Veronique Price
Research areas:
- Joint Replacement
- Osteoarthritis
- Sex-differences in outcomes
Institute/Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
@AnnabelleChoong
Annabelle Choong
BBmed, BBmed (Hon) (enrolled)
Annabelle is a University of Melbourne Honours student contributing to research that informs discussions between clinicians and patients about postoperative outcomes, recovery and mitigation of risks following joint replacement. Specifically, she is researching the sex-differences observed in patients following surgery. This includes variation in pain and functional status before and after surgery, and rates of infection, revision, mortality and other adverse complications.
Research publications
Tew, M., Dowsey, M. M., Choong, A., Choong, P. F., & Clarke, P. J. J. o. C. M. (2020). Co-Morbidities and Sex Differences in Long-Term Quality-of-Life Outcomes among Patients with and without Diabetes after Total Knee Replacement: Five-Year Data from Registry Study. 9(1), 19.
OTHER KEY ROLES
Social Media and Promotions Officer for SOMA (Students’ Orthopaedic and Musculoskeletal Association)
Veronique Price
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Email: nazrind@unimelb.edu.au
Research areas:
- Indigenous Health
- Osteoartritis
- Joint Pain
Institute/Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
Naz Rind
BNursingSc
Naz is a registered nurse, an Aboriginal Research Assistant at OPUS and is identified in her tribe as a Yamatji/Wongi lady. Naz engages and liaises with Aboriginal communities as a healthcare worker to build trust and develop a rapport and understanding of long-term health. She is passionate about improving Aboriginal community health awareness by helping individuals recognise the symptoms of osteoarthritis – a common health issue that is not fully recognised in Aboriginal communities.
Naz is a vital member of the OPUS ECCO program where she conducts interviews with Aboriginal patients and provides ongoing cultural support and knowledge to OPUS-related activities.
Australian College of Nursing Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship Scheme (PHMSS)
Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM) Scholarship
Australian Rotary Indigenous Health Scholarship
OTHER KEY ROLES
Registered Nurse (Grade 2, Year 5) Dialysis nurse treating acute and chronic patients in ICU and ED
Trainer for nursing students
Health worker in Aboriginal communities, community nursing and mental health units
Veronique Price
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Email: gunatillake.t@unimelb.edu.au
Research areas:
- Aboriginal Health
- Osteoarthritis
- Community Engagement
- Joint pain
Institute/Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Dr Tilini Gunatillake
PhD; BSc (Hons)
Tilini is a research fellow working in the ECCO stream of the OPUS CRE, which focuses on providing equitable, culturally secure osteoarthritis care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Tilini engages with local Aboriginal communities and organisations on behalf of ECCO to build meaningful partnerships. By understanding how Aboriginal Australians perceive their health and drawing on their knowledge of the disease, she endeavours to develop an approach better suited for Aboriginal Australians to access culturally secure osteoarthritis care.
Tilini also works for St Vincent’s Health Australia, under the leadership of Professor Gail Garvey. Her role involves assisting in the development and implementation of an Aboriginal health research strategy across the entire organization and assisting in building up capacity of Aboriginal staff to carry out research. Tilini is passionate about social and health justice, and also embedding the voice of the community and consumers in the research process.
GRANTS
Research Endowment Grant for The ‘in-patient’ study: exploring the knowledge and understanding of osteoarthritis in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander patients admitted at SVHM ($16,938)
OTHER KEY ROLES
OPUS Consumer and Community Advisory Group: Liaison Officer
Veronique Price
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Research areas:
- Health economics
- Economic modelling
- Economic evaluation
Institute/Affiliation:
University of Melbourne, KPMG
Dr Chris Schilling
PhD, MSc, BEng (Hons)/BCom(Hons)
Dr Chris Schilling is an academic and consultant health economist who works across the OPUS CRE to provide health economics, economic evaluation and economic modelling support. His research priorities include improving the cost-effectiveness of surgery, understanding the economics of trials, and reducing low-value care in the treatment of osteoarthritis. Chris is involved in teaching both ‘Health Economics’ and ‘Economic Evaluation’, and supervision of PhD and Master students. In consultancy (KPMG), Chris leads a team of health economists providing economic evaluation and modelling to a range of government and industry clients. His work has influenced key public policy debates around obesity, mental health, low-value care and e-cigarettes.
