does the implementation of an e-learning package to medical and nursing staff improve adherence to dysphagia screening?

Nicole Reyes

Activity levels of rehabilitation and geriatric and evaluation management inpatients

Natasha Selenitsch

A new model of physiotherapy rehabilitation to improve outcomes after hip fracture

Catherine Senserrick

A new paradigm of emergency dental care at the community dental clinic: no appointment necessary!

Associate Professor Margaret Rogers

Up and Active: preventing functional decline for older people in general medicine wards

Melanie Haley & Rhiannon Pendleton

Allied health and rotary equipment reissue program for hardship

Angela Mucic

Public health and human services workforce innovations

Breaking Bad News via Social Media: an exploratory study of the implications of the use of social networking sites during a sudden, unexpected, emergent hospital admission

Margaret Cowgill

Incorporating environment enrichment strategies to assist in the management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD): A review of the evidence

Bridget Hoole

Introduction of an allied health assistant (AHA) role across oncology and lymphoedema services at Monash Health

Lucy Whelan

Allied Health Assistant Clinical Supervision: Fulfilling the entitlements

Lucy Whelan

“Communicate, communicate, communicate”: Advanced Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy services, enabling factors for multi-site implementation

Bridget Shaw

Factors influencing workplace location choices for Allied Health professionals: A systematic review

Anna Couch

Supervision and delegation framework for allied health assistants and the support workforce in disability

Annette Davis

Can a Novel approach to Clinical Supervision for junior Dietitians improve department capacity and functionality?

Karen Edis

Smart triaging: the impact of multiple small interventions and inter-disciplinary collaboration on the Orthopaedic waiting list

Caitlin Farmer

DASH – Dynamic Allocation of Staff Hours

Kath Feely

Development of an allied health clinical supervision framework for Victoria

Marcus Gardner

Occupational therapists self-perceived knowledge and skills for enabling older adult with delirium

Dr Danielle Hitch

Victorian allied health assistant network

Tarrlita Kay

A Family Safety Worker’s (FSW) reflective evidence based practice to compare perpetrator self- assessment of violent and controlling behaviors versus the lived experience of affected family members (AFM) over a 20 week period at DPV Health’s Men’s Behavior Change Program (MBCP)

Deidre Pakendorf

Exploring the professional identity of allied health staff within organisational structures

Associate Professor Judi Porter

Digital recruitment: Evaluation of a video component within a values based model for new graduate Allied Health recruitment

Leonie Shaw

Where do they go? Methodology and lessons from collaborative allied health graduate tracking research

Dr Susan Waller

Implementation of an Osteoarthritis Hip and Knee Service (OAHKS) in a community health setting compared to the hospital setting: a feasibility study for a new care pathway

Alison Gibbs & Dr Jason Wallis

Improving efficiency of referral triage for ambulatory pain management service for improved patient access and flow

Swapna Gokhale

Allied health inpatient service provision in Australian and New Zealand hospitals

Megan Jepson

Public health; diet, exercise and lifestyle

Attitudes and expectations of pregnant women towards regular gestational weight monitoring

Julia Zinga

Strictly Come Dancing with Parkinson’s: a regional health service – community research initiative translating evidence into practice

Dr Anna Moran

Adherence rates to home exercise programs in older adults following hip fracture: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Lucinda Yau

Is safe footwear a thing? Falls, footwear and older adults

Annette Davis

Associations of dietetic intervention and maternal and neonatal outcomes in women with gestational diabetes

Julia Zinga

Translating research into practice

Malnutrition Prevalence in regional oncology patients

Wendy Swan & Viv Jeffery

Risk factors for medication non-adherence among Victorian patients receiving Home Medicine Reviews (HMRs)

Kyrillos Guirguis

Engaging in an evidence-based osteoarthritis management program: Referrer and patient perspectives

Dr Christian Barton

Implementing evidence based education and exercise for knee osteoarthritis

Matthew Francis

SENSe Partnership: A Network of sites and ‘up-skilled’ therapists to deliver best-practice stroke rehabilitation of the upper limb

Liana Cahill

Longitudinal evaluation of a knowledge translation role in occupational therapy

Dr Danielle Hitch

Development and evaluation of a Community of Practice (CoP) to reduce waiting time for community outpatient services

Annie Lewis

Reducing the cancer malnutrition burden: highlights of state-wide collaborations in Victoria

Jenelle Loeliger

Psychometric properties of assessment tools for cognitive impairment after mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Rosalie Lui

Ethnography in nutrition and dietetics research shows opportunities for allied health

Ella Ottrey

Measuring research translation: Introducing evidence briefs

Dr Tilley Pain

Development and feasibility of a bedside decision support tool (DST) to identify and treat hospital acquired malnutrition

Natalie Simmance

Cost effectiveness of a model to improve access to community outpatient services

Dr David Snowdon

Factors influencing current Evidence-Based Practice in Allied Health and Community Services

Dr Tamara Tse

Comparison of spatiotemporal measures of gait in soft versus hard soled footwear

Simone Cranage