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Townsville Health Research Showcase (THRS2020)
The Townsville Health Research Showcase will take place from 27 – 29 October 2020.
To view the full showcase abstracts, click below.
Tuesday, 27 October 2020: Keynote speaker - Professor Paul Glasziou
12.00pm - 1.30pm
Director, Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Bond University
The 2020 keynote speaker is Professor Paul Glasziou, Professor of Evidence-Based Practice at Bond University and the Director of the Institute for Evidence Based Healthcare.
Prof Glasziou was the Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford from 2003-2010. His key research interests include identifying and removing the barriers to using high quality research in everyday clinical practice.
He is a leader within the Reward Alliance, investigating research waste and promoting better prioritisation, design, conduct, regulation, management and reporting of health research.
Other research interests include overdiagnosis and overtreatment, general practice, uptake of evidence for non-drug interventions, and automation of systematic review processes.
To attend the Microsoft Teams live event, click here.
Tuesday, 27 October: Kidneys and Livers and Divers, Oh My!
1.30PM - 4.30PM
Topics include how to provide safe, efficient, effective, and sustainable services.
To attend Townsville Health Research Showcase Tuesday afternoon abstract presentations, follow this link, or email {"ct":"h3znSuHoLqTGc\/l9gvbayHjVEyl2g+Nxrbz1TjG1r34yxkA1dt5t3KbDjrIs2CAF","iv":"f0e2762e5d5cd48101ea9cda32c02cb7","s":"26939c0d71046c02"} to request a invitation for your desktop calendar.
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| Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 1.30pm | The efficacy of home phototherapy for physiological and non-physiological neonatal jaundice: a systematic review | Candice Anderson |
| 1.45pm | Success! Facilitating choice for renal patients in the tropics with central venous lines to maintain the integrity of their dressings while attending to personal hygiene | Wendy Smyth |
| 2.00pm | Liver Compliance and Cardiac Surgery Outcomes Pilot Study | Nicholas Ang |
| 2.15pm | Disparities in Surgical Access: A Systematic Literature Review, Conceptual Model and Evidence Map | Elzerie de Jager |
| 2.30pm | Northern Australia Health Service Delivery Situational Analysis: Findings and Recommendations | Alexandra Edelman & Sarah Larkins |
| 2.45pm | Break | |
| 3.00pm | Meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials reporting on interventions for prevention of diabetes-related foot ulcers. | Chanika Alahakoon |
| 3.15pm | Discharge Against Medical Advice as a marker of surgical cultural competency; a study of Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander patients | Elzerie de Jager |
| 3.30pm | Evaluating the quality and safety of the BreastScreen Remote Radiology Assessment Model of Service Delivery in Australia | Sarah Larkins & Janet Lengren |
| 3.45pm | Out of Pocket costs of cancer care and the impact on healthcare access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians | Rachel Cummins & Robyn Preston |
| 4.00pm | North Queensland retrieval of injured divers: a retrospective review | Richard Turk |
| 4.15pm | Tropical Australian Academic Health Centre Presentation | |
| 4.30pm | Closing remarks and presentations |
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Wednesday morning, 28 October 2020: From innovation to outcomes
8.45AM - 12.30PM
Topics cover leading excellence and innovation with a focus on individual healthcare outcomes.
To attend Townsville Health Research Showcase Wednesday morning abstract presentations, follow this link, or email {"ct":"wlmBRy+x2MylzyD4\/ibgrtFON\/QD0\/J8wQnqSS3r2j7u9DpaVjANEzn6i1FIgtUl","iv":"9780dac2f9cd922861f5f7a5c3d0af81","s":"6f2dbc7b31df7a9a"} to request a invitation for your desktop calendar.
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| Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 9.00am | Does diabetes during pregnancy effect fetal kidney growth? | Sonja Brennan |
| 9.15am | My Death, My Choice: Congruence between preferred and actual place of death | Glynnis James |
| 9.30am | Smoking Cessation in Head and Neck Cancer Patients: A Mixed Methods Study | Justin Smith |
| 9.45am | ‘They are inconveniencing us’ - Exploring how gaps in patient education and patient centred approaches interfere with TB treatment adherence: Perspectives from patients and clinicians in the Free State Province, South Africa. |
Nishila Moodley |
| 10.00am | Break | |
| 10.15am | Modeling the potential of wAu-Wolbachia strain invasion in mosquitoes to control Aedes-borne arboviral infections | Samson T. Ogunlade |
| 10.30am | Use of Virtual Reality for minor procedures in the Emergency Department: a scoping review | Cate Nagle |
| 10.45am | Is there an association between angiotensin pathway inhibitors and COVID-19 severity and mortality? A meta-analysis of observational data | Malindu Fernando |
| 11.00am | Break | |
| 11.15am | A novel system for the treatment of aortic annular dilation:An ex-vivo investigation and Live Animal Research | Pallav Shah |
| 11.30am | Effects of a high-dose 24-h infusion of tranexamic acid on death and thromboembolic events in patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding (HALT-IT): an international randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial | Luke Lawton |
| 11.45am | Electromagnetic Stimulator Therapy: New Technology for Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcer -TUH Experience | Julie Goodall |
| 12.00am | Real-time nanopore genotyping for bacterial pathogens | Eike Steinig |
| 12.15am | Impact of virtual reality interventions on haemodialysis patients: a scoping review | Wendy Smyth |
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Wednesday afternoon, 28 October 2020: Homegrown
1.30PM - 4.30PM
Findings from Past THHS SERTA Grant Recipients and a presentation from TAAHC.
To attend Townsville Health Research Showcase Wednesday afternoon abstract presentations, follow this link, or email {"ct":"LxpzhGVmxX4h4sfchdMIiTdyDKKWZOJpCo5l6cTjzsxko+7kOCOY4IQ2nisHCV7s","iv":"306c69f1c9fa0b6fed47495eb2f5edc0","s":"4c3d9cbc78940dc7"} to request a invitation for your desktop calendar.
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| Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 1.30pm | “You’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do”: Prostate cancer patients' perspectives on image guidance in radiotherapy | Amy Brown |
| 1.45pm | Perseverance with home-based upper limb practice after stroke: Perspectives of stroke survivors in Queensland | Bridee Neibling |
| 2.00pm | Improving outcomes for people with mild cognitive impairment: An Australian pilot study | Luciana Theodoro de Freitas |
| 2.15pm | Break | |
| 2.30pm | Radiation induces head and neck cancer cells to undergo an epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition; a stem cell phenotype. | Kylie Lopes Floro |
| 2.45pm | Procalcitonin: A Novel Test for Diagnosing Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis –A Pilot Study | Oliver Heyes |
| 3.00pm | An evaluation of research investment and impact at the Townsville Hospital and Health Service | Amy Brown |
| 3.15pm | An Immersive Sensory Experience during Childbirth: A proof of concept study | Mariann Hadland |
| 3.30pm | Closing remarks and presentations |
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Get in touch
We invite you to watch the live Showcase event via Microsoft Teams.
To join the online audience for THRS2020, please email {"ct":"S+1w6hPLUZOAHPWbfbH\/UC3EMvBnXAVudCRbGxjTeb99JqX9WbLDf3Yv9ZH0sBwH","iv":"25514a4aeddca4aa43b23340f1f1a1fe","s":"598de6ffc0753390"} to receive a calendar invitation.
Phone: (07) 4433 2459
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