Research publications
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS
Excellence in Doctoral Research, University of Melbourne, 2018
Postgraduate scholarship, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) 2015-2017
Best Paper, Australian Health Economics Society Doctoral Workshop 2015
Best Sessional Presentation, University of Melbourne School of Population and Global Health PhD Workshop 2015
OTHER KEY ROLES
KPMG Economics: Associate Director
Veronique Price
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Email: jp.caneiro@curtin.edu.au
Research areas:
- Musculoskeletal pain
- Behavioural intervention
- Osteoarthritis
- Pain-related fear
Institute/Affiliation:
Curtin University
@jpcaneiro
Dr JP Caneiro
BPhysio, PhD
Dr JP Caneiro is a Specialist Sports Physiotherapist (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2013) and a PhD in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy. JP is a researcher at Curtin University, where he also lectures in the Clinical Masters in Physiotherapy. He has published several research papers and presented his work internationally.
Dr JP Caneiro consults three days per week at Body Logic where he reviews complex musculoskeletal pain disorders, in special lower back and knee pain. JP provides mentoring to the clinical staff to ensure the highest level of clinical care is provided within the practice.
OTHER KEY ROLES
Curtin University: Research Fellow
Body Logic Physiotherapy Perth: Specialist Physiotherapist
Pain Ed: Educator
British Journal of Sports Medicine: Associate Editor
Veronique Price
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Research areas:
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Arthroplasty
- Osteoarthritis
Institute/Affiliation:
St. Vincent’s Hospital (Melbourne), University of Melbourne
Dr Sina Babazadeh
MBBS, PhD, DipSurgAnat, GCALL
Dr Babazadeh is an orthopaedic surgeon with a keen interest in joint replacement research. He completed his PhD at St Vincent’s in 2013, concentrating on improving knee replacement surgery outcomes. Since then he has trained as an orthopaedic surgeon (so that he could see what people looked like from the inside), concentrating on knee, hip and wrist surgery. His interests outside of academia revolve around history, philosophy and bad puns.
His main academic interest remains clinical arthritis outcomes, especially pertaining to joint replacement and surgery and he is currently working on a number of projects with the aim of improving patient satisfaction after joint replacement surgery.
OTHER KEY ROLES
St Vincent’s Hospital, Eastern Health, Melbourne Hand Surgery: Orthopaedic Surgeon
Veronique Price
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Email: sbunzli@unimelb.edu.au
Research areas:
- Qualitative research
- Beliefs and
- Physiotherapy
Institute/Affiliation:
The University of Melbourne
Dr Samantha Bunzli
BPhty (Hon), GradCert (Research Methodology), PhD
Sam uses qualitative methodologies to explore the experience of musculoskeletal pain from the perspective of those suffering pain, and the experiences of clinicians treating them. She has expertise in a range of qualitative methodologies including qualitative studies embedded within an implementation framework.
As a post-doctoral fellow with OPUS, she is involved in a range of qualitative projects spanning four OPUS streams. This has provided Sam an opportunity to work with, and learn from, a large network of researchers. It has also enabled her to apply her skills to a diverse range of studies such as: a prospective investigation of patient pathways to and expectations of joint replacement surgery; a case series intervention study of a non-operative alternative to surgery for advanced osteoarthritis; and a nation-wide behaviour change intervention to increase evidence based decision making among Orthopaedic Surgeons.
Dr Bunzli mentors and supervises PhD students using qualitative research approaches to advance orthopaedic care. She currently co-supervises PhD students investigating patient-reported outcomes from joint replacement surgery; exploring the health literacy of patients undergoing joint replacement; and the impact of osteoarthritis among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Sam is also co-chair of the OPUS Education and Training Committee.
Veronique Price
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Institute/Affiliation:
St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Professor Michael Barrington
PhD, FANZCA, MBBS
Michael Barrington is an Anaesthetist at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne and Professor for the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne. Clinical and academic interests include evaluating the quality and safety of regional anaesthesia, clinical registries and education. In addition to teaching regional anaesthesia using problem based learning discussions, tutorials, lectures and interactive formats; he has implemented novel training methods including workshop formats (cadaver, use of Hands-on Modules), core skill development, procedural assessment, Teaching on the Run and pre-operative briefings.
