Honours Projects 2009

Our Honours program offers a career path into many areas of public health and clinical research

2009 Honours Booklet (pdf 901kb)

Our Honours program coordinator is Dr Anna Peeters - anna.peeters@med.monash.edu.au

We offer students the opportunity to follow a career into many areas of public heatlh and clinical research including -

Honours projects available for 2009 in DEPM and in conjunction with SPHPM partners and research collaborators.

2009 Honours Project details

Dr Shelly Jeffcott & Dr Sue Evans

• Frontline perceptions of competency in the ED
• Analysing fatigue using the ANZICS registry
• Mapping medication across healthcare
• Communication during ward handovers
• Nurse workload in the Emergency Department

Dr Sue Evans & Associate Professor Chris Reid

• Impact of age on outcomes and surgical complications for patients undergoing cardiac surgery in Victorian public hospitals

Dr Bernice Redley, Dr Sue Evans & Dr Shelly Jeffcott

• Inter-professional communication and team climate in the Operating Room

Prof Jamie Cooper, Dr Alistair Nichol

• Optimal ventilation strategy of critically ill patients with lung damage

Professor Flavia Cicuttini and Dr Anita Wluka

• How does weight loss affect change in knee cartilage volume?
• Identification of factors effecting progression of knee osteoarthritis as measured by a novel magnetic resonance imaging based technique
• The effect of physical activity on knee cartilage in normal men and women

Dr Anna Peeters

• The association between severe obesity and morbidity
• Differences in trends in overweight and obesity according to socio-economic status
• Weight maintenance and mortality

Prof John McNeil and Dr Sue Evans

• Investigating in-hospital fractures as markers of quality of care

Prof Paul Myles and Dr Sue Evans

• Medication Safety

Associate Profs F Cicuttini, M de Courten, D Liew and Dr A Peeters

• Excess cardiovascular risk mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

A/Prof Maximilian de Courten, Dr Samantha Thomas, Prof Paul Komesaroff

• The layperson’s theories of causality in obesity
• Health Professionals Attitudes about Obesity

Associate Prof M de Courten and Dr E Douglas

• Photo elicitation of the obesogenic environment for adolescents

Associate Profs Max de Courten and Chris Reid

• Cardiovascular health predictors in children

Professor Michael Abramson

• The role of spirometry in managing chronic respiratory diseases in general practice (SPIRO-GP)

Dr Kathlyn Ronaldson & Prof John McNeil

• A case-control study to investigate risk factors for myocarditis with clozapine

Dr Catherine Joyce

• The role of the nurse in general practice

Dr Catherine Joyce & Prof Brian Oldenburg

• Citizens’ participation in health policy development

Dr Dianna Magliano, Dr Jonathan Shaw, Prof Bob Atkins, Dr Kevan Polkinghorne and Dr Stephen Chadban

• Development of a risk prediction algorithm to predict Chronic Kidney Disease in Australians

Prof Henry Krum, Dr Bing Wang and Dr Andrew Kompa

• Pathways and Potential Therapies in Congestive Heart Failure

Dr Anna Peeters  & A/Prof Max de Courten

• One year health effects of a pedometer-based workplace intervention

Dr Karin Leder and Dr Martha Sinclair

• Contributing to Australian recycled water guidelines: Developing Australian DALY values for waterborne pathogens

Dr Karin Leder and A/Prof Beverley Biggs

• Prevalence and management of infectious diseases and nutritional disorders in refugees and immigrants living in Melbourne

Dr Dadna Hartman and Dr Soren Blau (VIFM)

• VIFM Project 1:  Improving DNA typing of skeletal remains

Dr Dadna Hartman

• VIFM Project 2: Mitochondrial DNA typing, a useful tool for identifying skeletal remains