OTHER KEY ROLES
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne: Senior Staff Anaesthetist
The University of Melbourne: Academic Professor
Department of Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine: Coordinator, Regional Anaesthesia Research
Guy’s and St. Thomas Hospitals, London: Honorary Consultant
Veronique Price
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Email: kattanm@ccf.org
Research areas:
- Quality of life
- Medical decision making
- Cost-effectiveness analysis
Institute/Affiliation:
Cleveland Clinic
Professor Michael Kattan
PhD, MBA
Professor Kattan is an advisor for OPUS projects within Streams 2 and 4. Professor Kattan’s research is primarily focused on the development, validation, and use of prediction models. He is also interested in quality of life assessment to support medical decision making (such as utility assessment), decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and comparative effectiveness.
OTHER KEY ROLES
Cleveland Clinic: Dr. Keyhan and Dr. Jafar Mobasseri Endowed Chair for Innovations in Cancer Research
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic: Chairman
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University: Professor of Medicine
Division of General Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University: Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University: Professor
American Statistical Association: Member
Society for Medical Decision Making: Member
Veronique Price
OUR PEOPLE
Email: peter.kent@curtin.edu.au
Research areas:
- Musculoskeletal physiotherapy
- Wearable wireless movement sensors
- Musculoskeletal pain
- Prognostic Research
Institute/Affiliation:
Curtin University
A/Professor Peter Kent
BAppSc(Physio), BAppSc(Chiro), GradDipManipPhysio, PhD
Peter’s research has been primarily focused on prognostic and treatment subgrouping in spinal pain, prognostic research methodology, clinical reasoning, the role of MRI findings in spinal pain, and the capacity of technology (such as clinical registries and wearable movement sensor technology) to improve treatment effectiveness. He has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals (2019 Scopus h-index 26). Peter teaches prognostic research method and scientific writing at under-graduate and post-graduate levels.
His clinical training as a physiotherapist and manipulative therapist was at La Trobe University. He has more than 20 years of clinical experience as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist in hospital settings, multidisciplinary clinics and private practice.
In the OPUS CRE, Peter’s research is focused in Stream #3 (Developing non-surgical alternatives for end-staged osteoarthritis), where he supervises 3 PhD students: Nardia-Rose Klem, Tara Binnie and Jay-Shian Tan. He also contributes as a member of the Data Linkage Committee.
OTHER KEY ROLES
School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Curtin University: Associate Professor
The Raine Study, Musculoskeletal Group: SIG Leader
Quality Assurance and Database Unit, Spine Centre of Southern Denmark: Leader
Center for Muscle and Joint Health at the University of Southern Denmark: Honorary Professor
Pain-Ed: Collaborator
Mindfulness Teacher
Veronique Price
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Email: maria.inacio@unisa.edu.au
Research areas:
- Aged care
- Clinical epidemiology
- Orthopaedics
Institute/Affiliation:
University of South Australia
@mariacinacio
Professor Maria Inacio
PhD, MS, BS
Prof Inacio is an epidemiologist working in Stream 2 of the OPUS CRE, which has a focus on identifying patient and surgeon perceptions of risk and decision-making. She is an member of the OPUS Data Linkage Committee and provides valuable insights into population health surveillance systems (i.e. registries) and utilisation of existing data and informatics to enhance these systems.
More broadly, Prof Inacio’s work has the goal of identifying good models of care, areas in need of improvement, risk factors for poor health outcomes, and opportunities to improve health and wellbeing of older Australians accessing aged care services.
OTHER KEY ROLES
SAHMRI Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA): Director
University of South Australia: Adjunct Associate Professor
Hospital Research Foundation: Mid-Career Fellow
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research journal: Editor
Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences: Associate Member
Veronique Price
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Email: kieran.osullivan@aspetar.com
Research areas:
- Back Pain
- Physiotherapy
- Hamstring injury
Institute/Affiliation:
ASPETAR, University of Limerick
@kieranosull
Dr Kieran O'Sullivan
PhD, MManipTher, BPhysio
Kieran O’Sullivan is an Irish specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist, with a particular interest in spinal pain and rehabilitation. He commenced as Lead Physiotherapist at the Sports Spine Centre in August 2016. He is currently on a career break from his post as Senior Lecturer at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He has a strong track record in research, clinical practice and education. He completed his PhD on low back pain, and has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles. He has taught physiotherapists and other clinicians in over 10 countries.
OTHER KEY ROLES
University of Limerick, School of Allied Health: Senior Lecturer
Pain-Ed: Educator